Charley’S New Home

By Karen Givins and Mark Ruben Abacajan

Charley and his family and friends have been forced out of their habitat by progress-a new housing estate and have to find a new home. This is the story of how they all work together to find a new home and overcome the trials of a new home in the Reserve; they also learn about the environment and what the human race is doing to the planet.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Jun 19, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503506275

Karen Givins

My name is Karen Givins , I am 58 yrs old and live in Dallarnil Queensland. I have a partner Barry, and two children Joshua 38, and Carly 34. I have 7 grandchildren 3 boys and 4 girls aged between 14 and 4. I have worked hard all my life as a carpenters labourer, in the seafood industry and then in laundries in Brisbane. I was born on the Sunshine Coast and I am one of eight children.

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CHARLEY’S

NEW HOME

by

Karen Givins

Copyright © 2015 by Karen Givins. 702924

ISBN:   Softcover   978-1-5035-0626-8

             EBook       978-1-5035-0627-5

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 06/12/2015

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Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter four

Chapter five

Chapter Six

Chapter seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter One

How much further? whined Charley, feeling very tired and weary from his long walk.

We don’t know, dear, his mother Julie answered. She knew he was hot and hungry.

We must find the right type of vegetation for us to live on Charley, explained his father patiently, You know the nice juicy Eucalyptus trees, like the ones we were living in.

Charley sighed. He still couldn’t understand why they had to leave. He didn’t know what bulldozer meant, and he hadn’t seen Bluey the blue-tongued lizard in days; not since