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Calum The Chameleon Book Review Cover

Calum the Chameleon

Calum the Chameleon is off on an adventure around the world to different ecosystems. He invites young readers along to .....

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Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody Book Review Cover

Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

Zeke is surprised to be made a hall monitor at his school along with his friend Daniel. But Principal Wombat .....

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Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody (2) The Hat of Great Importance

Daniel, Zeke, & Alicia are the best of friends. They are in school together and love each other’s company. They .....

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The Clackity Book Review Cover

The Clackity

Evie doesn’t have many rules to follow, but one of them is to stay away from the town abattoir. Her .....

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We Fell Apart Book Review Cover

We Fell Apart

Matilda has only ever known her “family of two” including her mum and herself. They have moved around a lot, .....

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The Lone Husky Book Review Cover

The Lone Husky

April now lives in the Arctic with her dad, and his partner Maria at their friend’s hotel in Svalbard. Her .....

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The Grumpy Mole Gets a Digger Book Review Cover

The Once Grumpy Mole Gets A Digger

Now that Grumpy Mole is no longer grumpy, (see the 1st book) he has invited all his new friends to .....

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Pipi and Pou and the Shadow Below Book Review Cover

Pipi and Pou (7) and the Shadow Below

Pipi and Pou are surprised by their Nana when she wakes from a dream. She’s received another call for help .....

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Pipi and Pou (8) and the Haunted Forest Book Review Cover

Pipi and Pou (8) and the Haunted Forest

Pipi is a bit miffed about school sports. She loves to compete and has many certificates to show for it, .....

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Millicent Quibb - The Secret of the Purple Pearl Book Review Cover

The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science (2) Secrets of the Purple ­Pearl

The three Porch sisters now reside in a basement prison chamber in The School for Failures, in Austria. This school .....

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Rory Sparkes and the Elephant in the Room Book Review Cover

Rory Sparkes (1) and the Elephant in the Room

Rory is quite old now, but he has lots of fun tales to tell, and his first one is all .....

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Once A Villain Book Review Cover

Only A Monster (3) Once A Villain

Joan finds herself in a world where monsters rule and humans are used for monster’s time travel whims and all .....

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Pirate Academy (1) New Kid on Deck Book Review Cover

Pirate Academy (1) New Kid on Deck

Jacoby Blunt and Jasmine Peacock are students at an exclusive school for children who want to follow in their famous .....

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Funny Kid (14) Seriously Soccer Book Review Cover

Funny Kid (14) Seriously Soccer

Max just doesn’t get what the big deal is about soccer. There is one ball, two goals, and eleven people .....

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Felix and the Future Agency Book Review Cover

Felix and the Future Agency

Felix hates school. He tries to hide it, but when he gets dreams or visions of the future, he can’t .....

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Dracula & Daughters Book Review Cover

Dracula & Daughters

When Mina’s plan to steal a body goes terribly wrong, her entire life changes. The body in question was a .....

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The Edge of Light (2) The Miracle Book Review Cover

The Edge of Light (2) The Miracle

Merel has escaped her island home of Littleton – the only home she’s ever known. Now a captive aboard a .....

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Violet and the Velvets Book Review Cover

Violet and the Velvets

Violet Grumble loves music. She has grown up with it all around her and her mum has told her stories .....

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Violet and the Velvets 2 Book Review Cover

Violet and the Velvets (2) The Case of the Angry Ghost

Violet and the Velvets are competing at the School BandChamps. Excitement and nerves are all in the mix as the .....

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Traumaland Book Review Cover

Trauma Land

It all began with a sticker on a stolen phone. Eli stole it, hoping it would give him something he’s .....

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The Secret Green Book Review Cover

The Secret Green

Nissa can’t stop thinking about it. She may have been famous at home and school for a while, after surviving .....

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Paw & Order - The Grilled Cheese Caper Book Review Cover

Paw & Order – The Grilled Cheese Caper

Purrlock and Marlowe are not only best friends, they are partners in the Paw & Order Private Detective Agency. One .....

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Ninja Girl 1 Book review Cover

Ninja Girl (1)

Niki Dawson didn’t mean to do it. She was playing with her friends at school when she landed in a .....

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Sunrise on the Reaping Book Review Cover

Sunrise on the Reaping

Haymitch Abernathy is in two minds as he wakes on his 16th birthday. As he wonders what might await him from his .....

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Dreamslinger Book Review Cover

Dreamslinger Book Review

Aria is incredibly proud of her father. He has always believed that the gene-compromised Dreamslingers in their community are not .....

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The Wild and Windy Stars of Matariki - Ururangi and Waipunarangi Book Review Cover

The Wild and Windy Stars of Matariki – Ururangi and Waipunarangi

With no shops, cafes or other things people stop in towns for, Te Mata Hāpuku isn’t very exciting. One thing .....

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Resist - A Story of D-Day Book Review Cover

Resist – A Story of D-Day

For three long years Samira Zidane and her mother have belonged to the French Resistance in Northern France. The German .....

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The Girl and the Ghost Book Review Cover

The Girl and the Ghost

Josephine Eloise Thomas (Jet) and her family have moved to France to renovate an old chateau and look for any .....

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The Girl and the Ghost (2) Family Secrets Book Review Cover

The Girl and the Ghost (2) Family Secrets

Josephine and Gabriel are the talk of their little town and all of France. Defeating art thieves and enabling the .....

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Millie and Stella The Lost Ponies Book Review Cover

Millie and Stella – Best Friends Forever (1) The Lost Ponies

Millie and Stella are the very best of friends and do everything together at school and after school with their .....

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