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Best babysitters ever volume 2
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Being a boss isn't all it's cracked up to be in the second book of the Best Babysitters Ever series. Perfect for fans of Rachel Vail and Sarah Mlynowski.
Just when Malia, Dot, and Bree (aka the Best Babysitters Ever) corner the Playa Del Mar babysitting market, their lives get even busier. Malia's evil older sister ropes her into a thankless internship. Dot must win the science fair. And Bree's brand new cat turns out to be a holy terror. Meow! Malia...
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Friendship list volume 3
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Fans of Lauren Myracle and Rachel Renee Russo's Dork Diaries will adore the third book in this laugh-out-loud series about two BFFs who master middle school with a list of thirteen goals they MUST achieve before their first summer apart.
With winter break almost over and seventh grade spinning beyond their control, best friends Kaylan and Ari write a new list of 13 resolutions to make the New Year, middle school, and their friendship even more amazing...
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The first new book about Poppy in more than ten years, from Newbery Medal-winning author Avi with illustrations throughout by Caldecott Medal-winning artist Brian Floca.
Ragweed and Poppy is one of the "10 Top Middle-Grade Summer Reads," according to Kirkus Reviews!
How did Ragweed and Poppy meet and become friends? This book tells their hilarious story! Adventurous golden mouse Ragweed is on a freight train leaving the city of Amperville. On his...
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It's school holidays but Archie and Jess's mum has to go to work at the tV studio. Problem is, children have been banned from the studio, but there isn't anywhere else for Archie and Jess to go. Can they get through the day without being sprung by the big, burly security guard? And what's going to happen when they are discovered on the set of the hit, A PLACE LIKE OURS, pretending to be extras? A hilarious chapter novel for young readers by one of...
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Benjamin Roy has finally learnt to control his infrared vision and super-strength, so he's sure his undead life is about to get easier. But, being a zombie isn't all grave-dirt and brains. There's bad stuff too.
Like the creepy teacher at school watching his every move.
And, the dangerous secret haunting his best friend.
Then things really get spooky, when Ben's annoying brother goes missing.
Will Ben find him in time?
Or, will he stumble across...
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Fifteen-year-old Yancy runs away from home on the night his brother viciously attacks his horse, Shy. With just a backpack, a flashlight, his horse, and a journal, Yancy takes to the California desert on a journey of self-discovery. There he will learn the hardships of being homeless, experience his first kiss, and meet a Mexican laborer, Tavo, who has a thing or two to teach him about life and love.
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This beautifully illustrated children's story is about how Tom Goode rescues an old mower from Mr Pickle's junk yard and saves him from being thrown out onto the scrap heap. With the help of Mr Pickle, Mervin works again! But Mervin is no ordinary mower because he can magically talk, but only to Tom, who also seems to be the only person who can start Mervin. Because Mervin can talk, Tom decides to call him Mervin the Magic Mower. This is the first...
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Fearless historian and adventurer, Hiram Bingham risks all and battles storms, fire, Condors, cannibals and treacherous cliffs on his quest to find the lost city of Machu Picchu. this gripping new adventure should come with a warning for the faint-hearted. It's history, but not as we know it.
10) Hello God
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Sometimes in life there is just no answer to the questions we ask Kate is twelve years old, and chats to God about everything - her parents and their new baby, her friends, getting used to her new glasses, even about the ants who drown in the puddles in her driveway. If God exists, why doesn't he teach ants to swim? Kate also talks to God about Stephanie, the new girl in her class. Stephanie isn't the sort of girl Kate is usually friends with; she's...
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Do you like to fly to the moons of Saturn or visit talking wombats Do you like to daydream Do you eat chocolate Have you ever wondered how your favourite authors create the fantastic worlds their characters inhabit And have you ever wanted to write yourself Jackie French, one of Australia's most popular and renowned children's authors, helps you to unleash the full power of your creative imagination. Everything is covered from how not to write the...
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When the only way of being good is being bad. When the only way of being good is being bad. Jonty thinks he's attending a regular school, but he can't figure out why all his classmates are turning into well-behaved, brilliant students. When the perfect school turns into a perfect nightmare, no one is safe from the world's cleverest students. With two unlikely friends, Jonty sets about exposing the principal's dastardly plan, but will they just become...
13) Captain Wetbeard
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When Emily and Daniel's parents send them on a rollicking pirate adventure holiday things go horribly wrong. there's something very weird about Captain Wetbeard's ship! A bald, farting parrot, a diet of chocolate-coated shrimps, plank-walking, these weren't in the holiday brochure!
14) Turning Pointes
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From 'Dancing with the Stars' winner Emma Freedman, a coming-of-age story that draws on Emma's childhood dance experience.
Ages: 9+
April Franklin is 13 years of age and has just started high school. April has also been dancing half her life and while she loves ballet, she's not sure if classical is right for her, particularly since she doesn't have the perfect ballet body - and of course all of the mean girls at her ballet school do ...
There are,...
15) So Feral!
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Josh is trying to swallow and chew at the same time. It's dodgy. Rivers of green are gushing down his chin...As bad as it is for Josh, it is worse for Finn. He has started to froth. Saliva foams from the corners of his mouth, spume slides from his nose, his eyes gush. His body is blistered with sweat. He's moaning incoherently. I catch the words dash of chili as he goes down. He burps bubble slips out. And then, comes the fountain. Like a drilling...
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Life is never easy for Archie Roach, but some days it gets downright perplexing. Life is never easy for Archie Roach, but some days it gets downright perplexing. He's not much good at anything, he's got the meanest mum in the whole universe and now some little kid wants him to save his granddad's house, all because he read about Archie winning a fishing competition. And, as if that wasn't enough, a total maniac psycho tagger's moved into town. The...
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This long-established and well-loved classic by renowned author Elsie Locke was first published in 1965, and now returns to print as a Collins Modern New Zealand Classic. The year is 1859 and the Small family arrives in the Canterbury colony without a penny to their name. Mother and six children have a hard beginning to their new life, all the more since they are runaways from a cruel father and husband in Australia. But, there are adventures ahead...this...
18) So Festy!
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Four new smelly and gross stories to rot your socks, PLUS the added extra of some particularly putrid poems! If you've ever wondered what happens in a Fart Factory or what if feels like to be stuck in a fridge, now's your chance to find out. More seriously revolting stories to curdle your stomach and addle your brain. Ages 8+
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An action-packed adventure story from master storyteller Des Hunt. It's the school holidays and Zac thinks he might go crazy with boredom. He's living in exile with his disgraced father, on the remote Terawhiti Station on Wellington's wild southwest coast. Then Zac and his dad witness a boat sink during a storm. Investigating further, Zac finds a set of unusual animal prints on the beach. Whose boat is it? And, what creature could have made the prints?
Soon...
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Who hasn't looked in the mirror and not liked what they saw?
The author, Thomasina Farrell, has a particular passion for disability and mental health work and has recognized the nearly universal nature of a lack of self-worth.
It is the aim of this book to heighten people's ability to recover and thrive if they open themselves to access assistance.
The story is enhanced by Malcolm Richards' brilliant, emotive illustrations and the book can be enjoyed...
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