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Amanda Commander: The Blues-day Tuesday
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Amanda and her two best friends, Lucia and Mai, are the Dolphin Squad. They live by the beach, hang out in HQ and solve all sorts of problems. Amanda Commander is nearly nine and there is nothing she loves more than hanging out with her two...
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When Amanda returns to school after having a sick day, she finds fitting back into the friendship group tricky. Amanda decides, with the help of the Dolphin Squad, to go out of their way and include anyone. But when Eve is sick and misses school, how will Amanda ensure Eve doesn’t have a blues-day back at school just like she did?
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Amanda and her two best friends, Lucia and Mai, are the Dolphin Squad. They live by the beach, hang out in HQ and solve all sorts of problems.
Amanda Commander is nearly nine and there is nothing she loves more than hanging out with her two best friends at HQ, making all sorts of plans and solving all kinds of problems. Amanda Commander is kind, loyal and a natural-born leader. But even school can be a battlefield sometimes, so Amanda and her Squad need a plan just to survive.
When Amanda returns to school after having a sick day, she finds fitting back into the friendship group trickier than she imagined. Amanda makes a plan, with the help of the Dolphin Squad, to go out of their way to include everyone. But when Eve is sick and has a few days off school, how will Amanda ensure Eve doesn’t have a blues-day back at school just like she did?
It’s OPERATION WELCOME BACK!
Amanda tries everything to make Eve feel included, even when it means being left out herself.
Amanda Commander: The Blues-day Tuesday is the fourth book in a Junior Fiction series promoting kindness, loyalty and friendship.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781761111266
Publisher: Wombat Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 March 2024
Country: Australia
Imprint: Wombat Books
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Heidi Cooper Smith
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 80
About the Author
Coral Vass is an award-winning Australian children's author. She has always loved telling stories and has been writing books for over ten years. Coral is an ambassador for Reading Out of Poverty and is passionate about giving all children an equal opportunity to read. Heidi Cooper Smith is an author–illustrator. She illustrates digitally using watercolour brushes and writes quirky, whimsical stories.
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