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Jackie French
Ming Qong is convinced that girls have changed the world throughout history.
So when Ming is thrust back in time to Belgium during WWI, only to be rescued from a…
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Pamela the cow loves pears so much that no one else ever has a chance to eat any.
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Possum and Mopoke, with the old Collector Desert Wind as their guide, leave the Valley again to brave the world outside, where it’s harsh, dry and so hot you can’t…
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Possum, Mopoke and Desert Wind have found a wild boy - one with a pet lion - and brought him back to the Valley. But who is he? How can…
Possum and Mopoke, with Desert Wind as their guide, have left the Valley and braved the world outside, where its harsh, dry and so hot you can’t go out during…
Sea levels have risen, the winds are wild, and the sun is so hot that you can’t go out during the day. So Possum and Mopoke live like wombats, sleeping…
With Desert Wind as their guide, Possum and Mopoke have once again left the Valley to brave the world outside, where it’s harsh, dry and so hot you can’t go…
Nowadays, in conventional gardening and farming, weed ‘control’ means herbicides: chemicals have replaced good management for fertility and for pest, disease and weed control. We hate weeds. ‘Weed’ is the…
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Why buy your garden, when you can grow it at no cost? Why limit your creativity to your nursery’s range, when there’s much more to choose from all around you…
There’s no need to water your garden! Or weed, prune, spray or dig it! In her decades of watching the bush and the animals around her, and of experimenting with…
Darren and his schoolmates keep seeing a giant wombat! Bosco appears at all sorts of times and places and although no one realises it immediately, he is helping them all…
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In the Summerland, life is perfect. Although Iddy cannot remember her past, she feels safe and secure with the people of this country town. But Iddy gradually finds out there…
…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…
Danielle has always been linked to others, but when she is banished from the city, she no longer has fast access to information, food and friends. Soon after her move…
The author shows how children can easily and quickly set up a garden and be able to eat things from it with little financial outlay and not too much work.
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+.
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…
Prudence is invited by her father’s distant werewolf cousins to their gloomy castle to hunt for some missing ‘treasure’. Phredde and Bruce accompany Prudence, who is well aware that if…
A school excursion to the Big Koala goes horribly wrong when Phredde, Pru and Bruce - and their vampire teacher Mrs Olsen, and Miss Richards, librarian and martial arts expert…
A collection of fantasy stories from the author of Somewhere Around the Corner .
It is 1942, Joey and his mum have left the city and the danger of bomb attacks. But Joey discovers a Japanese soldier hiding in the hills outside the country…
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…
In Greycliffs, where Anya lives, the people work hard in the slab- rock quarry for most of their life. A rockfall that Anya foresaw in her dreams is blamed on…
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…
The reality of slavery, the poverty of the Southern Army and chaos of war is a shock to Charlie and his escape is not the glorious return of the conquering…
The story of the iconic Burke and Wills expedition, seen through the eyes of a camel called Bell Sing. Transported from his beloved Afghan plains and mountains to Australia, Bell…
This is the story of a small unassuming donkey. It’s also the story of Gallipoli, of Jack Simpson, and New Zealander stretcher-bearer Richard Henderson, who literally took up the reins…
Nikko lives in a small farming village in Greece near the stronghold of Mycenae in 1200 BC. When his sister Thetis is born, Nikko rescues her from the hillside where…
An updated version of Jackie French’s journal of a year in the life of the Araluen Valley in the beautiful Southern Tablelands of NSW. It’s a combination of many stories…
Refuge centres around a 14-year-old Afghan boy who spent much of his life in Pakistani refugee camps before making the voyage from Indonesia to Australia. As the boat crashes against…
Following on from I Am Juliet, this is the second title in a proposed new series for young people that focuses on the reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s classic and enduring plays…
A searing story of passion, betrayal, battles and love, this is Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ stripped of superstition, and its power and beauty refined into fewer words where good balances the evil…
‘The story is equal parts Downton Abbey and wartime action, with enough romance and intrigue to make it 100% not-put-down-able.’
– Australian Women’s Weekly on Miss Lily’s Lovely Ladies
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From bestselling author Jackie French comes a book about the secrets we carry, those that we unearth - and those that are too dangerous to tell.
The once impoverished medical…
This is a combined edition of two titles: Ride the wild wind, originally published 2002; and The book of unicorns, first published 1997.
A new title in the series that explores Australia’s early Colonial secret history Orphaned Barney Bean now has a flourishing farm in the New South Wales colony and everything he…
‘Rain Stones’ and the other stories in this collection reveal that the country is a magical place, that there is an extra dimension to be found by those whose minds…
The world is at war, and women are working, often behind the scenes, in areas from nursing to espionage. And despite their many successes, these are the women the men…
‘GRIPPING, EMOTIONAL AND MOVING’ – New Idea
There have been fires before, but not like this.
In 1978, as the hot wind howls and the grass dries, all who live…
A fresh reinterpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Australian Children’s Laureate Jackie French.
As the King of England wavers between duty and love, Sophie knows that she must choose duty.
The year is 1936 and the new King Edward VIII wishes to marry…
The final and thrilling conclusion to the popular and bestselling Miss Lily series
A mysterious telegram that says, ‘Lily needs you’ arrives just before a plane from war-ravaged England lands…
It’s 1932, the height of the Depression, and Butter O'Bryan and his friends have another mystery to solve.
From Australia’s best-loved storyteller comes the final book in the bestselling Matilda Saga
This is a love song to our nation, told in a single sweeping story
Jed Kelly has…
Three women from very different backgrounds, bound by friendship, separated by destinyIt was impossible, but in full view of the church, the Governor and wedding guests …
The bride…
The year is 1919. Thirty years have passed since the man from Snowy River made his famous ride. But World War I still casts its shadow across a valley in…
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…
THE DIARY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, GENT is part comedy, part love story, the threads of Shakespeare’s life drawn from his plays. Could the world’s greatest writer truly put down his…
