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Jackie French
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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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…
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…
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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 .
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…
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…
…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…
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…
A bundle of stories about Prudence and her best friend, the Phaery Ethereal - Phredde for short.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
How can Buster solve the disappearance of his werewolf parents when Uncle Wal keeps bugging him to act like a human all the time? What would TJ’s friends say if…
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…