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Thomson, Sarah L.

Summary: 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THO

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THO

Marr, Shirley

Summary: Rebecca Stead's The List of Things That Will Not Change gets a "Space Oddity" sci-fi twist in this moving middle grade novel about one boy's journey to go back in time to prevent his parents' divorce. The present is the last place James wants to be. Since his parents have separated, he's been living two different lives and neither of them add up to the great one he used to have. He thinks about...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAR

McKinty, Adrian

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: "After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCK

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCK

Cooper, Tea

Summary: "What connects a botanical illustration of a butterfly with a missing baby and an enigma fifty years in the making? A twisty historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022

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Bryant, Megan E.

Summary: Sofia and Sam meet Kirra, an indigenous Australian musician who has arrived to play a concert at the community center. But Kirra lost one of her musical instruments in Australia before flying to Compass Court. Sofia and Sam hop on their ruby-red scooter and are transported to Australia. Will they find the instrument in time for the concert?

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Sam Bryant

Cooper, Tea

Summary: "What connects a botanical illustration of a butterfly with a missing baby and an enigma fifty years in the making? A twisty historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 0000

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Silvey, Craig

Summary: Eleven-year-old Annie trains her dog Runt to participate in an Agility Course Grand Championship in an effort to save her family farm.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SIL

Nix, Garth

Summary: Ten-year-old prodigy Eila found an alien object that allows her to control peoples' minds (for their own good, of course), and it is up to her older brother, Kim, to save her--and to save the world from her.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press

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Lim, Rebecca

Summary: "Wen Zhou is a first-generation daughter of Chinese migrant parents. She has high expectations from her parents to succeed in school, especially her father, whose strict rules leave her feeling trapped. She dreams of creating a future for herself more satisfying than the one her parents expect her to lead. Then she befriends a boy named Henry who is also a first generation immigrant. He is the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LIM

Downes, Anna

Summary: "Katy Sweeney is determined to find her sister. A year earlier, just three weeks into a solo vanlife trip, free-spirited Phoebe vanished without a trace on Western Australia's remote and achingly beautiful Coral Coast. With no witnesses, no leads, and no DNA evidence, the case has gone cold. But Katy refuses to give up. Using Phoebe's social media accounts as a map, Katy starts to retrace her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024

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Burr, Shelley

4 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "Gemma Guillory has lived in the Australian Outback enclave of Rainier her entire life. She knows the tiny, red-dust town's ins and outs by heart, knows the people like they are her family, their quirks as if they were her own. She also knows her once charming town is now remembered for one reason and one reason only: three innocent people died there at the hands of a serial killer. The last...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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Keneally, Thomas

Summary: Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEN

Manning, Kirsty

Summary: In a novel based on a true story of clandestine courage in World War II, prisoners of war risk their lives to secure evidence of Nazi atrocities.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MAN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAN

Moriarty, Liane

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine her surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital to find out that she's getting divorced, has three kids, and is actually thirty-nine. Now Alice must reconstruct a lost decade -- and try to reconstruct her life. She has to figure out why her sister hardly...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press 2015

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Arnott, Robbie

Summary: A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, Charlotte who promptly runs for her life. A water rat swims upriver in quest of the cloud god. A fisherman named Karl hunts for tuna in partnership with a seal. And a father takes form from fire. The answers to these riddles are to be found in this tale of grief and love and the bonds of family,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Books 2019

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARN

Wilde, Rhiannon

Summary: Despite their differences, soon to be eighteen-year-olds Henry Hamlet and Lennon Crane have been best friends for most of their lives, but in their senior year at Northolm Grammar School for Boys in Brisbane, Australia, Henry realizes he is in love with Len.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WIL

Fields-Schneider, Penny

Summary: "Jack has been praised all his life for his extraordinary artistic talent and is rarely seen without his sketchpad. However, in Jack's world art is considered a hobby - men are expected to support their families with steady jobs offering solid prospects for advancement. Future responsibilities are far from Jack's thoughts, however, as he departs Australian shores for a six-month holiday...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PFS 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIE

Germein, Katrina

Summary: Captain Dad and his crew are having a day at the beach, and of course Dad is bringing his treasure trove of jokes. Whether it's a ship he bought on sail or an earring that costs one buccaneer, a day with Dad is shore to be hilarious! At least he seems to think so.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GER

Summary: "Bluey and her family are playing Swim School! But their swimming lessons are proving to be difficult. Can Mum, Dad, and Bingo pass without dobbing on each other?"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024

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Bluey

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Summary: Everyone loves Bandit, but especially Bluey and Bingo! He's always making up funny games, playing Daddy Robot, and taking them on exciting adventures. This is the perfect book to celebrate your dad on Father's Day, or any day, and share what makes him awesome!

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

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Bluey

Summary: Discover all of Chilli's mum skills from playing Grannies, dancing, and taking care of Bluey and Bingo. She even makes brushing their teeth and fur fun in this adorable and hilarious book. And, most importantly, Mum teaches them that the world is a magical place. This is the perfect book to celebrate Mom on Mother's Day, or any day!

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BLU

Summary: "Join Bluey and Bingo at their fancy restaurant and learn how to make lots of yummy recipes--for real life"--OCLC.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Food Bluey

Fields-Schneider, Penny

Summary: Searching for Sofia is the third book in the Portraits in Blue Series. In Book One: The Sun Rose in Paris, and Book Two: Shattered Dreams we accompany Jack Tomlinson's foray into the world of artists in the early twentieth century, and his experiences in Paris, Spain and living in an artist's retreat in Australia. In Searching for Sofia, his story continues. Having experienced tragedy beyond...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PFS 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIE

Summary: Bluey, Bingo, and Dad head to the pool. What could go wrong? Find out in this beautiful picture book adventure.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

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