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River to Bay

Kulin Nation country is abundant with waterways essential to the way the traditional owners have lived for more than 40,000 years. Those same crucial waterways are where the first ships of European settlers found safe harbour in their trips of exploration. What they found would determine the development of Victoria.

Dragonkeeper

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Dragon Dawn

Prequel to the Dragonkeeper series. Danzi is a youngster in dragon terms. A peaceful visit to a friend doesn't go the way he planned.
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Dragonkeeper

A slave girl saves the life of an ageing dragon and escapes her brutal master.
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Garden of the Purple Dragon

Dragonkeeper 2. Ping thinks she is safe hiding in the shadow of the Tai Shan mountains, but even here enemies find her and Kai.
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Dragon Moon

Dragonkeeper 3. Ping and Kai have travelled far, but their journey is not over yet.
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Blood Brothers

Dragonkeeper 4. Kai is 465, a teenager in dragon years. His search for a dragonkeeper has led him to Tao ... a novice Buddhist monk.
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Shadow Sister

Dragonkeeper 5. Tao must prove he is worthy of the name of dragonkeeper. But the road west is never straight and nothing for Tao and Kai is what it seems.
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Bronze Bird Tower

Dragonkeepr 6. After a long journey, Tao and Kai have arrived at the Dragon Haven. What they find is not the sanctuary Kai has described.

Non-fiction

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Matthew Flinders

Matthew Flinders was determined to complete the map of the coast of the continent we now call Australia. His story is packed to the gunwales with adventure – storms and shipwrecks, death and danger, and an exciting race to beat the French.
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Black Snake

Was Ned Kelly a villain? Or a hero? What do you think?
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Earth Matters

Our Earth does so much for us. We need to understand what we need to do to love our planet.
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Putting Australia on the Map

Australia is a big place. It covers 7.7 million square kilometres. You'd think it would have been easy to find, but it stayed hidden from everyone but its First Nations People for a very long time.
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Ten Pound Pom

Between 1945 and 1982 around one and a half million people emigrated to Australia under an assisted migration scheme. I was one of them. This is my immigration story.
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Atmospheric

What is putting our climate at risk? What can we do about it?
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The Games

The Games is the inside story of the modern Olympics.
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Fromelles

The story of this battle, and the men who took part in it, is told with compassion and respect, without glorifying war

Non-fiction

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The Dragon Companion

Dragons come in all shapes and sizes – within the pages of The Dragon Companion you will find all sorts of dragonish information, illustrated with gorgeous images by Dean Jones

Picture books

For young adults

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Stagefright

Velvet S Pye is about to begin a really bad day, a miserable year. Things get even worse when she meets the students in her Cultural Studies class. A musical version of a Shakespearian tragedy? They must be kidding.
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Sugar Sugar

Jackie has left Australia with a psychedelic suitcase and a dream to become a world-famous fashion designer. She knows exactly where she’s going and how she’s going to get there. So how does a weekend in Paris send her spinning off course? How does she end up somewhere she couldn’t find on a map?

Middle grade

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Inheritance

The past holds a dark and shocking secret that haunts the land and the people who live there. Nic wants to change history. But is that possible?