Australia And Oceania category: 113 books

Australien - für die englischen Mädchen Lucy und Anne bedeutet es im 19. Jahrhundert den Traum von einem neuen Leben. Als Anne schon kurz nach ihrer Ankunft in Perth stirbt, ist Lucy ganz alleine. Doch dann lernt sie einen Farmer und seinen Sohn kennen und gerät in ein Abenteuer zwischen Viehbaronen, Aborigines und der ganz großen Liebe.

Für den fünfzehnjährigen Meo verlief das Leben bisher recht gemächlich. Damit ist nun Schluss, denn seine Eltern wollen mit ihm eine Rundreise durch Australien unternehmen. Die Reise soll Meo für das Land begeistern, in das seine Eltern bald mit ihm ziehen wollen. Zum Glück hat er seine pummelige...

Neuseeländischer Jugendbuchklassiker von 1928, Fortsetzung zu "Wir sechs aus Neuseeland". Die sechs Malcolmkinder aus Auckland kehren für verlängerte Weihnachtsferien auf die Schaffarm ihrer Onkels zurück. Dabei erleben sie kleine und große Abenteuer und die Freuden des Lebens in einer...

Neuseeländischer Jugendbuchklassiker von 1917. Die 12-jährige Ngaire und ihre fünf Geschwister leben in Auckland auf Neuseeland. Als jedoch ihre Mutter erkrankt, müssen die Eltern für unbestimmte Zeit nach England verreisen. Die Kinder bleiben bei ihren Onkeln auf der Schaffarm Kamahi. Zunächst...

When Annie’s dad promises her a beach sports car, she imagines a bright red hotrod with racing stripes. All her school friends will be so jealous! But when her gift turns out to be Dad’s battered old bomb car instead, Anne realizes it will take a lot of effort to turn it into the automobile of...

Unearth the secrets of the mysterious giant stone statues on this tiny remote Pacific island. Easter Island, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean thousands of miles from anywhere, has intrigued visitors since Europeans first arrived in the 1700s. How did people first come to live there? How did...

In his school holidays, this boy tried hard to be helpful but each time he got things muddled. By the end of the week, he thought he would never get anything right and decided to stay in his room. He might have stayed there all day if a razzelum had not suddenly appeared. It was time for action! The razzelum sets out with the boy to see if he really is The Boy Who Got Nothing Right.

They're cute, they're furry, they live in a pouch—they're baby koalas! Did you know that a baby koala cannot see or hear when it is born? Or that a newborn joey is about the size of a jelly bean? Uncover more fascinating facts about baby koalas, from what their habitat is like and what they eat to what their scientific name is in this bright, colorful book.

It's Round 6 and basketball is the next sport in the action-packed Legends series. But the competition takes a back seat when Sandhurst's sporting reputation is put on the line. The odds are against them. The stakes are high. Just how far will someone go to bring the team down? It's thrills and spills as the players hit the court. Who will come out on top?

Welcome to the fun discoveries of my friend White! White shares 18 beautiful real life photos taken by the author in exotic places around world. This fun family orientated book is perfect for introducing children to the wonders of the color white.White Went Around the World is the first book...

Kangaroos Hop helps children identify favourite Australian animals in the Australian landscape. The kangaroos hop, the butterflies fly, the echidnas shuffle across the land and down to the water's edge where a sleepy crocodile lies.Shhhh! The lively illustrations and cumulative text help readers identify animals as well as verbs.

Zoey has waited years until she was old enough to race junior sedans. Now she’s in her first race… and it’s not going so well. Will Colin and Mark’s teasing stop Zoey from chasing her dreams? Or will she take Emily’s advice and go for it?

Nathan has never felt like he fits into his adopted family or his opal-mining community in the South Australian desert. At fifteen, his extreme dyslexia means he is looking down the barrel of unemployment. Then he finds an abandoned mineshaft and discovers something much more incredible than opal...

The best thing about living in the Kimberley is fossicking around in the bush. Twelve-year-old Binnu sees himself as one of the community's most 'deadly' hunters, and with his 'ging' in his pocket he's prepared for anything. When, unthinkingly, he kills a black cockatoo he brings all kinds of trouble...