Carn the Crows (Lorraine Wilson, Paul Harvey, David O'Brien)

Carn the Crows

Lorraine Wilson

Illustrated by Paul Harvey & David O'Brien

Blurb: I barrack for the Crows. I think all of South Australia barracks for the Crows. 

ISBN: 1863917640 (Paperback)

Year: 1995

Publisher: Reed

Pages: 24 (Fiction)

Links

1. Author's official site

2. Google books page

3. Official website of the Crows

4. List of other books in the series

5. Article on the author

The Vancouver Canucks Quizbook - Puzzles, Games, Trivia, Facts and Fun (The Puzzling Sports Institute)

The Vancouver Canucks Quizbook - Puzzles, Games, Trivia, Facts and Fun

The Puzzling Sports Institute 

Blurb: Catch Canucks fever and celebrate 40 years of Vancouver Canucks hockey! This must-have collection - jam-packed with puzzles, crosswords, games, trivia, facts and fun for towel-waving fans of all ages - will have you Luu-ing and riding your stick like Tiger Williams in no time. From Harold and the Steamer to Gino and the Russian Rocket, from Thomas Gradin to the record-setting Sedins, from Trevor Linden and the '94 Cup run to the high-scoring Westcoast Express, it's all here in this exciting trivia book that will bring hours of fun and memories to every loyal Canucks fan.

ISBN: 9780889712508 (Paperback)

Year: 2010

Publisher: Nightwood Editions

Pages: 77 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Publisher's page

3. Buy from the Book Depository

4. Canucks Official site

5. Wikipedia page for the Canucks

Go Dockers (Lorraine Wilson, Paul Harvey & David O'Brien)

Go Dockers

Written by Lorraine Wilson

Illustrated by Paul Harvey & David O'Brien

Blurb: Fremantle is the newest club in the AFl. Many of our players come from local teams. I've joined the Kid Dockers Club. Sometimes KDC members are invited onto the oval after training.

ISBN: 1863917632 (Paperback)

Year: 1995

Publisher: Reed

Pages: 24 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Bookworld

2. Google books page

3. Official website of the Fremantle Football Club

4. Wikipedia page for Freo

5. Follow the team on Twitter

Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers - The Ninth Epic Novel (Dav Pilkey)

Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers - The Ninth Epic Novel

Dav Pilkey

Blurb: When we last saw George and Harold, they were headed to jail for the rest of their lives. What could be worse? How about being pulled from prison by a time-travelling tyrant named Tippy Tinkletrousers! Now the boys are taking a trip back in time to the carefree days of kindergarten, when the scariest thing they had to face was not evil mad scientists or alien cafeteria ladies but a sixth-grade bully named Kipper Krupp, the nephew of their clueless school principal. And because George and Harold don't invent Captain Underpants until they're in fourth grade, the clever kindergartners are on their own. Will their brains be enough to beat the bully?!!

ISBN: 9780545175340 (Hardback)

Year: 2012

Publisher: Scholastic

Pages: 302 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Wikipedia page for the series

3. Goodreads page

4. Review of the book

5. Wiki for the book

The Birthday Party of No Return! - Goosebumps Hall of Horrors #6 (R.L. Stine)

The Birthday Party of No Return! - Goosebumps Hall of Horrors #6

R.L. Stine

Blurb: Unhappy birthday to you!

Lee Hargrove only wants one thing - to win a scholarship to Summer Sports Camp. His school is holding a competition and the winner gets to attend the camp for free. Lee is one of the favourites to win along with his friend Cory 'Lucky Duck' Duckworth and another athletic classmate, Laura Grodin. Laura is good... for a girl, but how can anyone compete with Cory's good-luck streak? Lee has an idea and he's about to give Cory an unforgettable birthday present that will really get the party started!

ISBN: 9780545289382 (Paperback)

Year: 2012

Publisher: Scholastic

Pages: 132 (Fiction)

Links

1. Review of the book

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Goodreads page

4. Buy from Barnes and Noble

5. Wikipedia page for the series

Magic & Tech: Book of Elements - Skylanders Spyro's Adventure (Shubrook Bros. Creative)

Magic & Tech: Book of Elements - Skylanders Spyro's Adventure

Shubrook Bros. Creative

Blurb: Magic! Tech! Sheep! Other stuff! 

Join your guides Hugo and Flynn on this journey behind two of Skylands' vital Elements. 

ISBN: 9781409391227 (Paperback)

Year: 2012

Publisher: Sunbird

Pages: 80 (Fiction)

Links

1. Publisher's page

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Buy from the Book Depository

4. Wiki on the Skylanders books

5. Official Skylanders website

Fair Share: Country and City in Australia - Quarterly Essay Issue 42 (Judith Brett)

Fair Share: Country and City in Australia - Quarterly Essay Issue 42

Judith Brett

Blurb: Once the country believed itself to be the true face of Australia: sunburnt men and capable women raising crops and children, enduring isolation and a fickle environment, carrying the nation on their sturdy backs. For almost 200 years after white settlement began, city Australia needed the country: to feed it, to earn its export income, to fill the empty land, to provide it with distinctive images of the nation being built in the great south land. But Australia no longer rides on the sheep's back, and since the 1980s, when 'economic rationalism' became the new creed, the country has felt abandoned, its contribution to the nation dismissed, its historic purpose forgotten. 

In Fair Share, Judith Brett argues that our federation was built on the idea of a big country and a fair share, no matter where one lived. We also looked to the bush for our legends and we still look to it for our food. In late 2010, with the country independents deciding who would form federal government, it seemed that rural and regional Australia's time had come again. But, as Murray-Darling water reforms shows, the politics of dependence are complicated. The question remains: what will be the fate of the country in an era of user-pays, water cutbacks, climate change, droughts and flooding rains? What are the prospects for a new compact between country and city in Australia in the twenty-first century?

ISBN: 9781863955263 (Paperback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Black Inc.

Pages: 91 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Official site for the issue

2. Buy from Readings

3. Buy from Penguin Books

4. Review of the essay

5. Blog on the essay

Romance Dawn - One Piece Vol. 1 (Eiichiro Oda)

Romance Dawn - One Piece Vol. 1

Eiichiro Oda

Blurb: East Blue Part 1

As a child, Monkey D Luffy was inspired to become a pirate by listening to the tales of the buccaneer 'Red-Haired' Shanks. But his life changed when Luffy accidentally ate the fruit of the Gum-Gum Tree and gained the power to stretch like rubber... at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, still vowing to become the king of the pirates, Lufft sets out on his adventure...one guy alone in a rowboat, in search of the legendary 'One Piece,' said to be the greatest treasure in the world...

ISBN: 9781569319017 (Paperback)

Year: 1997

Publisher: Viz Media

Pages: 207 (Fiction)

Links

1. Goodreads page

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Buy from the Book Depository

4. YouTube review of the book

5. One Piece Wiki