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A powerful story of one girl's experience of 2019's Cyclone Veronica in Western Australia.

A powerful story of one girl's experience of 2019's Cyclone Veronica in Western Australia. Mia is used to cyclone build-ups, but the noise and energy of the wild rain squalls keep her awake half the night. What if the cyclone hits before Mum gets back? As wild winds batter the coast, Mia knows she must keep calm. The animals need her. Thirteen-year-old Mia lives on a bush block in the Pilbara, where she assists her mother's work as a vet and e...

Life is about making a difference, ' Munjed says. ''We all have a mission in life, to leave behind a legacy.'' His resilience, determination and view of the world as a glass half full, not half empty, has helped him excel in his chosen career. Highlights include his development of an improved osseointegration prosthetic limb, a new surgery that inserts a titanium implant into the bone, allowing patients to recover a certain level of feeling an...

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Each button in Nanna's tin prompts the sharing of a memory in a welcoming story captured in warm, expressively detailed illustrations.Nanna's button tin is very special. It holds buttons of all shapes and sizes, and they all have a different story to tell. When her granddaughter shakes all the buttons onto the floor and starts to sort, she finds a tiny yellow circle that was on the baby jacket she wore home from the hospital, as Nanna remember...

Fay lives alone with her father on bleak, windswept Breaksea Island, but her isolated life takes a dramatic turn with the outbreak of World War I. Fay collects the messages of lonely soldiers heading to the front line. She is their last hope of getting m

Annie loves her pet snails. They have lots of adventures together. She even makes them a special home in an ice - cream container. She thinks they'll be very happy. But will they?...

Cassie's world is turned upside down when her dad is retrenched and decides to move to Eucla in the middle of the Nullabor as a pest control officer for the Agriculture Protection Board. She has to leave behind everything that is familiar-her Friends, her school and her home. And Eucla what a place! It's the middle of nowhere and the only other girl she's met so far is three years old. Then Ella comes to town, and Ella's brother visits...

Alice is eight years old and for two years she has been galloping around, swishing her tail and snorting with her other friends of the Pony Club. But on the eve of her birthday she wakes up to discover she is no longer a horse. This is terrible. All her friends are in the pony club, and now her whole world is upside down. She tries all kinds of strange ways to get her horsiness back but it's no good. She just doesn't feel the same way about ho...

Told in a nonjudgmental narrative that confronts issues head-on, this story follows 17-year-old Elisabeth who discovers she is pregnant and has a tough choice to make: keep the baby or make alternative arrangements. With parents pressuring her, a boyfriend she cannot trust, a best friend she keeps pushing away, and her own indecision, Elisabeth's dilemma grows more and more difficult. This realistic account of teenage pregnancy addresses the p...