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Stella’s coming! She stinks – eye-watering, nose-tingling, hold-your-breath stinks! What will make Stella get clean? Or is the world doomed to smell her stench forever?
Join Stella on a fun experience where what she wants comes at the ultimate price. What will Stella do next?
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Disaster has hit the home suburb of Marnie and Tiana. Someone started stealing toilet lids, and often the whole seat. It started in public places then it started in private homes! Why would anyone contemplate such a vile act? Tempers, anxieties and frustration rise as more and more lids disappear. People go to futile extremes to protect their toilets. What is behind the wave of odious thefts? Is it Cec Pitt, TV presenters of The Collectors and Gatherers...
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Not Just a Knot! is based on a mother and a child with very messy hair. The child tries to escape her mother's brush and soon reveals that she has befriended a knot on her head. As the story continues, it is revealed that the child really just wants to spend time with her mum. At last, Mum understands and makes time to play a game, only after her hair has been brushed. Ahhh, so now finally the knot is gone...or is it?
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Question: Where is "e"?
Answer: "e" is not here.
This entire story about a bug is told without using the letter "e".
Mr. Bug likes crawling up and down the arms. He's crawling up my arm now, and he's on a mission to find you.
How will he get from my arm to yours without the help of "e"?
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George never seems to be very lucky. Nothing ever seems to go quite right for him. In fact, George believes that he is the unluckiest boy in the world. When his class is involved in a school project involving growing sunflowers and the production of a play called "James and The Giant Sunflower", which is to be performed in front of all the parents at the summer fair, things seem to go from bad to worse for George. Will he ever be able to beat Ben...
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The Bag of Magic Jelly Beans possess unique abilities with special powers.
They find themselves in precarious situations with close calls that require specialist skills.
Are they able to use skills to overcome challenges and get themselves out of these situations?
Can this be done in an exciting way where adventure reigns supreme?
One aspect I am sure of: this story will leave you enthralled, uplifted, and entertained.
8) Anthony Ant
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The story is about a Colony of Ants, with the main character being Anthony Ant. At the start of the story, Anthony is being made a Special Soldier to help protect the Colony and to protect the Queen.
Anthony settles competently into his new role and is extremely efficient and well organised. Other Soldier Ants turn against him because they are irritated and annoyed by his perfection and try to ambush his day-to-day tasks.
An unexpected attack takes...
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"Between Rose Thorn and Mrs Sneddle, school is miserable. Just know I hate Rose Thorn and she hates me-end of story. Or maybe it is the beginning?"
Dilly Cooper likes to draw comics and is just trying to have a little fun while getting through school. It can be hard sometimes with her nemesis, Rose Thorn, living down the street with her equally obnoxious father and dog, Tidbits. Rose lives up to her name and is a continuous thorn in Dilly's side,...
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This book is about animals only found in Australia. Baby marsupials like kangaroo joeys grow up in their mother's pouch where they breastfeed. Echidnas and platypus are monotremes. Their babies hatch from eggs, but they are mammals and they drink their mother's milk like other mammals do. This book is full of poems about mammals playing musical instruments. It also has some strange facts: I bet you didn't know that wombats make cubic poo. Well now...
11) Mik and Milly
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Mik and Milly follows the story of Mik, the coolest kid at Gumnut International Boarding and Day College, who finds himself facing a daunting challenge after his best friend Milly receives devastating news from her parents on the other side of the world. As mid-year school holidays approach, Mik decides to take Milly on a road trip of a lifetime to the Australian outback. However, an unexpected event at an abandoned mine on his mate's sheep farm alters...
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Read about the Little Chewing Gums' dream to meet the Queen and become her royal chewing gum. She sets off on her adventure to Buckingham Palace and on her way she meets funny and charming characters who become her friends and help her on her journey. Will she fulfil her dream by meeting the Queen and living happily after? Find out in this funny and adventurous story.
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When the mysterious and valuable Neil diamond disappears, Dame Jane Great-Dane rushes to the one detective who can solve the mystery before it hits the papers – Hake Pollock, the famous Fish Stick Detective. The mystery trail will take the Fish Stick Detective from his shabby corner office to the glitzy world of the gem trade and into the halls of academia.In his trademark trenchcoat and fedora, Hake Pollock sets about investigating the suspects:...
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Get ready for a whimsical adventure in this engaging chapter book tailored for young readers. Set in a world filled with quirky characters and their eccentric antics, the tale unfolds with the introduction of Vincent, an offbeat character known for his unconventional habits. In an amusing twist, Vincent resists the notion of cleaning his teeth, causing quite a commotion among the other inhabitants of Bear's house, including the toothbrush, toothpaste,...
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This book is a fun rhyming book for children, all about a baboon who has made his home on the moon. Edgar St Neeze is an inquisitive baboon. Having considered the frequently asked question of whether the moon is made of cheese, he is determined to prove that it is. Follow Edgar's adventures and discover whether or not he is successful in this hilarious and engaging book.
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You Gotta Have Cheer is full of art games, poems, stories, and best of all, whimsical cheers for school and home interaction with your kids."Make hand movements to clap, tap, and hand jive your own way,To set up class rules and organize your day."There are funny toasts and roasts. You might even insert your friends and family names to cheer them on."You ran for someone dear you loved,And I know she loved you on earth and above."Lois has had "MOR-TONS"...
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Enter the extravagant world of naughty children, school bullies and nerds, fancy cats, dirty dogs, world-record holding bubble blowers, showoffs, scary teachers, hypochondriacs, lost beloved bunnies, annoying little brothers, funky potions, heroes that come in all shapes and sizes and more.
You may just find that these larger-than-life characters remind you of someone you know, maybe even a little of yourself!
Read at your own risk: you must know...
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It is nearly Christmas in the cold, snowy village of Much Moaning. Clang and the ladies of Sausage Cottage are all freezing! Big Brain school is getting ready for the school play. It has to be brilliant or Miss Clever Clogs will be in trouble with Miss Head Honcho the headteacher!
However, there is a big problem. Many children have a sick bug or chickenpox. The children supposed to play the animals in the manger are all away ill.
Miss Clever Clogs...
20) Bertha Spankle
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Bertha Spankle is a clumsy soul who dreams of seeing the world. These tales take her on heart-stopping adventures, which teach her to follow her dreams.
Bertha finds herself in many life-changing situations, but manages to persevere… you never know what you are capable of until you try!
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