The Orchard Underground
The Orchard Underground

Author: Mat Larkin

Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1743585713

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An explosive, suspenseful and utterly brilliant middle-grade mystery for fans of Louis Sachar’s Holes. Not-quite twelve year-old Pri Kohli knows the town of Dunn’s Orchard better than anyone. After all, he was the first kid ever to live there. He knows its mysteries (none), its secrets (also none) and the best ways to have fun in it (climb a big tree and sit there). So why can’t he answer newcomer Attica Stone’s simple question: if the town’s called Dunn’s Orchard, where’s the orchard? As Pri and Attica go in search of forbidden fruit, they uncover stranger mysteries: a robot caterpillar, a mayor with a murky past, a Possibly Real Actual Boogeyman and a house made of doors in a haunted wood. But what will Pri and Attica do when they discover the biggest secret of all – that something truly magical is about to be destroyed, and the only way to save it could be by destroying the town itself? Mat Larkin’s stunning debut is a big-hearted, wildly surprising and deliciously well-plotted mystery for readers aged 8+ about the joy of discovery, and digging just that little bit deeper to uncover the truth. Shortlisted for the 2019 Readings Children's Book Prize Longlisted for the 2019 ABDA Awards: Best Designed Children's Book

The Chameleon Thief
The Chameleon Thief

Author: Mat Larkin

Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing

Published: 2022-03-02

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1743586817

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How far would you go to save your enemy? Attica Stone has fantastic friends, a great life and a massive problem: her bestie, Jinni Miscamble, suddenly hates her. Attica doesn't know why – but she does know Jinni's done something bad. Really bad. And only Attica can help her deal with the consequences. Does Jinni want Attica's help? No. Does she need it? Yes. But in order to save Jinni, Attica will need to pull off a stunt so wild, so daring, that it might just get her kicked out of town … Razor-sharp wit, not-quite-right magic tricks and a heist involving the world’s rudest bunnies combine in this irresistible read from beloved author Mat Larkin. A prequel to his exuberant debut The Orchard Underground, The Chameleon Thief is a stand-alone novel featuring the reader favourite Attica Stone.

Eva Underground
Eva Underground

Author: Dandi Daley Mackall

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780152054625

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In 1978, a high school senior is forced by her widowed father to move from their comfortable Chicago suburb to help with an underground education movement in communist Poland.

The Blue Orchard
The Blue Orchard

Author: Jackson Taylor

Publisher: Touchstone

Published: 2010-01-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781439186688

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On the eve of the Great Depression, Verna Krone, the child of Irish immigrants, must leave the eighth grade and begin working as a maid to help support her family. Her employer takes inappropriate liberties, and as Verna matures, it seems as if each man she meets is worse than the last. Through sheer force of will and a few chance encounters, she manages to teach herself to read and becomes a nurse. But Verna's new life falls to pieces when she is arrested for assisting a black doctor with illegal surgeries. As the media firestorm rages, Verna reflects on her life while awaiting trial.Based on the life of the author's own grandmother and written after almost three hundred interviews with those involved in the real-life scandal, The Blue Orchard is as elegant and moving as it is exact and convincing. It is a dazzling portrayal of the changes America underwent in the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Readers will be swept into a time period that in many ways mirrors our own. Verna Krone's story is ultimately a story of the indomitable nature of the human spirit -- and a reminder that determination and self-education can defy the deforming pressures that keep women and other disenfranchised groups down.

The Family Orchard
The Family Orchard

Author: Nomi Eve

Publisher: Virago Press

Published: 2002-03

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781860499234

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A beautifully crafted story of a Jewish family, reaching back five generations. Using births, deaths and family legends, here are stories of how people meet and fall in love, of family secrets and tragedies, of sex and marriage. Yochanan and his wife Esther who lived happily despite Esther's long-time affair with the local baker; Avra who has a penchant for stealing (and returning) who marries Shimon, an immigrant from Russia; Miriam, a child of Eastern Europe who sews her family's futures into her cloth. Shyly sexy and funny, always rooted in the domestic and the familiar, this is an enchanting, complex novel which draws on the voices of many generations from far and wide, reaching across the Diaspora - Israel, Europe and America.

Chirri & Chirra
Chirri & Chirra

Author: Kaya Doi

Publisher: Chirri & Chirra

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781592701995

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The first in a wonderfully imaginative series about two girls that is marked by revealing and lyrical small details.

Mega-city Redux
Mega-city Redux

Author: Alyse Knorr

Publisher: Green Mountains Review Books

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780996334228

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Poetry. Alyse Knorr's MEGA-CITY REDUX is a marvel. In 1405, Christine de Pizan, the world's first female professional writer, published an allegorical work called The Book of the City of Ladies, in which she imagined constructing (with the help of her fairy godmothers Reason, Rectitude, and Justice) a walled city where women could live safe from sexism, misogyny, and gendered violence. Six hundred years later, women across the world still find themselves in need of such a city. MEGA-CITY REDUX, a novel in verse remix of Pizan's allegory, charts a modern-day road-trip search for the mythical city, with the help of 21st- century feminist heroes Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xena Warrior Princess, and Dana Scully from The X-Files.

Underground
Underground

Author: Mirranda Burton

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1761062263

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Why would a wombat be registered for war? It's 1965, and an old Tattersalls barrel starts rolling marbles to randomly conscript young Australian men to fight in the war in Vietnam. Melbourne housewife Jean McLean is outraged, as are her artist friends Clif and Marlene Pugh, who live in the country with their wombat, Hooper. Determined to wreck the system, Jean forms the Save Our Sons movement's Victorian branch, and she and her supporters take to the streets to protest. Meanwhile, in the small country town of Katunga, Bill Cantwell joins the Australian Army, and in Saigon, young Mai Ho is writing letters to South Vietnamese soldiers from her school desk. And when Hooper's call-up papers arrive, he mysteriously goes underground... As these stories intersect in unexpected ways and destinies entwine, a new world gradually emerges - a world in which bridges of understanding make more sense than war. This stunning graphic novel, full of empathy, courage and resistance, is based on true events. 'Every drawing reflects a Vietnamese history era in which I grew up and witnessed the war. I cannot thank you enough for this memory.' MAI HO 'I wish I had this growing up. It's incredibly informative. Stories like this are severely lacking, and for an Australian audience, I think it will be revelatory.' MATT HUYNH

On the Road to Freedom
On the Road to Freedom

Author: Charles E. Cobb (Jr.)

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1565124391

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An award-winning black journalist takes a pilgrimage through the sites and landmarks of the civil rights movement as he journeys to key locales that served as a backdrop to important events of the 1960s, journeying around the country to pay tribute to the people, organizations, and events that transformed America. Original.