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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Middle-schooler Louisa wants to spend the summer practicing violin for a place in the youth symphony, but is instead sent to the Tasmanian rainforest camp of her Australian relatives. There she learns that her family secretly protects the last of the supposedly extinct Tasmanian tigers. When an encroaching mining operation threatens the hidden sanctuary, Louisa realizes her music can help.
Author
Series
Magic School Bus a science chapter book volume 10
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Ms. Frizzle's class travels to Australia to search for the kookaburra, encountering kangaroos and Tasmanian devils along the way.
4) Window
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the events and changes in a young boy's life and in his environment, from babyhood to grownup, through wordless scenes observed from the window of his room.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 29
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton is going on another adventure to Australia with his friends Petunia and her brother Wolfie.
6) When we wake
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In 2027, sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl--playing the guitar, falling in love, and protesting the wrongs of the world with her friends. But then Tegan dies, waking up 100 years in the future as the unknowing first government guinea pig to be cryogenically frozen and successfully revived. Appalling secrets about her new world come to light, and Tegan must choose to either keep her head down or fight for a better future"--
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"An adventure down under! Moldy mozzarella! A flock of sheep at Nicky's family's Australian ranch was losing all its wool, and no one knew why. Nicky and her friends the Thea Sisters headed to Australia and set off on a tour of the whole country in search of clues. What happened next turned out to be a truly memorable Outback adventure!"--P. [4] of cover.
8) Possum magic
Author
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
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.
13) In the jungle
Author
Series
Andrew lost volume 15
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Lost in an Australian rainforest, Andrew, Judy, and Thudd the robot, who are still the size of insects, must evade Rhinoceros beetles, tarantulas, flesh-eating plants, and a host of other threats as they make their way toward the village where Uncle Al will meet them.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
School is out for the summer, and Max and Marla are off to Australia! Max has always wanted to see koalas, after all. He makes sure to pack his camera for the trip, so that he can capture every moment and remember this vacation. Off they head by air and by sea, with Max looking for just the perfect shot along the way. But when he keeps missing the amazing sights while focusing his lens, Marla knows that she needs to step in. In this final story in...
16) Bob
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
17) The bone sparrow
Author
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"--
18) In the desert
Author
Series
Andrew lost volume 17
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
While in the Australian desert, ant-sized Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot are carried away by a dust-devil and face many dangerous creatures, from a flock of wild parakeets to a Perenti lizard, as they try to make their way back to Uncle Al.
20) The assault
Author
Series
Recon team angel volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In the year 2030, six teens who have been modified to look like the aliens who are battling for control of Earth go behind enemy lines and discover a shocking, secret alien project.
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