Bolinda Audio (Firm)
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A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book, a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty-first birthday they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and with very little to go on, "Nell" sets out on a journey to England to try to...
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Code name Verity volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
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In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
4) Toad Rage
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Toad rage books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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Gr 3-6-Young Limpy just can't figure out why humans hate his kind so much that they gleefully squash cane toads flat on the road every chance they get. Determined to be a goodwill ambassador, he sets off to change people's minds, but meets with nothing but vilification until he and his hapless cousin Goliath hitch a truck to the city and become involved in the hoopla surrounding a major athletic competition, The Games. Humor, both outrageously broad...
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"Sheldon Horowitz -- widowed, impatient, impertinent -- has grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in with his granddaughter, Rhea, and her new husband, Lars, in Norway -- a country of blue and ice with one thousand Jews, not one of them a former Marine sniper in the Korean War turned watch repairman. Not until now, anyway. Home alone one morning, Sheldon witnesses a dispute between the woman who lives upstairs and an agressive stranger. ...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
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Twelve-year-old Andrej, nine-year-old Tomas, and their baby sister Wilma flee their Romany encampment when it is attacked by Germans during World War II, and in an abandoned town they find a zoo where the animals tell their stories, helping the children understand what has become of their lives and what it means to be free.
7) Water wings
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[2012], p2003
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Pearl has a secret hidden in the family freezer, but Gran's dark secrets are buried much deeper. Pearl, Gran and Winston the guinea pig face some tough truths in this brilliant, funny and moving novel.
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p2007
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"The Persimmon Tree is unashamedly a love story. I've always wanted to write one but until now have been afraid to do so. The reason is simple enough: most men in my experience have very little idea of what really goes on in a woman's heart or head. Now, at the age of 74, I just might know enough and have sufficient courage to write on the subject - the way of a man with a woman, of a woman with a man. My story is set in the Pacific, although not...
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[2015], p2001
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Thommo and ten of his war mates develop physical and mental problems on their return to Australia. Angry at their hostile reception, they recruit an ex-Viet Cong with "special skills" and plan their revenge, but in real life, they're too screwed up to put up a fight. The team is transformed when Wendy, a woman whose baby needs a bone-marrow transplant, moulds them into a viable fighting unit.
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[2016]
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Robust country girl Emily Flanaghan and her country music star brother, Sam, have been raised in the rugged Dargo High Plains by their mountain cattleman father, Rod, but despite the beauty of their High Country heritage, all of them are lost in life. Emily, buried in the ordinariness of suburban motherhood, misses her mountains and is locked in an unhappy marriage to her wayward truckie husband, Clancy. In the city, Sam is being consumed in a world...
11) Book of the dead
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[2016]
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Massive sinkholes are opening across the country--each larger and deeper than the previous one. First the family pets go missing, and anyone living near one of the pits is reporting strange phenomena--the vibrations, sulphurous odours and strange sounds rising up from the stygian depths. Then come the reports of horrifying things' rising from the darkness. When the people start disappearing the government is forced to act. A team is sent in to explore...
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[2011], p2010
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Join Simon "Specky" Magee, the star of the Under 14s Aussie Rules Football team, the Booyong High Lions, in this collection of two fantastic Specky adventures. Specky Magee & the great footy contest: Specky is a true champion in the making, but is he good enough to win the Great Footy Contest? Specky Magee & the season of champions: Specky Magee finds out why there's more to being a champion than just being a legend on the field.