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The Wave ® will be published by Rigby for their Whole Child
Steve is on holiday in another country and just wants to enjoy himself. Cheap computer and swimming are on his mind. But disaster strikes and Steve is forced to make a change. Can he look past his own urgent trouble and think about others too?
Rigby Australia
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Cat Mountain ® will be published Penguin Australia early in the 2006.
From the moment Catherine stepped down from the clunky bus she is in trouble. And every single step she takes on the haunting mountain her danger increases - but she does not know.
She had some to the rugged Barrington Tops to have a holiday with Gran in her lonely 'Mud Hut', and she can see her waving on the mountain as she stepped from the bus.
All she has to climb up to her, no worries at all...
¤ Louis Braille audio.
'Baillie writes a taut thriller, but his story is equally about growing confidence and strength, without being too easy. Good, strong stuff.' - Age
'Expert imagery recreates the Australian bush and increases the tension while the authentic dialogue never slows the pace of this fast moving adventure. A thrilling tale...' - Magpies
Magpies Picks of 2006
Awards: CBCA Notable Book. Cat's Mountain is in Qld's State Reader’s Cup
On the list of Premier's Reading Challenge (Vic) in 06.
Penguin Australia
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Castles with Caroline Magerl's illustrations will be released be Penguin/Viking Australia in August.
One day a Princess came to the beach.
A wondrous castle.
All the days the castle rang with music and laughter.
But one day a rotten Pirate arrived...
'The fast and furious action is brilliantly described in Baillie's lyrical prose which is ably extended by
Magerl's flights of fancy in vivid watercolour and crayon. Together story and pictures sweep along
in swirls of colour, visual and verbal. The effect is superb.' - Magpies
Magpies Picks of 2005
Awards: White Ravens of International Children’s and Youth Literature (IYL), CBCA Notable Book.
On the list of Premier's Reading Challenge (Vic) in 06.
Penguin/Viking,Australia
Caroline Magerl
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Little Brother It's Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge are in power. Vithy has lost everyone and everything he loved - except his older brother. They've escaped from execution, but they are separated and Vithy is alone to 'follow the lines', Mang's fleeting instruction. Which lines?
Also in, UK, US, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Denmark.
Awards: Short list for Guardian Award; Highly Commended for CBCA Book of Year; US: American Bookseller's Pick of Lists; CBC's Notable Children's Trade Book in Social Studies; Bank Street Children's Book of Year.
On the list of Premier's Reading Challenge (NSW,Vic,SA) in 06.
Penguin Australia
Photos of Little Brother
Is this book haunted by Hobbits?
Have a look at Songman on Questions page.
Songman ® Yukawa sails from his tribal lands in northern Australia across pirate-infested seas to a dagger-shaped island where East and West mix and clash. On this island there are some small furtive hunters, called Ghost People... Published by Puffin Australia, also in UK, Germany
Awards: Vic Premier's Awards: Alan Marshall Diabetes Prize for Children's Lit.
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Riding With Thunderbolt - The Diary of Ben Cross, part of Scholastic's My Story series.
Ben Cross was looking for adventure when he ran away from his brutal uncle.
But he found much more when he joined the bushranger Thunderbolt.
He becomes the "cockatoo," - the lookout - of the bushranger's gang as they raid cattle stations, inns, stores and mail coaches.
But at the end of a year of dramatic rescue, running, hiding and desperate shootouts both Ben and Thunderbolt know that they must give up the bushranging life.
If they can.
Scholastic Australia
Photos of Thunderbolt
On the list of Premier's Reading Challenge (NSW,Vic) in 06.
Awards: SA Kanga short-listed.
Won the 2005 NSW Premier's Young People's History Prize
The judges said: This is a well-written and entertaining story
of a young boy who, in 1865, joins the bushranger Frederick Ward, alias Captain Thunderbolt, his half-Aboriginal wife Mary Ann and, ultimately, their three children.
Ben becomes the cockatoo, or lookout, for Thunderbolt's gang in a series of robberies and skirmishes with the law ranging over northern NSW.
The diary provides exciting and riveting reading, with lots of action, good clear
descriptive passages, interesting characters and many dilemmas for Ben to work through - dilemmas that still have resonance for
today's world: loyalty versus integrity, honesty versus the need to provide for family and friends, fairness versus deceit.
DragonQuest Illustrated by Wayne Harris, has been released again by Scholastic.
A creaky knight rides into a boy's reading and demands he help to track down the last dragon. Scholastic Australia, Korea.
Awards: Short listed for CBCA Picture Book of Year, for NSW Premier's Literary Awards
On the list of Premier's Reading Challenge (NSW,Vic,SA) in 06.
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My Story
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