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Jackie French
Based on eyewitness accounts, this fifth title in The Secret Histories series uncovers the secrets that the colonial government hid for over 200 years.
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Jackie French,Bruce Whatley
An Ice Age meets Diary of a Wombat story
The year is 1788, and in the newly created colony at Sydney Cove is struggling for survival. Seen through the eyes of the colony’s only surgeon and Nanberry, the Aboriginal…
The rain stopped, but the wall of water surged into the river.Hour by hour the river rose. In some places water onlynibbled at the banks, but in others it burst…
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Deals with chickens. This title features many mouth-watering chicken-and-egg recipes. It includes sections on poultry keeping and management that are illustrated with almost 100 full-colour photographs.
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Aims to help parents and teachers identify children’s reading difficulties and then suggest ways to deal with them. This book contains practical solutions, showing there are many ways to improve…
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Tom Appleby, eight year old chimney sweep is convicted of stealing and sentenced to deportation to Botany Bay. This book tells of a colony that, despite its natural abundance, cannot…
It’s 1854, and the Ballarat goldfields are a place of dreams and rebellion as Sam, a homeless teenager, is called back to the past to join the Puddlehams, who run…
Bruce Whatley,Jackie French
Sean is a shearer and, instead of a sheepdog to help him, he’s got a sheep - Pete. After being rejected by the other shearers and their dogs, Sean and…
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Prince Narmer, first in line of succession, meets an oracle who changes his life. Ousted from the line by a disfiguring struggle with a crocodile, Narmer travels, learning much about…
It is 1915. War is being fought on an horrific scale in the trenches in France, but it might as well be a world away from sixteen-year-old Midge MacPherson, who…
Luke lives in modern-day Australia with his mother and stepfather, Sam. Lulach lives in 9th century Scotland with his mother and stepfather, Macbeth. Luke dreams about Lulach and Macbeth and…
Who invented cheese? Or bread and margarine? Where did lettuce and tomato plants originally come from? The plants we eat nowadays come from all over the world and the ways…
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A collection of short stories, both historical and contemporary, based on real people and real events.
From the pen of Australia’s most respected and loved children’s writers comes a collection of stories about horses, and even stories from the horse’s mouth. These special stories will appeal…
This is the sequel to Walking the Boundaries . Martin is called back to Ted’s farm and when he walks the boundaries he is confronted by a terrible problem. He…
Covers manners for various situations, such as kissing, dobbing, introductions and eating. This book also includes etiquette procedures for dealing with vampires, aliens, friends, zombies and more, delivered in a…
The City has called on Danielle Forest, Virtual Engineer, to find the source of a new flu epidemic that is infecting the City and threatening the Outlands. The disease partially…
Cecil’s mum wears long black boots, an even longer sword, and makes her enemies walk the plank. Putrid Percival serves sea monster soup for dinner when Cecil would rather eat…
There’s a grey-flesh zombie librarian tending her blood-starved books in the school library, and a 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummy roaming the corridors. Can Phredde and Pru escape? This book is for…
When your teacher’s a vampire, your brother’s a werewolf, and a frog named Bruce refuses to try to help to save Sleeping Beauty from the Prince, what else can happen…
Phredde, Pru and Bruce are back and this time they are in ancient Egypt. It seems Fluffy, Queen of the Nile, has sent a time tunnel to seek out a…
Meet Phredde, the coolest phaery in the universe. Phredde is tiny, ferocious and Pru’s best friend. And with Pru’s brother turning into a werewolf, Pru needs all the magic help…
…if any of you travel the universe in your maths class … if any of you can create a world so vivid that you can forget someone as boring as…
A collection of fantasy stories from the author of Somewhere Around the Corner .
An all-time favourite now in an edition so durable that even Mothball the wombat would have trouble destroying it!
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This is an entertaining peek into the life of one very busy wombat, aimed at children between the ages of three and seven. Find out how one wombat - between…
A sequel to In the Blood , the author faces a pack of genetically engineered wolves, a trio of water sprites with a passion for muscular tentacles, and three bodies…
Mike’s neighbour is Lance Loosley, a boy everyone calls Loser . Loser tells Mike that Tenterfield – the old property nearby – is being used as a laboratory. One day…
Another lighthearted bundle of stories about Prudence and her best friend, The Phaery Ethereal - Predde for short. Phredde, Prue and families have had lots of adventures in Stories to…
the plague is ravaging Europe. A young girl, lost and alone in her village after her family dies finds hope when Lady Dance comes by … Ages 10+ the plague…
There are hundreds and thousands of Missing Persons. This is the story of such a person and the effect on those left behind - their search for Sarah and their…
Harry doesn’t really want to leave the farm to go to High School. And if he does go, will he want to come back to the farm? And then he…
Three children in country Australia meet at the bus stop every morning and tell each other stories. This one is about Hitler’s Daughter and the life that she leads in…
A thought-provoking and controversial story that examines religious persecution and refugees, this book contains two parallel stories that eventually come together. It is suitable for ages 12+.
