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  Toad: Book 1

  Toad Rage

  by Morris Gleitzman

  Limpy’s family reckons humans don’t hate cane toads, but Limpy knows otherwise. He’s spotted the signs: the cross looks, the unkind comments, the way they squash cane toads with their cars. Limpy is desperate to save his species from ending up as pancakes. Somehow he must make humans see how fabulous cane toads really are. Risking everything, he sets off on a wart-tinglingly dangerous and daring journey to . . .... (more)
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  Once, Then, Now & After: Book 1

  Once

  by Morris Gleitzman

  Grade 4–7—Ten-year-old Felix and his young friend Zelda are on the run again in Morris Gleitzman's sequel to Once (Bolinda Audio, 2005). In the first book, the two children escape from a Polish orphanage that has been commandeered by Nazi soldiers. They find refuge with a kind dentist, only to be discovered and put on a train headed for the death camps. This book opens with Felix and Zelda fleeing from the Nazi... (more)
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  Boy Overboard

  by Morris Gleitzman

  A fantastic children's book filled with adventure, surprise, laughter and sadness. It gives a fascinating insight into the lives of refugees coming to Australia!
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  Toad: Book 2

  Toad Heaven

  by Morris Gleitzman

  Limpy is on a quest to find toad heaven. A place where cane toads won’t be blown up with bike pumps or bashed over the head with folding chairs. Limpy’s determined to find this place if it takes him the rest of his life, but his plans are waylaid when he’s kidnapped by some sinister-looking humans and tossed into a bucket. Will Limpy be able to save cane toads? Will he be able to find toad heaven? First he has to... (more)
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  Two Weeks with the Queen

  by Morris Gleitzman

  When Colin's brother Luke becomes seriously ill with leukemia, he is determined to get the best help possible. He's sent to stay with relatives in London and works to go to the very top - the Queen first and, failing her, the best cancer doctor in the world. He is helped by a young man whose partner is dying of Aids - the ending cannot be happy, but is joyous in a way because it offers comfort and truth. The story... (more)
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  Once, Then, Now & After

  After

  by Morris Gleitzman

  Following a heartbreaking struggle to survive as a Jewish child in Germany, Felix faces perhaps his greatest challenge - to find hope when he's lost almost everything. As Europe goes through the final agonizing stages of the war, Felix struggles to reconcile hatred and healing. He's helped by a new friend, but if he should lose her as well...
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  Grace

  by Morris Gleitzman

  In the beginning there was me and Mum and Dad and the twins. And talk about happy families, we were bountiful. But it came to pass that I started doing sins. And lo, that's when all our problems began. In this brilliant story, centered on Grace Hillgrove and her family,
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  TWO WEEKS WITH THE QUEEN The Play

  by Mary Morris

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  Toad: Book 4

  Toad Away

  by Morris Gleitzman

  Limpy the Toad has a vision. A world where cane toads and humans play mudslides together. And help each other with the shopping. And share their slug sauce and maggot moisturizer. But how does a young cane toad discover the ancient secret of living in peace with humans? In his third adventure, Limpy will travel all the way to South America's Amazon rain forest to find out.
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  Once, Then, Now & After: Book 3

  Now

  by Morris Gleitzman

  Morris Gleitzman's acclaimed story of friends Felix and Zelda in Nazi-occupied Poland has captured the hearts and minds of readers worldwide. In "Now", he delivers the final chapter, bringing this most moving of stories into the present day.
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  Girl Underground

  by Morris Gleitzman

  Trying to fit in at a posh new school is really hard when your loving and lovable family also happen to be criminals. Bridget is succeeding pretty well and has even made a friend, Menzies, the son of the federal Minister for National Development. Then she finds out about Menzies' penfriend, Jamal, a refugee kid from Afghanistan held in a detention centre. When daring appeals to the government and the prime... (more)
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  Misery Guts

  by Morris Gleitzman

  Keith Shipley lives in England. It?s wet and dreary, and his parents are a couple of misery guts. They need cheering up, and Keith sets out to do just that. Then he realizes the only thing that will really make them happy is to move halfway around the world to Paradise. Trouble is, it takes a disaster to get them there. A disaster that could turn even the once cheerful Keith into a misery guts.
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  Toad: Book 3

  Toad Surprise

  by Morris Gleitzman

  Morris Gleitzman was born in Lincolnshire and moved to Australia in his teens. He worked as a paperboy, a shelf-stacker, a frozen chicken thawer, an assistant to a fashion designer and more before taking a degree in Professional Writing at Canberra College and becoming a writer. He has written for TV, stage, newspapers and magazines but is best known for his hugely successful children's books including Two Weeks... (more)
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  Once & Then

  by Morris Gleitzman

  That's the good thing with stories. There's always a chance they can come true. Felix is lucky. Unlike the other children in the orphanage, he's certain his parents will come back for him one day. And whatever the Nazis do and however many books they burn, Felix's imagination provides him and his companions with an endless supply of stories - stories that protect them when they're on the run, shield them from the... (more)
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  Worry Warts

  by Morris Gleitzman

  Worried because his parents' constant fighting has been aggravated by their financial troubles, twelve-year-old Keith decides to solve the problem by running away to pick up a fortune in the Australian opal fields.
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  Once, Then, Now & After: Book 2

  Then

  by Morris Gleitzman

  Felix and Zelda have escaped the train to the death camp, but where do they go now? They're two runaway kids in Nazi-occupied Poland. Danger lies at every turn of the road.   With the help of a woman named Genia and their active imaginations, Felix and Zelda find a new home and begin to heal, forming a new family together. But can it last?   Morris Gleitzman's winning characters will tug at readers' hearts as... (more)
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  Grace

  by Morris Gleitzman

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  Grace

  by Morris Gleitzman

  In the beginning there was me and Mum and Dad and the twins. And talk about happy families, we were bountiful. But it came to pass that I started doing sins. And lo, that's when all our problems began.
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  Tickled Onions (and other funny stories)

  by Morris Gleitzman

  Well the descroption and charactors are hard because there are short stories in it, not one big book. I'm sorry in the first sentence area I didn't put 'I just don't know when to stop' otherwise there would be a bit of a problem(if you have read that story, you would know!)
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  Worm Story: Library Edition

  by Morris Gleitzman

  Wilton has no tendrils, no friends and no idea why he's so different to all the other microbes in his stretch of the intestine. But now he's had enough. He's going where no microbe has gone before. To the end of the known world, where the sludge gods dwell. To discover if he truly is a microbe. Or maybe a worm? Or possibly just a noodle that can talk? After an epic journey, Wilton and his new friend Algy find... (more)