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All in the Blue Unclouded Weather: Text Classics by Robin Klein
Category: Young Adult | Series: Text Classics
All in the Blue Unclouded Weather begins the story of the Melling sisters, four girls growing up in an Australian country town in the post war years. Vivienne is the youngest, always the last to wear the hand-me-down clothes-after Grace and Heather and Cathy-and always longing for something new and spec ...Show more
Boss of the Pool by Robin Klein
Category: Children's Fiction
Shelley is angry about having to go to work with her mother, who works in a hostel for children with intellectual disabilities. Shelley wants to stay home or go to a friend's place. She has the indoor pool at the hostel to herself, but gradually becomes interested in teaching Ben to overcome his fear of ...Show more
Boss of the Pool by Robin Klein
Category: Children's Fiction
You won't drown! Look, I'll come up there and hold your hand ... I'm the boss of this pool and I don't let it drown people." Shelley can't believe she's doing this: teaching a boy with an intellectual disability how to swim. Ben can't even get into the poo
Came Back to Show You I Could Fly by Robin Klein
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Puffin Books
A description of how drugs can affect those who come into contact with them. It is also a portrayal of relationships and love and of ordinary people battling against the odds. The author won the 1989 Australian Human Rights Award for Literature and the 1990 Australian Children's Book of the Year.
Came Back to Show You I Could Fly: Text Classics by Robin Klein
Category: Young Adult | Series: Text Classics
Seymour is bored and lonely, and running from a gang of kids when he opens a back-lane gate. And there is Angie. She is older than Seymour, confident, cool and alluring, and she treats him with the affection of an older sister. Seymour is captivated-through Angie he is awakened to the fun and adventure ...Show more
Dresses of Red and Gold by Robin Klein
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
The Melling sisters and their mother are preparing for a wedding. Cathy is to be bridesmaid and her dress is a thing of awe and beauty, but not in Cathy's eyes-she hates the idea of being a bridesmaid. Vivienne would love to wear it, and perhaps she will. Dresses of Red and Gold, the second book in the ...Show more
Green Ideas Slipcase by Greta Thunberg; Robin Wall Kimmerer; Dai Qing; Wangari Maathai; Jared Diamond; Wendell Berry; Edward O. Wilson; James Lovelock; Masanobu Fukuoka; Arne Næss; Rachel Carson; Naomi Klein; Aldo Leopold; Timothy Morton; George Monbiot; Bill McKibben; Amitav Ghosh; Tim Flannery; Terry Tempest Williams; Michael Pollan
Category: Philosophy
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement - now in one complete setOver the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Thei ...Show more
Hating Alison Ashley by Robin Klein; Felicity Price (Read by)
Category: Audio
'There was one kid, Alison Ashley, and becuase no one was sitting next to me, Miss Belmont put Alison Ashley there. And from the first day I hated her.'Alison Ashley is sheer perfection in every department. She has everything: intelligence, good looks, a wealthy family and perfect manners and Erica hate ...Show more
Hating Alison Ashley by Robin Klein
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Puffin Books
Classmates Erica Yurgen and Alison Ashley vie with each other to become the undisputed star of their class.
Hating Alison Ashley (Australian Children's Classics) by Robin Klein; Allison Colpoys (Illustrator)
Category: Young Adult | Series: Australian Children's Classics
'There was one kid, Alison Ashley, and becuase no one was sitting next to me, Miss Belmont put Alison Ashley there. And from the first day I hated her.'Alison Ashley is sheer perfection in every department. She has everything: intelligence, good looks, a wealthy family and perfect manners and Erica hate ...Show more
Hating Alison Ashley (Movie Tie-in) by Robin Klein
Category: Children's Fiction
Erica Yurken knew she was destined for great things. Never in any doubt about her own genius, she felt superior to everyone at notorious Barringa East! That is, until Alison Ashley unexpectedly turned up. This novel will appeal to all old and new fans of the original book, and fans of the talented Delta ...Show more
Hating Alison Ashley audio by Robin Klein
Category: Audio
There was one kid, Alison Ashley, and becuase no one was sitting next to me, Miss Belmont put Alison Ashley there. And from the first day I hated her. Alison Ashley is sheer perfection in every department. She has everything: intelligence, good looks, a wealthy family and perfect manners and Erica hates ...Show more