Puffin Little Historian: The Anzacs

Puffin Little Historian: The Anzacs PDF Author: Penguin Random House Australia
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1760897027
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Book Description
Just because we're LITTLE doesn't mean we can't learn BIG facts. Have you ever wondered how the ANZACs got their name? If you're a Little Historian who wants to learn about the ANZACs, you're about to MARCH INTO THE PAST with Puffin Little!

Puffin Little Historian: The Anzacs

Puffin Little Historian: The Anzacs PDF Author: Penguin Random House Australia
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1760897027
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Book Description
Just because we're LITTLE doesn't mean we can't learn BIG facts. Have you ever wondered how the ANZACs got their name? If you're a Little Historian who wants to learn about the ANZACs, you're about to MARCH INTO THE PAST with Puffin Little!

Puffin Little Explorer: The Ocean

Puffin Little Explorer: The Ocean PDF Author: Penguin Random House Australia
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1760897671
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Book Description
Just because we’re little doesn’t mean we can’t learn BIG facts. Have you ever wondered what lives under the waves? If you're a Little Explorer who is curious about the ocean, you're about to go on an EXCITING UNDERWATER ADVENTURE with Puffin Little!

Puffin Little Cook: Snacks

Puffin Little Cook: Snacks PDF Author: Penguin Random House Australia
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1760147710
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Book Description
Just because we’re LITTLE doesn’t mean we can’t learn BIG skills. Have you ever wondered how to make boring veggies into a super-delicious snack? If you’re a Little Cook who wants to serve up yummy treats, get ready for a SNACK-ATTACK with Puffin Little!

Puffin Little Scientist: Robotics

Puffin Little Scientist: Robotics PDF Author: Penguin Random House Australia
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 176014780X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Book Description
Just because we’re little doesn’t mean we can’t learn BIG facts. Have you ever wondered how robots work? If you're a Little Scientist who is curious about robotics, you're about to STEP INTO THE LAB with Puffin Little!

Puffin Little Scientist: The Solar System

Puffin Little Scientist: The Solar System PDF Author: Penguin Random House Australia
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1760897035
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Book Description
Just because we're LITTLE doesn't mean we can't learn BIG facts. Have you ever wondered how long it takes Neptune to orbit the Sun? If you're a Little Scientist who is curious about the solar system, you're about to go on a SUPER SPACE ADVENTURE with Puffin Little!

Aster's Good, Right Things

Aster's Good, Right Things PDF Author: Kate Gordon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648492573
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Eleven-year-old Aster attends a school for gifted kids, but she doesn't think she's special at all. If she was, her mother wouldn't have left. Each day Aster must do a good, right thing-a challenge she sets herself, to make someone else's life better. Nobody can know about her things, because then they won't count. And if she doesn't do them, she's sure everything will go wrong.Then she meets Xavier. He has his own kind of special missions to make life better. When they do these missions together, Aster feels free, but if she stops doing her good, right things will everything fall apart?

Compassion and Empathy in Educational Contexts

Compassion and Empathy in Educational Contexts PDF Author: Georgina Barton
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030189252
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Book Description
This book explores the importance of compassion and empathy within educational contexts. While compassion and empathy are widely recognised as key to living a happy and healthy life, there is little written about how these qualities can be taught to children and young people, or how teachers can model these traits in their own practice. This book shares several models of compassion and empathy that can be implemented in schooling contexts, also examining how these qualities are presented in children’s picture books, films and games. The editors and contributors share personal insights and practical approaches to improve both awareness and use of compassionate and empathetic approaches to others. This book will be of interest and value to all those interested in promoting compassion and empathy within education.

Unlikely in Love

Unlikely in Love PDF Author: Olivia Sherwood
Publisher: Limitless Publishing LLC
ISBN: 9781954194236
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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At twenty-seven, Annabelle Cleaver finds herself sitting in a lawyer's office, listening to the last will and testament of the only relative she's ever loved being read. Stuck in the small Oklahoma town she always had every intention of leaving, she has no idea what comes next. When her sexy high school crush, Wyatt Holloway, returns to town and asks her for a job on her farm, her simple life becomes more complicated than she ever imagined. Wyatt Holloway returned from three tours overseas in the army a broken man. He'd seen and done things that haunt his days and nights. When he discovers Annabelle Cleaver, the beautiful but quirky girl from high school, needs help on her family farm after the passing of her crazy grandma, he finds himself inexplicably drawn to the woman who'd always held his interest. Ten years later, the unspoken spark that existed as teenagers still remains. The question is, will it produce fireworks or a dying flame?

