Kira Down Under, Erin Teagan
Kira Down Under, Erin Teagan
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Kira Down Under

Author: Erin Teagan

Narrator: Emily Eiden

Unabridged: 2 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/07/2022


Synopsis

In this first book of her series, Kira Bailey is living her dream: Cuddling koalas and bottle-feeding baby kangaroos.

Kira and her mom are spending the summer at a wildlife sanctuary in Australia helping her aunt Mamie, a veterinarian, care for the animals. When Kira falls in love with an orphaned koala joey, her joy is complete—until a health emergency pulls Aunt Mamie away. Suddenly Kira can’t seem to do anything right. She’s put the wombats and her beloved koala joey in danger, and now her new friend Alexis won’t talk to her. Can Kira find a way to catch a roving predator—along with a few wayward wombats—and earn back everyone’s trust?

About The Author

Erin Teagan loves sharing the most interesting parts of science with kids. She has a background in science and uses many of her experiences from the lab in her books. Erin lives in Virginia with her family, a hound dog named Beaker, and a bunny. To write Kira’s story, Erin went to Australia, where she worked as a ranger for a day at a wildlife park. While she was there, news in Australia buzzed with talk of climate change. People worried about bushfires and the threat to plants and animals. Unfortunately, a few weeks later, bushfires began burning millions of acres. Several of the places Erin visited were destroyed by bushfires in November and December 2019.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maya on January 20, 2022

read this for the meme and also bc she has the same name as my sister-cute story will be reading the next one too......more

Goodreads review by Olivia on January 29, 2021

Having read pretty much all of the Girl of the Year books I have to say while this isn't my favorite one I did really enjoy it. I thought Kira as a character was really interesting and was fun to read the headspace of. I do think the nod to the coronavirus was a bit weird and I would have preferred......more

Goodreads review by Reader on December 04, 2024

Its amazing!! 1 it looks so pretty and it gave me morals I'm not a Kid anymore but i love it!!......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on September 03, 2021

Oh this was SO CUTE! I'm so very behind on American Girl books and I most definitely need to fix that.......more

Goodreads review by Courtney on May 11, 2021

There are two things that are keeping me from making this a 5 star. The biggest one is the lesbian relationship, that does not belong in a children's book. I also did not like the references to cover, the appeared to be added in last minute. They should have made more, or completely left it out. Other......more