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Dragonfly Song (Wendy Orr, A&U) 

dragonfly_song_cover Thursday, 5 May 2016
Born into privilege that is swiftly taken from her, Aissa learns early how painful life can be. In servitude at the age of four, never speaking and frequently mistreated, she...

Magrit (Lee Battersby, Walker Books) 

magrit Thursday, 4 February 2016
Magrit is nearly 10 and lives in an abandoned cemetery with her skeletal mentor Master Puppet. One day her simple life is disrupted forever by the arrival of a tiny...

Iris and the Tiger (Leanne Hall, Text) 

Iris and the Tiger Thursday, 8 October 2015
Twelve-year-old Iris Chen-Taylor is on a mission from her parents: she’s been sent to visit her Great Aunt Ursula in Spain to discover who will inherit her grand estate, and...