2021 Teacher Notes

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Short List Notes 2021

 

 

 

 

February 2021

March 2021

April 2021

Picture Story

Picture Story

Picture Story
 Jetty Jumping  The March of the Ants The Katha Chest
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 Turning Cartwheels  Salih Too Many Ducks 
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 Walking Your Human  Blue Flower Good Night, Ivy Bright 
 - Publishers Notes  - Publishers Notes  - Publishers Notes
 Star of Anise  What Do You Call Grandma? Amira’s Magpie 
 Joe and the Stars  Mo and Crow  - Publishers Notes
 Reggie Red  - Publishers Notes Oswald Messweather 
 - Publishers Notes  9 Things to Remember (and one to forget)  - Publishers Notes
 - Activity Sheets  - Publishers Notes  - Colouring In Sheet
     - Colours Match Emotions Worksheet
     - Ways to Tidy up Our World Worksheet
     

Early Childhood

Early Childhood

Early Childhood
 Let’s Go, Little Roo  Bedtime is Boring Upside-Down Friday 
 Super-Me  Early One Morning  - Publishers Notes
 - Activity Sheets  - Publishers Notes Not So Busy Bee
 - Meditation Exercise    - Publishers Notes
 Float or Sink?   Don’t Forget 
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Fiction Blurbs

Fiction Blurbs

Fiction Blurbs

Primary Fiction Blurbs

Primary Fiction Blurbs

Primary Fiction Blurbs
 Amari and the Night Brothers  The Golden Tower Tish 
 Footprints On The Moon  - Publishers Notes  - Publishers Notes
 - Publishers Notes  School of Monsters Fozia and the Quest of Prince Zal 
 Balloon Girls  Super Geeks - Fish and Chips  - Publishers Notes
 - Publishers Notes  Pet Sitters Ready for Anything The Puzzling Pearls: Plum and Woo #1 
 The World Between Blinks  - Publishers Notes Heroes of the Secret Underground
 - Publishers Notes  Introducing D’Lila LaRue  - Publishers Notes
 The Secret Explorers and the Lost Whales  The Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel Paws 
 Little Gem  - Publishers Notes Huda and Me 
 - Publishers Notes  Six Seconds The Newcastle Earthquake  
     

Secondary Fiction Blurbs

Secondary Fiction Blurbs

Secondary Fiction Blurbs
 Growing Up Disabled in Australia   The Edge of Thirteen The True Colour of a Little White Lie 
 Influence  - Publishers Notes Dirt Circus League 
 Game Changer  The Gaps  - Publishers Notes
 The Hatmakers  - Publishers Notes When We Are Invisible 
 Tiger Daughter  Waking Romeo  - Publishers Notes
 The Girls I’ve Been  Crossed Spaces A Million Things 
 The Sad Ghost Club  Harmony  - Publishers Notes
   Violet Black Off The Map 
   Tell Me Why Sunburnt Veils 
     - Publishers Notes
    The Prison Healer
     

Lower Secondary Add On

Lower Secondary Add On

Lower Secondary Add On
 Footprints On The Moon  The Golden Tower  Heroes of the Secret Underground
 Balloon Girls  The Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel  Paws
 The World Between Blinks  Six Seconds The Newcastle Earthquake  Huda and Me
 Amari and the Night Brothers    Holocaust
     Everything We Keep
     

Primary Non-Fiction

Primary Non-Fiction

Primary Non-Fiction
February Non Fiction
March Non Fiction
April Non Fiction
     

May 2021

June 2021

July 2021

Picture Story

Picture Story

Picture Story
 Bear and Rat  Grumble Boats  The Incredibly Busy Mind of Bowen     Bartholomew  Crisp
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 Common Wealth  A Pair of Pears and an Orange  Lucy and Copper
 Arno and His Horse  - Publishers Notes  Get Back In Your Books!
 - Publishers Notes  Where The Heart Is  The Very First You
 A Human for Kingsley  - Publishers Notes  - Publishers Notes
 - Publishers Notes  The Colour of Music  
 Pear of Hope  - Publishers Notes  
 - Publishers Notes  Sea Country  
 Daisy and Bear and the Very Ordinary Day  - Publishers Notes  
 - Publishers Notes  The Imagineer  
 I’m Fabulous Crab!  - Publishers Notes  
 - Publishers Notes    
     

Early Childhood

Early Childhood

Early Childhood
 Where Do The Stars Go?  The Silly Seabed Song  No Titles This Month
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 Florence and Fox    
 - Publishers Notes    
 Let’s Build a House    
 - Publishers Notes    
     

Fiction Blurbs

Fiction Blurbs

Fiction Blurbs

Primary Fiction Blurbs

Primary Fiction Blurbs

Primary Fiction Blurbs
 Eliza Vanda’s Button Box  The Right Way to Rock  Mina and the Whole Wide World
 - Publishers Notes  Little Gem and the Mysterious Letters  - Publishers Notes
 Wednesday Weeks and the Tower of Shadows  The Ballad of Melodie Rose  The Best Friend Promise: MerTales 1
 A Glasshouse of Stars  The Boy Stepped Through Time  Bella and the Voyaging House
 - Publishers Notes    - Publishers Notes
 Elsewhere Girls    Space Kids - Sabotage
 Night Ride into Danger    - Publishers Notes
     Shockingly Good Stories
     - Publishers Notes
     

