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Annie Lumsden, The Girl from the Sea by David Almond

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A magical story about finding your identity from one of the most acclaimed storytellers of his generation, richly illustrated in full colour by an internationally renowned artist. My mother says that all things can be turned to tales. I thought she meant tales like fish tails, but I was wrong. She mean ...Show more

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Trial of Heroes: (Super Sidekicks #3) by Gavin Aung Than

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Category: Action & Adventure

The Super Sidekicks just saved the world and now they've been invited to join H.E.R.O. - the Heroic Earth Righteousness Organisation - an exclusive club for the planet's most famous superheroes. But before they can become members, the team must pass the hardest challenge in the universe, a test so scary ...Show more

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There's No Such Thing by Heidi McKinnon

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Category: Picture Books

A funny, warm and reassuring story from the internationally acclaimed creator of I Just Ate My Friend and Baz & Benz. Bear can't sleep. Did you hear that? Did you feel that? What was it? It wasn't a hungry giant or a blood-sucking spider or a fire-breathing dragon because there is NO SUCH THING… Is there? ...Show more

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Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy

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Category: Picture Books

Little Mabel blew a bubble and it caused a lot of trouble... Such a lot of bubble trouble in a bibble-bobble way. For it broke away from Mabel as it bobbed across the table, Where it bobbled over Baby, and it wafted him away. When little Mabel's bubble gets away from her, it's her baby brother who gets ...Show more

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Vango (#1 PB) by Timothee de Fombelle

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Category: Middle Fiction (8-12) | Series: Vango

Raised by a strange nanny in Sicily, Vango grows up with one friend, a priest Zefiro, who lives in a monastery hidden from sight. On reaching adulthood, Vango decides to follow in Zefiro's steps, but at the moment he is taking his holy orders at Notre Dame in Paris, he is falsely accused of a crime and ...Show more

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The Watcher's Test: DeadEndia #1 by Hamish Steele

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Category: Fantasy/Sci Fi

Barney and his best friend Norma are just trying to get by and keep their jobs, but working at the Dead End theme park also means battling demonic forces, time traveling wizards, and scariest of all--their love lives Follow the lives of this diverse group of employees of a haunted house, which may ...Show more

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The Book of Lost Things (Illustrated Edition) by John Connolly

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Category: Middle Fiction (8-12)

This illustrated edition includes two new short stories - Cinderella, A Version and The Rat King, the latter introducing the Crooked Man who is central to the world of The Book of Lost Things - and an afterword from the author. 'Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother ...' As twelve-year-o ...Show more

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The Princess and the Pony by Kate Beaton

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Category: Picture Books

Introducing Kate Beaton, a major new picture book talent, and author/illustrator of #1 New York Times bestseller Hark A Vagrant Princess Pinecone knows exactly what she wants for her birthday this year. A BIG horse. A STRONG horse. A horse fit for a WARRIOR PRINCESS But when the day arrives, she doesn ...Show more

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The Red Tree by Shaun Tan

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Category: Picture Books

A small child awakes to find blackened leaves falling from her bedroom ceiling, threatening to quietly overwhelm her. 'Sometimes you wake up with nothing to look forward to...' As she wanders around a world that is complex, puzzling and alienating, she is overtaken by a myriad of feelings. Just as it se ...Show more

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Shy Ones by Simona Ciraolo

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Category: Picture Books

He's not the type to stand out. In fact, unless you were looking for him, you wouldn't know he was missing at all. But you know us, the shy ones, we can always spot one another. This delicate picture book about a quiet little octopus that keeps to himself in a school of lively fish explores the topi ...Show more

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I, Cosmo by Carlie Sorosiak

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Category: Junior Fiction (5-9)

A golden retriever narrates a hilarious, heart-tugging tale of a dog and his humans as he tries to keep his family together while everything around them falls apart. Ever since Cosmo became a big brother to Max ten years ago, he's known what his job was: to protect his boy and make him happy. Through ma ...Show more

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I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

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Category: Young Adult Fiction

The New York Times Bestselling story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, Nicola Yoon, Jonathan Tropper, Emma Straub, and Rainbow Rowell "We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story." At f ...Show more

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Annie Lumsden, The Girl from the Sea by David Almond

$18.99 AUD

Trial of Heroes: (Super Sidekicks #3) by Gavin Aung Than