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Author
Series
Spectacular spelling bee volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2018]
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.
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 8
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
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.
23) On the run
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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.
25) Bob
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
27) Stolen
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
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.
28) Possum magic
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Grandma Poss's magic turns Hush invisible, the two possums take a culinary tour of Australia to find the food that will make her visible once more.
Author
Publisher
Dawn Publications
Pub. Date
[2011]
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.
32) Cicada summer
Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death, Eloise and her father move in with her grandmother, where Eloise discovers hidden secrets.
Author
Series
Bindi wildlife adventures volume 5
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Bindi takes a pair of twins whale-watching and they see an oil spill which threatens the whales. Includes animal facts about whales.
35) Genius squad
Author
Series
Evil genius books volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
After the Axis Institute is blown up, fifteen-year-old Cadell Piggot is unhappily stuck in foster care with constant police surveillance to protect him from the evil Prosper English until he gets an offer to join a mysterious group called Genius Squad.
Author
Series
Grandfather and Roo volume 2
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A series of letters from Grandfather reveal his adventures in Australia with the remarkable little dog Roo, as he seeks his long-lost older brother, Uncle Vincent, who went there to find gold when he was seventeen.
Author
Series
Sea keepers volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this splashy new Sea Keeper tale, something's fishy at a Down Under talent show and the Sea Keepers are called in to help in this third installment in the series.
39) The Bone Sparrow
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Subhi's contained world as a refugee in an Australian permanent detention center rapidly expands when Jimmie arrives on the other side of the fence and asks him to read her late mother's stories to her"--
Author
Series
Ashbury/Brookfield books volume 4
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2010.
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.
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