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2) On the run
Author
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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." -- Provided by publisher.
3) Bob
Author
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mike Evans and his best friend, Shannon, pursue the dangerous Mr. Bones to Australia, where he has reanimated an Allosaurus and may be seeking more complete dinosaur skeletons to bring to life--but they discover that actually he and his sister have a more profitable scheme in mind.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old genius Cadel Piggot Greenaus sets aside his new, crime-free life when his best friend Sonja is attacked, and he crosses oceans and continents trying to track down his nemesis Prosper English, breaking whatever rules he must.
7) Featherbys
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Jess thinks she is facing a boring vacation, when she and her friends discover Featherbys.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The students and crew aboard the School Ship Tobermory head to Australia to take part in a tall ships race, but an unexpected change of course brings a different kind of adventure.
10) The red shoe
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Three sisters growing up in post-World War II Sydney, Australia, deal with their mentally unstable father, their possibly unfaithful mother, and the defecting Russian spy who lives next door.
12) Wildlife
Author
Publisher
Poppy/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the schools.
15) Jellicoe Road
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
16) Kippy Koala
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
18 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Join Kippy Koala on a treasure hunt through the forest to uncover rainbow-colored jewels and meet all of his friends along the way.
17) Pie in the Sky
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
380 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Knowing very little English, eleven-year-old Jingwen feels like an alien when his family immigrates to Australia, but copes with loneliness and the loss of his father by baking elaborate cakes.
18) Mirror
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 28 cm
Language
Arabic
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.
19) Fly on the wall
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
332 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Henry Khoo embarks on a forbidden journey from Australia to Singapore to prove his independence to his overprotective family while working out some problems with friends.
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