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2) Breathe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
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Although Undine is excited about leaving Tasmania for a trip to see her father in Greece, she is also conflicted about using the magic that wells up inside her and confused about her personal relationships, including the one with her best friend Trout.
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English
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Emma Blaxland-Hunter, a prima ballerina from London, must re-evaluate her life after doctors declare her knee unfit for dancing. At the behest of her mother, Emma returns home to Sydney, where she discovers her affluent and loving grandmother, Beattie Blaxland, has left her an inheritance: Wildflower Hill, an old sheep farm in Tasmania. When Emma settles in temporarily to clean out Wildflower Hill and sell it, she discovers a photo of her grandmother...
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English
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Rich and Sandy were once environmental activists, part of a world-famous blockade in Tasmania to save the wilderness. Now, twenty-five years later, they have both settled into the uncomfortable compromises of middle age, although they've gone about it in very different ways. About the only thing they have in common these days is their fifteen-year-old daughter, Sophie. When Rich decides to take Sophie, whom he hardly knows, on a trek into the Tasmanian...
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English
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Reverend Geoffrey Wilson believes the Garden of Eden was on the island of Tasmania. His traveling partner, Dr. Thomas Potter, is developing a revolutionary and sinister thesis of his own about the races of men. These passengers are perhaps only slightly more odd than the crew of the ship Sincerity as they sale around Cape Horn and across the Indian Ocean toward the other side of the globe.
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English
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Sarah Avery's reckless behavior has cost her job, boyfriend, and the independence she craves. Home for the holidays in the Bay of Fires, a tiny seaside town on the Tasmanian coast, she hopes for time to reflect on all that's gone wrong. Those hopes are crushed when she discovers the body of a young female backpacker washed up on the shore. Journalist Hall Flynn, haunted by recent failures and yearning for a fresh start, is determined to do whatever...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From the celebrated author of Swimming at Night, a powerful and moving saga of one woman's struggle to overcome her husband's death and uncover his dark, mysterious past. Eva has only been married for eight months when her husband, Jackson, is swept to his death while fishing. Weighed down by confusion and sorrow, Eva decides to take leave of her midwifery practice in London and visit Jackson's estranged family in Tasmania with the hope of grieving...
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English
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"Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on a single day when a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that haunts him still resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal town he once called home. Kieran's parents are struggling in a community which is bound, for better or worse, to the sea that is both a lifeline and a threat. Between them all is his absent brother Finn. When a body is discovered on the beach,...
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English
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Brothers Joe, Harry and Miles live with their father, an abalone fisherman, on the south-east coast of Tasmania. Everyday their dad battles the unpredictable ocean to make a living. He is a hard man, a bitter drinker who harbours a devastating secret that is destroying him. Unlike Joe, Harry and Miles are too young to leave home and so are forced to live under the dark cloud of their father's mood, trying to stay as invisible as possible whenever...
11) The hunter
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Language
English
Description
When the thylacine, the legendary Tasmanian tiger, long thought extinct, is spotted in the vast wilderness of Tasmania, M, a hunter whose task is to find the creature for a multinational biotech company, embarks on a fateful and obsessive search for the mythic animal.
13) Little devils
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When their mother fails to return one night, three Tasmanian Devil cubs venture out of their den in search of food and, by doing what Tasmanian Devils are supposed to do, manage to save their mother from a trap.
15) Into that forest
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Two girls survive a terrible flood in the Tasmanian bush and are rescued by a pair of Tasmanian tigers who raise them in the wild. Their story of survival is remarkable, as they adapt to the life of the tiger, learning to hunt and to communicate without the use of human language. When they are discovered and returned to civilization, neither can adapt to being fully human after their extraordinary experience.
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