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Jackie French
The powerful new novel from master storyteller Jackie French The soldiers she saved called her the Angel of Waterloo. The husband she loved and lost called her Hen. The patients…
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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. The Very Small Castle is home to Butter O'Bryan, his father, three…
Renowned for her historical fiction titles, Jackie French now tells the story of the brilliant and famous evacuation of Gallipoli. Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and…
The third book in the best-selling Jackie French historical series that places girls centre stage. Ming Qong is convinced that girls have changed history throughout the world. She's faced danger…
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…
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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…
This is the story of women who fought during WW1, but not as nurses or ambulance drivers.
In 1916 sixteen-year-old Jean McLain is working as a Post Office assistant in…
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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…
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…
Barbara, caught up in a demonstration, goes round the corner and arrives in the 1930s in another demonstration. In this time-shift story a homeless girl finds a home and family…
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…
A collection of short stories, both historical and contemporary, based on real people and real events.
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…
This is the story of a wombat’s life, told by Jackie French and illustrated by Bettina Guthridge.
A collection of fantasy stories from the author of Somewhere Around the Corner .
…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…
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…
A bundle of stories about Prudence and her best friend, the Phaery Ethereal - Phredde for short.
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…
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…
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…
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+.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
It’s a new school term and Phredde and her friends in the school footy team are determined to beat the West Wallabies, who are a footy team of vampires. This…
As a puppy, Snarf is fortuitously rescued by a young girl called Hekja when he is badly injured. Their simple but happy lives are changed unrecognisably when their village is…
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…
Someone has left Pru a mansion of her very own! But why is Mr Nahsi the solicitor so keen for her to sell? What are the strange yellow puddles that…
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…
All Martin has to do is walk the boundaries and the farm will be his. It is a bright sunny day when Martin sets out, but suddenly he finds himself…
Captain Cook’s goat had already sailed around the world before it went on its first voyage with Cook, and helped save everyone on board the ship from scurvy. As well…
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 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…