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Spider Lies
by Jen Banyard with illustrations by Tracey Gibbs
Price $14.95 
- Illustrator
- Tracey Gibbs
- About the Book
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Connor’s little white lies have spawned a monster! It’s big, it’s hairy and it’s lurking outside his bedroom window.
Connor is home alone with his pet spider. Tricking Mum and Dad was easy and now he’s got nobody to tell him to wash the dishes, nobody to make him go to school and nobody to turn to when his very existence is threatened by the biggest arachnid the world has ever seen.
Can Connor save the planet? With just a bungling knitwit from NASA, the weirdest girl in school and a doddery old lady and her wheezing terrier to help him, Connor thinks the world is doomed!
‘I really enjoyed this story. It’s so well written, suspenseful and splattered with classroom humour. But beware, if you are arachnophobic it may give you nightmares!’
Merle Morcom, Age guide 8+, Good Reading - Category
- Fiction for Middle Readers
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Fremantle Press
- ISBN13
- 9781921361517
- HB/PB
- Paperback
- Format
- B Format (198 x 128mm)
- Pages
- 176
- Teaching Notes
- SPIDER LIES TEACHING NOTES WEB.pdf
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Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things