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'Olive lives with her beloved grandparents in a small, isolated community. Her grandparents have scrimped and saved to send her to boarding school where she can meet kids her own age. It's not exactly what Olive expected, in fact, Mrs Groves' Boarding School for Naughty Boys, Talking Animals and Circus Performers isn't what anybody really expected!
'Faced with disappointing her grandparents, Olive, who is not a boy nor a talking animal, pretends to be an acrobat so that she can stay on. Now she has a month to learn how to leap, somersault and overcome her fear of heights.
'With exploding lamingtons, a vicious school bully, talking animals and new faces, can Olive leap over these obstacles, become an actual acrobat and find a place to fit in?' (Publication summary)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also large print.
Works about this Work
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Review : Olive of Groves
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 31 no. 1 2016; (p. 37)
— Review of Olive of Groves 2015 single work children's fiction -
Review : Olive of Groves
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time , February 2016;
— Review of Olive of Groves 2015 single work children's fiction -
Review : Olive of Groves
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , July vol. 95 no. 1 2015; (p. 15)
— Review of Olive of Groves 2015 single work children's fiction
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Review : Olive of Groves
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time , February 2016;
— Review of Olive of Groves 2015 single work children's fiction -
Review : Olive of Groves
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , July vol. 95 no. 1 2015; (p. 15)
— Review of Olive of Groves 2015 single work children's fiction -
Review : Olive of Groves
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 31 no. 1 2016; (p. 37)
— Review of Olive of Groves 2015 single work children's fiction
Awards
- 2016 shortlisted Indie Awards — Children's
- 2016 shortlisted APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book designed by Hazel Lam.
- 2016 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards — Eight to 10 Years