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It's True! a Bushfire Burned My Dunny Down by Tracey McGuire
Category: unmapped | Series: It's True! S.
Including everything you ever wanted to know about bushfires, this is the ninth book in the popular new non-fiction series, "It's True!". Psst! It's true! This is the best book on Bushfires you'll ever read! A firestorm fuelled by roaring winds can turn everything in its path to ash. Houses are destroye ...Show more
It's True! the Romans Were the Real Gangsters by Sister John
Category: Children's | Series: It's True! S.
You're about to discover that the Romans were truly gory. This book is full of lying, cheating, stabbing, vomiting and general bad behaviour. There are severed heads on spears, messy massacres and streets flowing with blood. Find out who threw mud, who wore a purple toga and who was just plain crazy! Ag ...Show more
Pirates Ate Rats (It's True!) by Heather Catchpole
Category: Education | Series: It's True!
Did you know that 19 September is Talk Like a Pirate Day? Avast there, me hearties! From the Mediterranean sailors who kidnapped Julius Caesar to Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, this 27th book in the It's True! Series captures the lives of pirates. Often hungry, desperate and brutal, they had their own cod ...Show more
Space Turns You into Spaghetti: It's True! by Heather Catchpole
Category: Education | Series: IT'S TRUE!
PSSST! "It's True!" This is the best book on SPACE you'll ever read! The last frontier is a dangerous place. Watch out for exploding stars, boiling planets and robotic explorers. Beware of black holes, white dwarfs and red giants. This book will send your brain into orbit. Find out what life would be li ...Show more
Sport Stinks (It's True!) by Justin Kemp & Damian Farrow
Category: Non Fiction | Series: It's True!
Packed with amazing facts about sport, this is the twenty-fourth title in the fantastic non-fiction series, It's True!Find out why tennis players have to be mind readers, what happened in the weirdest Olympic marathon, and how to bend it like Beckham. Do you have what it takes to run, jump, swim, throw, ...Show more
Squids Suck (It's True!) by Nicki Greenberg
Category: Children's | Series: It's True!
From terrifying monsters to dainty rockpool-dwellers, squid, octopus and their relatives are truly extraordinary creatures.
There Are Bugs in Your Bed:It's True! by Heather Catchpole
Category: Children's | Series: It's True! S.
Everything you wanted to know about bugs, this is one of the first six titles launching the fantastic new non-fiction series, It is True!; Psst! It's true! This is the best book on BUGS you'll ever read!Bloodsucking vampires, deadly dust-dwellers, toilet terrors and things that squish, squirm and slime. ...Show more
We Came From Slime (It's True!) by Kenneth McNamara
Category: Fiction | Series: It's True!
In the days before the dinosaurs, there were some seriously weird creatures living on Earth. Fossil hunters (who are probably weird themselves) find remains of these animals in ancient rocks and work out which were the hunters or the hunted. Read about life before dinosaurs.
Women Were Warriors (It's True!) by Carol Jones
Category: Fiction | Series: It's True!
This work is a series of eye-opening profiles and stories about women as warriors, from a Roman empress to an Irish pirate, from a woman samurai to a Russian fighter pilot in World War II. Psst! It's true! This is the best book on warrior women you'll ever read! Warning: This is not a book about sai ...Show more
You Can Make Your Own Jokes (It's True!) by Sharon Holt
Category: Non Fiction | Series: It's True!
A mixture of how-to and history, this book sets out the rules of joke-making and joke-telling (with lots of hilarious examples) and explores our fascination with japes, jibes, jokes and jesters. Psst! It's true! This is the best book on JOKES you'll ever read! Knock knock. Who's there? Max ...Show more
You Eat Poison Every Day (It's True!) by Peter MacInnis
Category: Education | Series: It's True!
Packed with facts about both natural and man-made poisons, from foxgloves and hemlock to rat-killer and lead paints, this book also contains many tales of murder, intrigue and accidental death. Pssst! It's true! This is the best book on poisons you'll ever read. Did you realise that you take poison at l ...Show more
Your Bones are Stronger Than Concrete (It's True!) by Diana Lawrenson
Category: Children's Educational | Series: It's True!
This twenty-sixth book in the fantastic It's True! series takes a squiz at skeletons large and small - what bones are for, how they grow and repair themselves, what happens to them when we die.