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All in the Blue Unclouded Weather: Text Classics by Robin Klein
Category: Children's | 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: Junior 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
Boss of the Pool by Robin Klein
Category: Children's
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 35th Anniversary Edition by Robin Klein
Category: Junior Fiction
Shelley cant believe shes doing this: teaching a boy with an intellectual disability how to swim. Ben cant even get into the poolhes terrified of water... Robin Kleins wonderful novel about learning trust and overcoming prejudice takes the reader on a journey of discovery. Sometimes the most unlikely fr ...Show more
Came Back to Show You I Could Fly by Robin Klein
Category: 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: Junior Fiction | 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: Classic | 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
Gabby's Fair (Solo 2) by Robin Klein
Category: Picture Books
Why does Gabby's brother Matt have to choose what they do at the school fair? Gabby doesn't like the ferris wheel - and she hates the haunted house!