Kirjahaku

Tornadoes are known to destroy anything they touch - flattening houses, uplifting trees, and tossing cars into the air. In this story, Troy and his mother prepare for such an emergency.

Elissa wants to be elected to the student council, but she is terrified of public speaking. Then one night, she has a strange dream, where her adventures in a fantasy world teach her how to overcome her fears - both imagined and real.

Marcus is a wealthy young boy living in Pompeii in 79 AD. He writes in his journal of strange things that are happening, such as earth tremors and ash falling from the sky. Then Mount Vesuvius erupts, and he and his family are to run for their lives. His journal continues the story of their escape and the aftermath of the eruption.

Bold, colourful readers with kid-friendly characters and subjects they'd choose for themselves.

The Australian South Sea Islander (ASSI) minority community has a contested indentured labour background and involvement in the Australian sugar cane industry which has resulted in a consequent paucity of material culture and other records. This paucity, in a sense, forms a substantive part of The Secret Life of Memorials: Through the Memory Lens of the Australian South Sea Islanders as it is argued that memory places, rather than static artefactual stand-ins for the past, are dynamic material culture which have agency and relevance in the present, participating in the on-going post-colonial process. Although a material culture study focused on the materialised expression of memory, this research allows discussion beyond typologies, styles and categories to consider the relational meaning and distributed agency of these objects within the complex network of public memory. In addition to considerations of their symbolic, mnemonic or representational reflections of the past, contemporary memorials are discussed as extensions of the original ASSI event to which they refer, a part of a continuous process that is helping to shape current communities. This encompassing approach, from historical experience to present day memory enactment strategies, employs a variety of theoretical arguments, contributing a new method for comprehending and including the many interleaving aspects of memory spaces, of interest to heritage professionals, local councils and governing bodies, and members of the general public.

While shopping with her mum, Gina sees a beautiful glass unicorn, and slips it in to her pocket, But then she realises that she will never be able to enjoy it, because she stole it. She confesses to her mother, who had already found the unicorn in Gina's pocket. Gina returns the unicorn to the shop. She promises never to steal again. Mum suggests that Gina should do odd jobs to earn money to buy the unicorn. When Gina makes the final payment on the unicorn, she puts it on her dressing table for everyone to enjoy.

Chris becomes a hero in a basketball game because he scored more points then anyone else when he was injured. That night Andrew finds out that he has asthma. The doctor gives Andrew an inhaler but Andrew is embarrassed about using it, so he decides to keep his asthma a secret. At the next game, Andrew doesn't want to use the inhaler in front of Chris. so he leaves it in his bag. During the game, Andrew has an asthma attack and has to go to hospital. Chris comes to visit Andrew and reveals that he has asthma too.