AustLit
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y Give Peas a Chance Camberwell : Puffin , 2007 Z1412589 2007 selected work children's fiction (taught in 3 units)
'Surprise your mum with a chainsaw, be a bigger star than Tom Cruise, save the world with a plate of veggies, start your new life in a taxi, rescue your family with a tomato, send your dad into a panic with a tractor, do a good deed with a paper bag on your head pack your bags for a trip to the spleen, upset your auntie with ten kilos of chocolate, swap a bomb for three ice-creams on a train . . . and lots more.' (Publication summary)
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The Witches!$!Dahl, Roald!$!!$!Penguin!$!2007s
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Peter Pan!$!Barrie, J.M.!$!!$!Penguin!$!2008s
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y Jimmy and Pat Meet the Queen Jimmy Pike (illustrator), Broome : Backroom Press , 1997 Z844983 1997 single work picture book children's (taught in 1 units)
'Jimmy and Pat Meet the Queen is a fantasy about Native Title, in which Jimmy, a traditional owner of land in the Great Sandy Desert, challenges the Queen to visit his camp and prove to him that she is the rightful owner of this so-called ‘vacant Crown land’. Her Majesty accepts the invitation, and soon learns what it really means to be a landowner in the Australian desert. A light-hearted look at a serious subject, suitable for readers of all ages.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe!$!Lewis, C. S.!$!!$!HarperCollins!$!2000s
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban!$!Rowling, J.K.!$!!$!Bloomsbury Publishing PLC!$!2000s
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y Lizzie Nonsense Jan Ormerod (illustrator), Surry Hills : Little Hare Books , 2004 Z1141335 2004 single work picture book children's historical fiction (taught in 3 units) Her mother calls it nonsense when Lizzie pretends that their house is pretty or that a bath is the sea, but it turns out that imagination runs in the family.s
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y The Mark of the Wagarl Janice Lyndon (illustrator), Broome : Magabala Books , 2004 Z1155895 2004 single work picture book children's Indigenous story (taught in 3 units) This is a story about the Wagarl, the sacred water snake who inhabited the waterways in the country belonging to the Nyoongar people. It tells how a little boy came to receive the Wagarl for his totem.s
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Pippi Longstocking!$!Lindgren, Astrid!$!!$!Oxford University Press!$!2004s
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A Wizard of Earthsea!$!Le Guin, Ursula!$!!$!Penguin!$!1971s