Secondary Fiction Blurbs

Secondary Fiction Blurbs

Secondary Fiction Blurbs
 Common Wealth  One Hundred Days  A Weekend With Oscar
 The Other Side of Perfect  Echo In The Memory  Are You There, Buddha?
 Can’t Say It Went to Plan  - Publishers Notes  Rainfish
 - Publishers Notes  100 Remarkable Feats of Xander Maze  - Publishers Notes
 The Ones We’re Meant to Find  Instructions For Dancing  Skin Deep
 - Publishers Notes  The Lucky List  Time Catchers: When Days Tilt
 Oddity    Everything I Thought I Knew
 Shackleton's Endurance    
     

Lower Secondary Add On

Lower Secondary Add On

Lower Secondary Add On
 Wednesday Weeks and the Tower of Shadows  The Right Way to Rock  The Memory Thief
 A Glasshouse of Stars  The Boy Who Stepped Through Time  Storm Warning
 Elsewhere Girls  The Lanternist  
 Night Ride into Danger    
     

Primary Non-Fiction

Primary Non-Fiction

Primary Non-Fiction
May Non Fiction - No titles this month
June Non Fiction
July Non Fiction
     

August 2021

September 2021

October 2020

Picture Story

Picture Story

Picture Story
 The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name  Drover  The Accidental Penguin Hotel
 - Publishers Notes  - Publishers Notes  - Publishers Notes
 Frankie and the Fossil  A Boy, His Bear and a Bully  What If…?
 - Publishers Notes  - Publishers Notes  Peek and Boo
 The Spectacular Suit  Big Dog, Little Dog  - Publishers Notes
 - Publishers Notes  - Publishers Notes  Norton and the Borrowing Bear
 Bedtime Sorted!  Max and Worry - Follow Your Feelings  - Publishers Notes
 - Publishers Notes  - Publishers Notes  Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees
 I Wonder    Horrible Harriet and the Terrible Tantrum
 - Publishers Notes    - Publishers Notes
     The Curiosities
     - Publishers Notes
     The Wall
     - Publishers Notes
     Cat Dog
     - Publishers Notes
     

Early Childhood

Early Childhood

Early Childhood
 Where Are You, Magoo?  Fire Truck Santa  The Most Magnificent Thing
 There’s Only One Grandpa Like You  Babies At The Billabong  Noni the Pony Counts to a Million
 - Publishers Notes  - Publishers Notes  - Publishers Notes
 Little One    How to Make Friends: A Bear's Guide
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     Winston and The Indoor Cat
     - Publishers Notes
     Jumping Joeys
     - Publishers Notes
     

Fiction Blurbs

Fiction Blurbs

Fiction Blurbs

Primary Fiction Blurbs

Primary Fiction Blurbs

Primary Fiction Blurbs
 Mim and the Baffling Bully  Bailey Finch Takes a Stand  My Brother Ben
 - Publishers Notes  - Publishers Notes  - Publishers Notes
 It's Owl Good  The Ava Show  Dragon Skin
 Devils in Danger  - Publishers Notes  The Magic of Magnolia Moon
 - Publishers Notes  Cranky Chicken  RapperBee: Poems to give you a buzz
 Azmina the Gold Glitter Dragon  - Publishers Notes  - Publishers Notes
 The Good Times of Pelican Rise - Save the Joeys  The School For Talking Pets  
 - Publishers Notes  Always  
   - Publishers Notes  
   The Song of Lewis Carmichael  
     

Secondary Fiction Blurbs

Secondary Fiction Blurbs

Secondary Fiction Blurbs
 Half My Luck  Evacuation Road  The Break
 - Publishers Notes  - Publishers Notes  How To Repaint a Life
 The Inheritance  It's Not You, It's Me  - Publishers Notes
 Underground  Banjo Tully  self / less
 Sugar Town Queens  - Publishers Notes  - Publishers Notes
 The Thaumagician's Revenge  Anything But Fine  The Gilded Cage
 Trouble Is My Business  - Publishers Notes  If Not Us
 Muddy People  Road Tripping with Pearl Nash  - Publishers Notes
 The Monster of Her Age  Take Me With You When You Go  Within The Ward
 The Boyband Murder Mystery    - Publishers Notes
 The Opposite of Disappearing    Dark Rise
 Ground Zero    The Great Dream Robbery
 Girls in Boys’ Cars    
     

Lower Secondary Add On

Lower Secondary Add On

Lower Secondary Add On
 Coastwatcher  The What On Earth Institute  Seven Wherewithal Way
 The Wolf’s Howl: A Maven & Reeve Mystery  Wednesday Weeks and the Crown of Destiny  My Brother Ben
 Exit Through The Gift Shop  The School Between Winter and Fairyland  - Publishers Notes
 The Summer I Robbed a Bank  Mel and Shell  
   - Publishers Notes  
   The Song of Lewis Carmichael  
   Always  
   - Publishers Notes  
     

Primary Non-Fiction

Primary Non-Fiction

Primary Non-Fiction
August Non Fiction
September Non Fiction
October Non Fiction
 - Publishers Notes - One Potaroo    - Publishers Notes - The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Peculiar Pairs in Nature
 - Publishers Notes - Power Up    
     

 

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