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Lizard's tale / Weng Wai Chan.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Branch	Status
JF CHAN	Junior Fiction	Bankstown .	. Available .
JF CHAN	Junior Fiction	Campsie .	. Available .
JF CHAN	Junior Fiction	Riverwood .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781925603910 (paperback)
Name	Chan, Weng Wai author.
Title	Lizard's tale / Weng Wai Chan.
Published	Melbourne, Australia : Text Publishing, 2019.
Published	©2019
Description	312 pages ; 20 cm.
Summary	Its Singapore in 1940, war is just around the corner but twelve-year-old Lizard doesnt know that. He lives in Chinatown above a tailors shop, surviving on his wits and hustling for odd jobs. When he steals a small teak box containing a Japanese code book from a Raffles Hotel suite, he finds himself in a dangerous world of wartime espionage. Lizard doesnt know who to trust. How is the mysterious book inside the box connected to his friend Lili, a girl full of secrets and fighting skills? Can he trust her, or will she betray him in the end? Lizards Tale is an action-packed adventure for middle-grade readers, set in a British colony in Asia as the Japanese invasion of Singapore looms.
Target audience note	10-12 years.
Reading Program Note	Premier's Reading Challenge 5-6.
Subjects	Children's stories
	Theft -- Juvenile fiction
	Premier's Reading Challenge 5-6
	Singapore -- Juvenile fiction
Genre	Spy fiction
	Historical fiction
	Action and adventure fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Action and adventure fiction . Children's stories . Historical fiction . Premier's Reading Challenge 5-6 . Singapore -- Juvenile fiction . Spy fiction . Theft -- Juvenile fiction . See Also: Children's literature . Fairy tales . Fiction . Storytelling . Authors: Chan, Weng Wai .