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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Kira teams up with Evie, a student at the animal sanctuary to track down the paradise parrot--a bird thought to be extinct--and prove that it still exists. While they're trying to observe the elusive bird, bushfires threaten to wipe out the sanctuary and the parrot's habitat. There's no choice but to evacuate all the animals, which is a huge task even without trying to track down a missing baby wallaby. As the bushfires rage out of control, Kira makes...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Kira Bailey is living her dream: Cuddling koalas and bottle-feeding baby kangaroos. Kira and her mom are spending the summer at a wildlife sanctuary in Australia helping her aunt Mamie, a veterinarian, care for the animals. When Kira falls in love with an orphaned koala joey, her joy is complete--until a health emergency pulls Aunt Mamie away. Suddenly Kira can't seem to do anything right. She's put the wombats and her beloved koala joey in danger,...
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Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 8
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
When his brother uses him as a boomerang on a beach near the Great Barrier Reef, the wind takes Flat Stanley halfway across Australia to the Outback.
4) Bob
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Visiting her grandmother in Australia, Livy, ten, is reminded of the promise she made five years before to Bob, a strange, green creature who cannot recall who or what he is.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Michael's parents are leaders of a new anti-immigrant political party called Aussie Values which is trying to halt the flood of refugees from the Middle East; Mina fled Afghanistan with her family ten years ago, and just wants to concentrate on fitting in and getting into college--but the mutual attraction they feel demands that they come to terms with their family's concerns and decide where they stand in the ugly anti-Muslim politics of the time.
Michael...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 20
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Jack and Annie are whisked away to Australia where they try to help some baby animals escape from a forest fire.
7) Stolen
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Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is abducted while on vacation with her parents and taken to the Australian outback, where she soon realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed.
10) On the run
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Pub. Date
2015.
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.
11) Bushfire!
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Bindi wildlife adventures volume 3
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While on an early morning walk, Bindi and her friend Rosie see the smoke from a terrible bushfire, so they rush to the Australian Wildlife Hospital to help care for the animals that were trapped in the fire.
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Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 10
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A gun shot rings out as Cal hides from his stalkers - two old bounty hunters and their savage dog, Sniffer. The hostile desert seems determined to become Cal's final resting place. Had Kelvin spared his life for nothing? Back in the city, an impossible job looms. To break into Orlana's safe at Zurich Bank, Cal needs Boges to make a perfect copy of her fingerprint ... and they need her PIN. But will stealing from Orlana force her into a lethal alliance...
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Greetings from somewhere volume 8
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
With help from their cousin Harry, eight-year-old twins Ella and Ethan discover who is illegally taking coral from the reefs near their aunt and uncle's beach house on the shore of Australia's Coral Sea.
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This charming story of a young boy Benny and his lizard Chomper find themselves taking a private plane to Australia to meet Chomper's family. They soon learn lessons about friendship and forgiveness when a Kangaroo steals their map that will lead them to Chomper's family. Their adventure continues when they finally find Uncle Herman, as they discover life down under.
17) A killing frost
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Tomorrow series volume 3
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Ellie and her friends are going on the offensive now, attacking the enemy on land and water. To sabotage the containersip at Cobbler's Bay, they'll need stealth and a very big explosion.
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Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 2
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"An adventure down under! Moldy mozzarella! A flock of sheep at Nicky's family's Australian ranch was losing all its wool, and no one knew why. Nicky and her friends the Thea Sisters headed to Australia and set off on a tour of the whole country in serch of clues. What happened next turned out to be a truly memorable outback adventure!" -- P. [4] of cover.
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Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 7
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How can Cal find out more about Piers Ormond's will if he is stuck on a fishing boat after becoming indebted to the captain. If he can find his great-aunt Millicent he may have a better chance of finding the will. But should he expose another relative to danger?