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Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 20
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Australia where they must save some animals from a wildfire.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Laura Horton has always been an outsider, more interested in writing, drawing, or spending time with her free-spirited family than in her fellow teens, but she is drawn to Leon, a new student, as together they explore the mysteries of her eccentric old house.
3) In too deep
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 6
Language
English
Description
Amy and Dan Cahill travel to Australia to figure out what their own parents knew about the object of their quest, but their search brings back terrible memories for Amy and endangers a secret ally.
4) Bob
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Visiting her grandmother in Australia, ten-year-old Livy is reminded of the promise she made five years before to Bob, a strange, green creature who cannot recall who or what he is.
Author
Series
Spectacular spelling bee volume 1
Language
English
Description
Terribly shy, India Wimple is brilliant at spelling and her loving family will do whatever it takes to help her compete in a televised national spelling bee in Sydney, Australia. --Provided by Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
During the fire season in Australia, a wombat allows its underground shelter to become a place of refuge for other vulnerable animals in need. Discusses Australia's devastating 2019-2020 fire season, in which many animals lost their lives or their habitats.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
137 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Lucy's great-aunt Bep comes from Holland to Adelaide, Australia, to visit, she is shocked by some of Lucy's behavior, and Lucy begins to wonder about herself. Includes a glossary of Dutch words and a recipe.
11) Snap!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Joey the kangaroo plays games with Twisker the bush mouse, Slider the snake, Prickler the echidna, Flatso the platypus, and Sly-tooth the crocodile.
Author
Series
Noni the pony volume 3
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Noni and her friends help a lost wallaby joey find his family.
13) Pie in the Sky
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Knowing very little English, eleven-year-old Jingwen feels like an alien when his family immigrates to Australia, but copes with loneliness and the loss of his father by baking elaborate cakes.
14) Window
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : all color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the events and changes in a young boy's life and in his environment, from babyhood to grownup, through wordless scenes observed from the window of his room.
Author
Series
Greetings from somewhere volume 8
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Little Simon paperback edition.
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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.
16) Toad away
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In his third adventure, Limpy the cane toad goes to the Amazon to learn the secret of living in harmony with humans.
17) Toad heaven
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Despite the opposition of Ancient Eric and Malcolm, Limpy goes on a quest to find a place where cane toads can be safe from humans and live in harmony.
18) Fly on the wall
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Henry Khoo embarks on a forbidden journey from Australia to Singapore to prove his independence to his overprotective family, while working out some problems with friends.
Author
Series
Ashbury/Brookfield books volume 4
Language
English
Description
Student essays, scholarship committee members' notes, and other writings reveal interactions between a group of modern-day students at an exclusive New South Wales high school and their strange connection to a young Irishman transported to Australia in the early 1800s.
Author
Publisher
Dawn Publications
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, music ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A counting book in rhyme presents various Australian animals and their offspring, from a mother crocodile and her "little hatchling one" to a huge father emu and his "little chicks ten." Includes related facts and activities.
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