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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Jack Gantos
Jack’s summer has hit a dead end . Old people seem to be dying faster than Miss Volker can write their obituaries, and Jack is starting to worry that it…
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Kate DiCamillo
The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined…
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Lynne Rae Perkins
This winner of the 2006 Newbery Medal is a poignant coming-of-age story about a young girl and her friends whose paths cross–and stories criss cross–over one summer. Illustrated throughout with…
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Susan Patron
The 2007 Newbery Medal winner is now in paperback. Lucky, age 10, doesn’t expect running away to be so complicated. A large cast of magnanimous surprises awaits her when she…
Laura Amy Schlitz
Inspired by an illuminated poem from 13th-century Germany, this witty, historically accurate collection–the winner of the 2008 Newbery Medal–forms an exquisite bridge to the people and places of medieval England…
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Rebecca Stead
Miranda and Sal are friends, but when Sal gets punched by a kid for no apparent reason, he shuts Miranda out of his life. Then she finds a mysterious note…
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Neil Gaiman
Stunningly illustrated by Chris Riddell, who brings the ghouls, ghosts and hero wonderfully to life in this fantastic ghost adventure story, laced with menace and humour
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