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Storm boy : the illustrated story / Colin Thiele ; illustrators: Jenni Goodman, Andrew Davies.

Storm Boy saves the life of Mr Percival, and in return the pelican helps Storm Boy's father with his fishing and joins in the rescue of a shipwrecked crew. The boy and the pelican prove friends to the end.
Author: Thiele, Colin, 1920-2006
Published: London, UK : New Holland Publishers, 2018.
79 pages : colour illustrations ; 22 cm.

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - J THI - Onloan - Due: 27 Apr 2024 - 009908726

The sound of whales / Kerr Thomson.

Three children are spending their summer on a wild Scottish island. Fraser is desperate for adventure; Hayley is fed up she's even there; while Dunny spends his days staring out to sea. He hasn't said a word in years. But everything changes with the discovery of two bodies on the beach: a whale and a man. Fraser and Hayley see a mystery-adventure to be solved, but Dunny is inconsolable. And in the end, it will take someone who listens to the sea to put it right.
Author: Thomson, Kerr
Published: Frome, Somerset : Chicken House, 2015.
314 pages ; 20 cm.

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - J THO - Available - 008861336

Star of Deltora. Shadows of the master [Paperback] / Emily Rodda.

Britta of Del wants nothing less than to be the new Apprentice Trader of the Rosalyn fleet. Family and friends and even the terrible secret of her parentage will not stop her. But how can she succeed when her true identity must surely be guessed by Trader Mab, who knew her father, and the crew of the Star of Deltora? Relying on no more than her wits and the kind acts of friends she makes along the way, Britta is drawn closer and closer to her terrible destiny.
Author: Rodda, Emily, 1948-*
Published: Parkside, S. Aust. : Omnibus, 2015.
170 pages ; 20 cm.
Star of Deltora ; 1
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 5 and 6
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 7 and 8

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - J ROD - Available - 008868458

Withering-by-Sea : a Stella Montgomery intrigue [Paperback] / by Judith Rossell.

High on a cliff above the gloomy coastal town of Withering-by-Sea stands the Hotel Majestic. Inside the walls of the damp, dull hotel, eleven-year-old orphan Stella Montgomery leads a miserable life with her three dreadful Aunts. But one night, Stella sees something she shouldn't have ... Something that will set in motion an adventure more terrifying and more wonderful than she could ever have hoped for ...
Author: Rossell, Judith
Published: Sydney : ABC Books, 2014.
259 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Stella Montgomery intrigue ; 1
CBCA short listed book for Younger Readers 2015
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 5 and 6
Average rating: (1 review)

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - J ROS - Available - 008556737

Finding serendipity [ebook] / Angelica Banks.

Tuesday McGillycuddy loves stories - and her mother is a writer. A very famous writer, who has locked herself away in her writing room to finish the final book in her best-selling series for children. But when Tuesday knocks on her door, she discovers her mother is missing! In search of Serendipity, Tuesday and her faithful dog Baxterr soon find themselves on a very dangerous mission. They enter the magical world where stories come from, a mysterious and unpredictable world, full of real danger and heart-stopping adventure. With the help of pint-sized heroine Vivienne Small, Tuesday will need all her wit, courage, perseverance and imagination in order to get to The End and be reunited with the people she loves.
Author: Banks, Angelica
Published: [Crows Nest, N.S.W.] : Allen & Unwin, 2013.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 5 and 6
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