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1) Velocity
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Cassica and Shiara have grown up in Coppermouth, a dust choked town in the Outback, but now they hope to use their skills as race driver and mechanic to take on the Widowmaker, an off-road rally through some of the most dangerous places on Earth, to win fame and fortune--provided they survive the race.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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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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Michael's parents are leaders of a new anti-immigrant political party called Aussie Values which is trying to halt the flood of refugees from the Middle East; Mina fled Afghanistan with her family ten years ago, and just wants to concentrate on fitting in and getting into college -- but the mutual attraction they feel demands that they come to terms with their family's concerns and decide where they stand in the ugly anti-Muslim politics of the time....
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Choose your own adventure volume 21
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123 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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English
6) On the run
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English
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Twelve-year-old Ben, who aspires to be a police officer, struggles to do the right thing when his parents suddenly take him and his little sister "on vacation," and he learns they took a large amount of money that was mistakenly deposited in their bank account.
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Secret agent Jack Stalwart volume 2
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110 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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Secret agent Jack Stalwart searches for a diver missing from the Great Barrier Reef and a treasure that has vanished from the wreck of the HMS Pandora while trying to defeat a deadly band of pirates.
11) Peter
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229 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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An ordinary fifteen-year-old Australian kid, who enjoys riding his dirt bike and wants to be a photographer, becomes confused about his sexuality when he finds he is attracted to a gay friend of his older brother.
12) Stolen
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Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is abducted while on vacation with her parents and taken to the Australian outback, where she soon realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed.
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Year Eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith--without losing her identity or sense of style.
15) Bob
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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.
16) Cloudwish
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309 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Vietnamese-Australian teenager Vân Uoc Phan, the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, doesn't believe in magic until the day an absent-minded wish actually comes true and she attracts the attention of her longtime crush"--
18) Crow country
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Sadie isn't thrilled when her mother drags her from the city to live in the country town of Boort. But she soon starts making connections - connections with the country, with the past, with two boys, Lachie and Walter, and, most surprisingly, with the every-present crows. When Sadie is tumbled back in time to view a terrible crime, she is pulled into a strange mystery. Can Sadie, Walter and Lachie figure out a way to right old wrongs, or will they...
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Middle school novels volume 9
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257 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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The trip to Australia Rafe has won starts badly, but after connecting with a group of misfits he finds a way to do what he does best -- create mayhem.
20) Wildlife
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385 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Two sixteen-year-old girls in Australia come together at an outdoor semester of school, before university -- one thinking about boys and growing up, the other about death and grief, but somehow they must help each other to find themselves.
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