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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
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....
6) On the run
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
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.
7) Cloudwish
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"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"--
8) Snap!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Joey the kangaroo plays games with Twisker the bush mouse, Slider the snake, Prickler the echidna, Flatso the platypus, and Sly-tooth the crocodile.
Author
Series
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
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.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 20
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Australia where they must save some animals from a wildfire.
12) Possum magic
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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.
14) Bob
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
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.
15) Crocodile attack
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2010, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When the robber who has kidnapped Sam Fox and his two-year-old cousin Nissa crashes his car into the Crocodile River, Sam struggles to protect himself and Nissa from the danger all around them.
16) The assault
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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.
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume no. 8
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When his brother uses him as a boomerang on a beach near the Great Barrier Reef, the wind takes Flat Stanley halfway across Australia to the Outback.
20) Mirror
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Description
In Sydney, Australia, and in Morocco, two boys and their families have a day of shopping. Readers are invited to compare illustrations in two wordless stories that are intended to be read one from left to right and the other from right to left.
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