Book Week Fun
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Early Childhood Category | Picture Book Category
Younger Readers Category
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Younger Readers Category
Grand Genius Summer
by Lisa Shanahan
It’s summer holidays and Henry Hoobler is worried about many things. He meets Cassie, who has the knack of making everything seem possible. Suddenly Henry discovers the way a new friend and unexpected adventure can turn a person inside out, into something new.
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Henrietta and the perfect Night
by Martine Murray
Hello everybody, it’s me. Henrietta the Great Go-Getter, and I’m having a big think. ‘m an explorer of life. When Henrietta sees Olive Higgie crying in the classroom, she goes on a rescue mission and finds that you only need one friend in a room full of strangers to feel perfectly happy.
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How to Bee
by Bren McDibble
Peony lives with her sister and grandfather on a fruit farm. All Peony really wants is to be a Bee. Peony’s mother arrives to take her away from everything she has ever known, and all Peony’s grit and quick thinking might not be enough to keep her safe.
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Marsh and Me
by Martine Murray
Joey is a sensitive and timid boy who comes out of his shell when he meets Marsh, a young girl from Serbia who has built a tree house on his hill. We soon find out Marsh has a complex story of her own.
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The Elephant
by Peter Carvanas
Olive’s father has a sadness so big that she imagines it as a large grey elephant following him around. With the help of her cheery grandfather and her best friend, Arthur, Olive sets out to chase away her father’s elephant.
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The Shop at Hoopers Bend
by Emily Rodda
Quil’s parents died in a car accident when she was a baby and she now goes to boarding school, but spends her holidays with an aunt, or at camp, which is where Quil is heading when she decides to get off early at a train stop called Hoopers Bend.
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