Kira Down Under

By: Erin Teagan

Narrated by: Emily Eiden

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?

Wonderful story!

We chose this book for our homeschool as a story about Australia and it did a great job of speaking about life, animals, and experiences unique to Australia in a relatable way for my 8 year old. I love how realistic and wonderful each of the characters are in the story. The story was exciting and relatable without being over the top. I really enjoyed listening to the story as much as my daughter did.

The performance was also wonderful! I love the accents and voices given to characters. It really added to our listening of the story and made me happy that we listened to the audiobook and it wasn't a book I chose to read aloud instead.

I LOVE HOW KIRA VISITS HER FAMILY

I liked how she is going to middle school and I don’t like how she fights with Alexis.

Book includes discussion about lesbian couple.

For those not wanting their young girls introduced to same sex marriage discussions yet, I would not recommend.

Against what God says

In this book Kira’s two aunts are married and that is against the Bible to get married to another woman. Great performance though.