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Kim and her mother find a very sad dog in their backyard. Kim would like to keep the dog, but Mum says they must try to find his owner. They put up notices at the local shops, but Kim is secretly pleased when nobody contacts them about the dog. Then she hears an announcement on the radio about a lost dog that sounds like the one in their backyard, but she doesnt tell Mum. However, the dog gets sadder, and sadder, and Kim realises he needs to be returned to his owners.

Tig and Jamie go to stay at their Grandads farm. He warns them not to go into the old mines on the hill. However, Jamie is keen to explore and she persuades Tig to go up to the mines. At the entrance to the mines they find some interesting objects, and realise someone has been into the disused mines recently. That night, Tig sees some car lights heading towards the mines, and he, Jamie and Grandad go to investigate.

Lisa's best friend moves away and no matter how hard she tries, or others try to help her, she still feels 'leftover' and alone. One day a new girl arrives in her class, and it is not until the class goes on an excursion that Lisa realises that she won't always feel like 'Lisa Leftover'!

Animal verses illustrated with silhouettes cover cats and dogs, a donkey, monkeys, swans, ducks, aardvark and even a unicorn. These poems play with rhyme and form.

Failure is never easy, but it's especially difficult if you've been programmed to succeed. Amara of Flutewood is the daughter of champion Valourns, and her elder sister is already winning medallions. Amara herself has been training at the elite Shuancamp for four years, but now, just as she should be flying, she's stalled instead. Mediocrity isn't an option, but what can she do? Sometimes working harder is not enough. To succeed in her chosen field, Amara will have to change the rules. Wintersong is set in the same world as Amy Amaryllis (1992), Shadowdancers (1994) and Candle Iron (2000). It was first printed in 2007. This 10th anniversary edition is expanded and rewritten.

Pearl the Magical Unicorn is the first in Sally Odgers's three-volume chapter book series illustrated by Adele K. Thomas where the magical unicorn Pearl and her friends take on some of life's tough lessons with humor and heart. Meet Pearl. She is a magical unicorn. But Pearl doesn't quite know how to use her magic. With the help of her friends, Tweet and Olive, can Pearl believe in her magical self? And what happens when Pearl and her friends stumble upon three naughty, stinky gobble-uns ?

Pearl the Magical Unicorn is the first in Sally Odgers's three-volume chapter book series illustrated by Adele K. Thomas where the magical unicorn Pearl and her friends take on some of life's tough lessons with humor and heart. Meet Pearl. She is a magical unicorn. But Pearl doesn't quite know how to use her magic. With the help of her friends, Tweet and Olive, can Pearl believe in her magical self? And what happens when Pearl and her friends stumble upon three naughty, stinky gobble-uns ?

Are you ready for awesomeness? You can write awesome stories. All you need is an idea, some characters, a setting, a plot and- Whoa there! This is starting to sound like hard work. And you know what? It is hard work, but it can still be fun. In this book you'll find out lots of ways to make those awesome stories even more awesome. You'll learn about *Ideas *Tools *Beginnings *Middles *Ends *Characters *Plots and paces *Settings and periods *Awesome words *Not-so-awesome words *Dialogue *Editing And lots and lots more.

A collection of fantasy verse, illustrated by various artists, Myths of the Mind has taken a long time to bring to fruition.

ZOOM-BAH! Wiley Tyler is waiting for his mum to take him to the skate park when a girl called Spanner offers him a speccy silver skateboard. This incredible gift comes with a catch: to own the board Wiley must commit to becoming Wiley Tyler: Monster Finder

The people in these twelve stories don't lead what you might call ordinary lives. Ingrid is Elevenish. What does that mean? Levi is not too sure what's going on when he gets the cryptic message that states, Mr Calidinori is an alian monster from Mars. This is so true. Pass it on. How would you feel if you found out, quite by accident, that you weren't exactly human? Jake has a journal and it's just as well. No one else would believe the weird things that happen. Paul and Marla are not too keen when Dad house-swaps them to an ancient inn. Red is on holiday at Seaharbour when she sees the ghostly ship. Evie and Dyl have problems when the aliens invade. Polly Fitzwater joined the Spacehawks for adventure. Dad has a habit of springing surprises on Nick and Jessy. The pirate ship Red Queen sails into the bay and the pirates are eager to hit the town. Jasper B Jarman has a double.

I was hanging out with Elizabeth when I saw the boy again. Not just a boy, but that boy, the one you sort-of notice, but only to think, hey, wasn't he here yesterday? He glided by Elizabeth's hedge on his bike once too often, giving that sliding sideways glance he hoped (I expect) looked casual, disinterested and, oh, there's that chick again, hanging out with her big sister...or is it her auntie? Too old to be a friend. Elizabeth is my great-great-great-great-great granny, for your information, Bike Boy, I thought-spoke to him on the fourth bypass of the week. He toed his pedal down and skimmed away before getting into some serious calf-work as he headed up the hill towards Caroline Court. Cat Mahal has an ordinary life in the suburbs. She is also an ethical witch

This time round, I am a human girl and Harry is a dog. This is inconvenient, because my parents didn't really want a dog with a jutting eyebrow fringe and a shaggy, untrimmed beard. Nor did they want a dog that cost five hundred dollars. "A pedigreed Schnauzer!" I said in despair when I recognised him that morning at the agricultural show. "Why did you have to be a pedigreed Schnauzer, Harry? I mean - why did you have to be a dog?" Harry looked sheepish. His beady little eyes peered out from underneath that peculiar fringe. "Sorry, Aelfthryth..." A curse (or maybe a blessing?) sent Saxon girl Aelfthryth, and her boy husband, Hereweald, tumbling through time. They wake anew in each century, and live for a brief time under different identities. To occupy a tedious captivity in their current incarnation, Aelthryth tells her story to her fellow captive, the mysterious Saranna.

When the old dreams are gone, you need new ones. When the starship the "Elysian Dawn" crash-landed on a strange planet eighteen years into its journey, a joint rescue mission was launched by Terra and Shiva. The rescue failed, and everyone involved had to pick up the pieces...and find new dreams.

Harry Fejoa answered an ad offering the adventure of a lifetime. He decided he'd have to be nuts to sign up but did it anyway. Living in a sim for a year and pioneering stasis-tanks for a voyage to the stars kept him busy. So did Rachel-the love of his life.Rachel and Harry are planning for the adventure of a lifetime. They are young and in love, and one day they'll be part of the greatest journey ever undertaken. Until then, they're busy with all the preparations, tests and technicalities necessary before they go on board the starship Elysian Dawn.Seventeen elite adventurers, as their employers dub them, enter the simulation. Harry finds them a mixed bunch indeed. He is a physician, but the others range from a teenage acrobat and a midwife to a geologist, and from a vet and a game developer to an expert in ancient history. The one who intrigues Harry is Rachel Traveller, a nutritionist with a peculiar ability she calls clearsight.As the group work through the challenges of simulation, isolation, and spending time in a stasis-tank, their numbers dwindle until just two of them are left. Now Harry and Rachel prepare for the final challenge, after which they'll be ready to board the starship.Meanwhile, the Outward Bound company faces changing times and goalpost challenges, and some of these might have alarming consequences for Harry and his plans.