The School for Talking Pets is Kelli’s debut novel for children, and will be published in September 2021. When Australian Rusty Mulligan and his pet blue-tongued lizard, Bongo, win a week at Miss Alice Einstein’s School for Talking Pets, the shy 12-year-old is thrilled. His best friend will learn to talk! But once on the secret island with the four other competition winners and their pets, things don’t go to plan. Rusty and his friends must save the school from two secret agents who have come to shut it down – by any means necessary.

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