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2) Crow country
Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Sadie isn't thrilled when her mother drags her from the city to live in the country town of Boort. But she soon starts making connections - connections with the country, with the past, with two boys, Lachie and Walter, and, most surprisingly, with the every-present crows. When Sadie is tumbled back in time to view a terrible crime, she is pulled into a strange mystery. Can Sadie, Walter and Lachie figure out a way to right old wrongs, or will they...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Inheriting First Uncle's home after he dies tragically and unexpectedly, eleven-year-old Meixing and her family immigrate to the New Land, where it will take all of Meixing's resilience and bravery to finally find her place of belonging in this new world.
4) On the run
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ben, who aspires to be a police officer, struggles to do the right thing when his parents suddenly take him and his little sister "on vacation," and he learns they took a large amount of money that was mistakenly deposited in their bank account.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes life isn't a piece of cake... When Jingwen moves to a new country, he feels like he's landed on Mars. School is torture, making friends is impossible since he doesn't speak English, and he's often stuck looking after his (extremely irritating) little brother, Yanghao. To distract himself from the loneliness, Jingwen daydreams about making all the cakes on the menu of Pie in the Sky, the bakery his father had planned to open before he unexpectedly...
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