Reading Age: 7 to 10 Years

Age Range 7+ Jack loves visiting Grandpa in his old train carriage. He loves helping him in the train museum. And he loves hearing his stories about trains and railways. From runaway engines to people-powered carriages, train-robbing bushrangers and lifesaving pointsmen, Grandpa ...always has a tale to pass the time. Best of all, every one of them is true. Join Jack and his Grandpa as they journey through Australian railway history - and try to save the town's precious train museum. Budding young train enthusiasts will love poring over the historic photos and facts and figures at the end of each chapter, and testing their knowledge in the `Train Your Brain' quizzes.
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A contemporary pick-a-path series about life, first crushes and friendship, that lets the reader choose how the story goes! Mackenzie loves her life in the city. She's in a band with her bestie, she's just met a cute boy called Toby, and she doesn't mind moving between her parent...s' places each week. But then her mum decides to move away, and everything changes ... 1. When Mack moves to the country with her mum, she starts hanging out with music-mad Laura ... and drifting apart from her old best friend, Immy. Are they destined to lose their friendship, especially when Mack's old band is playing without her? 2. When Mack decides to live with her dad in the city, she has to put up with his control-freak girlfriend moving in too! But maybe the upcoming Battle of the Bands competition - and getting to know the adorable Toby - will be enough of a distraction? Follow your heart right to the end, or go back and choose all over again!
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A timely and heartfelt collection of essays inspired by the #MeToo movement, edited by acclaimed author Janet Gurtler. Featuring Beth Revis, Mackenzi Lee, Ellen Hopkins, Saundra Mitchell, Jennifer Brown, Cheryl Rainfield and many more. When #MeToo went viral, Janet Gurtler was am...ong the millions of people who began to reflect on her past experiences. Things she had reluctantly accepted - male classmates groping her at recess, harassment at work - came back to her in startling clarity. She needed teens to know what she had not: that no young person should be subject to sexual assault, or made to feel unsafe, less than or degraded.You Too? was born out of that need. By turns thoughtful and explosive, these personal stories encompass a wide range of experiences and serve as a reminder to readers that they, too, have a voice worthy of being heard - and that only by listening and working together can we create change.
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Divya Sharma is a queen. Or she is when she's playing Reclaim the Sun, the year's hottest online game. Divya - better known as popular streaming gamer D1V - regularly leads her #AngstArmada on quests through the game's vast and gorgeous virtual universe. But for Divya, this is mo...re than just a game. Out in the real world, she's trading her rising-star status for sponsorships to help her struggling single mum pay the rent.Gaming is basically Aaron Jericho's entire life. Much to his mother's frustration, Aaron has zero interest in becoming a doctor like her, and spends his free time writing games for a local developer. At least he can escape into Reclaim the Sun - and with a trillion worlds to explore, disappearing should be easy. But to his surprise, he somehow ends up on the same remote planet as celebrity gamer D1V.At home, Divya and Aaron grapple with their problems alone, but in the game, they have each other to face infinite new worlds...and the growing legion of trolls populating them. Soon the virtual harassment seeps into reality when a group called the Vox Populi begin launching real-world doxxing campaigns, threatening Aaron's dreams and Divya's actual life. The online trolls think they can drive her out of the game, but everything and everyone Divya cares about is on the line...And she isn't going down without a fight.
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Friendship can be found in the unlikeliest of places.After her mother's death, Sky leaves her city life to move in with her aunt and uncle in a small Australian town. Life in a new place isn't easy, and Sky finds comfort in the friendship of a stray dog she meets along the way.Bu...t her new friends at school are another story, and as Sky struggles to fit in, she finds herself doing things that go against everything she believes in.When Sky stumbles on a case of animal cruelty, she is forced to question what's really important to her and who she wants to be.
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