Secret and Special

Secret and Special PDF Author: Will Davies
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 0143784994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Soon after the declaration of war on Japan, a secret military reconnaissance unit was established, based on the British Special Operations Executive (known as SOE) and called the Inter-allied Services Department. The unit was tasked with the role to "obtain and report information of the enemy ... weaken the enemy by sabotage and destruction of morale and to lend aid and assistance to local efforts to the same end in enemy occupied territories." In 1943 it became known under the cover name Special Reconnaissance Department (SRD) and included some British officers who had escaped from Singapore. After arriving in Australia, they assembled in Melbourne, forming the nucleus of ISD and together with some Australians established what became the Z Special Unit. Training began in a number of locations around Australia including on Fraser Island off the Queensland coast, In Broken Bay near Sydney, at Careening Bay in Western Australia, at the “House on the Hill” in Cairns and at East Arm near Darwin. From these training areas and bases, Z Special undertook intelligence gathering and raiding missions throughout Southeast Asia including New Guinea, Singapore, Timor, Malaya, Borneo, Vietnam and the Dutch East Indies. The first operation was Jaywick in September 1943. Led by a 28 year old officer from the Gordon Highlanders, Captain Ivan Lyon. Using an old Japanese fishing boat renamed Krait this captured vessel was re-fitted and provisioned for a voyage from Australia to just south of Singapore where it released six commandos in three folding kayaks to attack Japanese shipping in the harbour. They placed limpet mines on several Japanese ships sinking 40,000 tons of shipping. After the successful attack, they paddled south, were picked up by the Krait and successfully returned to Australia. This was followed by Operation Rimau again led by Lyon but this time things went very wrong very early. Identified, they made a fighting withdrawal but all of the raiding party were shot or captured, with the last ten being executed just before the end of the war. Important in Z Special operations were a number of vessels designated “snake boats”. Four 66’ modified trawlers were constructed as well as a range of Asian vessels that allowed their operation in South East Asian areas of operation. One Z Special, the last in PNG, set out on the night of the 11 April 1945. Eight operatives were landed on the Japanese held island of Muschu about five kilometres off the coast near Wewak to determine the status of two 140mm Japanese naval guns that had been placed there. These guns would prove dangerous to planned naval landings at Wewak, and allied command needed to know if these were operational. The operatives were launched in four double folding kayaks from a HTML fast crash boat but the current carried them away from their landing position and the surf capsized their boats. The men swam ashore but both their radio and their signal torches had been destroyed and the men had no way of connecting with the return crash boat. Soon their lost equipment was found by the Japanese and a massive search with 1,000 troops scoured the island. Quite soon seven of the eight men had been captured, killed or died trying to swim to the mainland and only one man, Sergeant ‘Mick’ Dennis remained. Over the next three days he continued a one man war, fighting off Japanese patrols and living off the land. Unable to do this for long, he took to the dangerous shark and crocodile infested waters and with the aid of a log, paddled to the mainland. Landing on a Japanese controlled beach, he snuck ashore and after further firefights and a difficult journey travelling west, he finally was found by an Australian patrol. Mick Dennis was able to provide valuable information and for his service and bravery, was awarded a Military Medal. During the course of the war, Z Special Unit carried out 81 covert operations in the Southwest Pacific theatre. While the unit was disbanded after the end of the war, many of its techniques would be modified and used by Australian Special Forces to this day.

The Shark Caller

The Shark Caller PDF Author: Dianne Wolfer
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 0143780549
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179

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Only a twin from a shark calling family can appease the ancestors and bring a community back together in this powerful and haunting story. Isabel is on a plane heading back to her island birthplace in Papua New Guinea. Izzy is looking forward to seeing her family again, but there’s another tragic reason for the trip. Izzy’s twin brother, Ray, died in a freak diving accident, and Izzy and her mum are taking his ashes home for traditional death ceremonies. After they arrive, Izzy realises things have changed since their last visit. Logging threatens the community’s way of life and sharks no longer answer the song of the shark callers. Izzy’s cousin Noah explains that the clan needs someone to undertake a traditional diving ritual. The person must be a twin from the shark calling lineage. The dive will be perilous. And Izzy is the last twin. Will she have the courage to attempt the dive? And what deep, dark secrets will the ocean reveal if she does?