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Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 20
Formats
Description
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Australia where they must save some animals from a wildfire.
5) Foxspell
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
219 p. ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Tod's mystical links with a spirit, half man and half fox, and with the natural world surrounding his grandmother's house in the Australian countryside challenge his attempt to adjust to the real world.
Author
Series
Secret agent Jack Stalwart volume 2
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
110 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Secret agent Jack Stalwart searches for a diver missing from the Great Barrier Reef and a treasure that has vanished from the wreck of the HMS Pandora while trying to defeat a deadly band of pirates.
7) Velocity
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Cassica and Shiara have grown up in Coppermouth, a dust choked town in the Outback, but now they hope to use their skills as race driver and mechanic to take on the Widowmaker, an off-road rally through some of the most dangerous places on Earth, to win fame and fortune--provided they survive the race.
8) On the run
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Ben, who aspires to be a police officer, struggles to do the right thing when his parents suddenly take him and his little sister "on vacation," and he learns they took a large amount of money that was mistakenly deposited in their bank account.
9) Bilby moon
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Each night when Little Bilby leaves her burrow, she looks up to greet the moon. And each night the moon looks down and smiles. But then one night the moon doesn't smile. A piece of the moon is missing. Little Bilby's quest for the missing moon takes her on a journey of discovery and wonder.
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 21
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
123 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Description
Your Uncle Gilroy has found an amulet that unlocks the mystery of an ancient civilization in the Australian desert and invites you to join the archaeological dig. But is he in danger? Do you accept help from a stranger claiming to work for your uncle? How will you plan to escape from your kidnappers? Was that UFO you saw real?
11) Jasper Jones
Author
Description
A Michael L. Printz Honor Book
Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress, Charlie follows him into the night.
Jasper takes him to his secret glade, where Charlie witnesses Jasper's horrible discovery. With his secret...
Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress, Charlie follows him into the night.
Jasper takes him to his secret glade, where Charlie witnesses Jasper's horrible discovery. With his secret...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
327 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Seventeen-year-old Delilah Green is doing her best to deal with a chaotic life--she is running the family café, The Flywheel, by herself because her father is on a vacation trying to get over his wife deserting him; she is getting flack at school because she is a lesbian, and one of the "in-girls" has started to come on to her, and she is hopelessly attracted to a girl named Rosa, who dances the flamenco outside the café every evening.
13) Ready to dream
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
While drawing pictures of the animals she sees on her trip to Australia, a young girl named Ally meets Pauline, an aborigine woman and fellow artist, from whom Ally learns that art is not always created with just paper and paints, and that mistakes are actually happy accidents.
Author
Series
Tomorrow series volume 1
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive.
Author
Pub. Date
p2000
Description
In a dying country town lives a young man fighting the future, a young man fighting the past, and a long-lost animal that can teach them both the art of survival. 'The animal swerved into the bracken, its smooth long tail slipping away. Satchel listened a minute for any sign of it but it was gone ... He wondered what its name had been, who had owned it, what hard history had left it alone here, at the foot of the hanging volcano.' A shimmering, ultimately...
16) Kersplatypus
Author
Formats
Description
"When a strange little creature appears out of nowhere after the big rains, Australian animals wonder what in the world he could possibly be..."--Jacket.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Follows three teens who struggle with hardscrabble realities, from Luke, who works at the local supermarket and tries to stay out of trouble; to Bongo, who drinks to avoid his abusive family; to Casey, who longs to escape her controlling father.
18) The gift stone
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
Jean, who lives underground in an Australian opal mining town, finds a precious stone large enough to allow her to move into a proper house with her grandparents.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When her parents and the other quiet, shy wombats of the Northern Forest are captured by the traitorous, carnivorous Tassie devils, Lola Budge, a talkative, adventure-seeking young wombat, embarks on a rescue mission, joined by a swamp water rat and a baby penguin.
20) While we run
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"It's the year 2128, and Tegan Oglietti, the world's first successfully revived cryonics patient, and her maybe-boyfriend, Abdi Taalib, are on the run from the government and from a dangerous rebel group. When they uncover shocking new information about the cryonics program, they are faced with an impossible decision that will put thousands of lives in their hands"--
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