Jackie French
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Matilda saga volume 5
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English
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The fifth title in the sweeping Matilda Saga
Hippies wear beads, demonstrators march against the Vietnam War, and the world waits to see the first human steps on the moon's surface.
But at Gibbers Creek, Jed Kelly sees ghosts, from the past and future, at the Drinkwater billabong where long ago the swaggie leaped to his defiant death.
But is seventeen-year-old Jed a con artist or a survivor? When she turns up at Drinkwater Station claiming to...
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Matilda saga volume 3
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English
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A page-turning, heart-warming family saga set in the Snowy Mountains during the Depression in the 1930s. Ages:11 years+
Blue Laurence has escaped the prison of her aunt's mansion to join the Magnifico Family Circus, a travelling troupe that brings glamour and laughter to country towns gripped by the Depression. Blue hides her crippled legs and scars behind the sparkle of a mermaid's costume; but she's not the only member of the circus hiding a dark...
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Matilda saga volume 6
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English
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It's 1972, and across Australia the catchcry is 'It's time'.
Time for old folk, time for young folk, time for a new, idealistic Labor government.
In Gibber's Creek, it's time for Jed Kelly to choose between past love, Nicholas, the local Labor member, and Sam from the Halfway to Eternity commune. And, for Scarlett O'Hara, it's time to dream that one day she becomes a doctor, despite being in a wheelchair. It's also time for matriarch Matilda Thompson...
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Matilda saga volume 4
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English
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In war-torn Malaya, Nancy dreams of Australia - and a young man called Michael.
The year is 1942 and the world is at war. Nancy Clancy left school at fourteen to spend a year droving, just like her grandfather Clancy of the Overflow. Now sixteen, Nancy's family has sent her to Malaya to bring home her sister-in-law Moira and baby nephew Gavin. Yet despite the threat of Japanese invasion, Moira resists, wanting to stay near her husband Ben.
But...
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Matilda saga volume 8
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English
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A body has been found in the burned-out wreckage of the church at Gibber's Creek, with older skeletons lying beneath it. The corpse is identified as that of Ignatius Mervyn, the man who attempted to kill Jed Kelly and her unborn child.
Newcomer Fish Johnstone is drawn into the murder investigation, convinced that the local police are on the wrong track with their enquiries. But, as she digs beneath the warm and welcoming surface of the Gibber's Creek...
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Matilda saga volume 7
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English
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In 1978, as the hot wind howls and the grass dries, all who live at Gibber's Creek know their land can burn. But when, you love your land, you fight for it.
For Jed Kelly, an even more menacing danger looms, a man from her past determined to destroy her. Finding herself alone, trapped and desperate to save her unborn child, Jed's only choice is to flee, into the flames.
Heartbreaking and powerful, Facing the Flame celebrates the triumph of courage...
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Matilda saga volume 9
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English
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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 finally persuaded her great aunt Nancy to tell the story of her grandparents. The tale that unfolds is one of Australia's greatest romances - that of Clancy of the Overflow, who gave up everything for Rose, the woman he adored, and yet still gained all he'd lost and more.
But...
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Matilda saga volume 2
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English
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In the tradition of The Man from Snowy River comes a gripping and courageous sequel to A Waltz for Matilda
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 the heart of Australia, particularly for orphaned sixteen-year-old Flinty McAlpine, who lost a brother when the Snowy River men marched away to war.
Why has the man Flinty loves returned from...
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Wombat books (Jackie French) volume 1
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Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2003
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 x 29 cm
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English
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In his diary, a wombat describes his life of eating, sleeping, and getting to know some new human neighbors
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Wombat books (Jackie French) volume 2
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Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 x 30 cm
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English
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Through a week of diary entries, a wombat describes his life of sleeping, playing, and helping his mother look for a bigger hole in which to make their home
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From Australia's Children's Laureate comes a delightful collection of stories about horses and unicorns. Take a journey through the ages and around the world, from ancient Greece, to the time of Genghis Khan to Arthurian England and then to outback Australia in the 1950s.
Each story weaves the fantastic into the commonplace or focuses on the special relationship that exists between humans and horses. Some stories are based on true stories, some on...
12) Flesh and Blood
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The thrilling finale to the Outlands trilogy. The City has called on Danielle Forest, Virtual Engineer, to find the source of a new influenza epidemic that is infecting the City and threatening the Outlands. The disease partially kills, and those affected become zombies intent on killing all around them. If the epidemic is not controlled, the deaths are likely to be greater than anything seen, since the Black Death. Danielle and her boyfriend, Neil,...
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An exciting new tale of a brumby, a boy and a bushranger in the Animal Stars series.
A story of survival, second chances...and a dance with danger.
Young Billy Marks is a pickpocket, transported to the penal colony of New South Wales. He reckons he'll become a bushranger, but that's before he's had a chance to see the bush up close. And when, he buys the big white brumby stallion, covered with scars but refusing to bend to any man's will, he knows...
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A collection of four more favorites from the Wacky Families series. So you think your family is wacky? Wait till you read these stories...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 they knew his gran was a gorilla? Is Drackie's Auntie Chook really a vampire chicken? And, what will Fuzz do when his Pa makes him travel in the Arctic...
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Do you like to fly to the moons of Saturn or visit talking wombats Do you like to daydream Do you eat chocolate Have you ever wondered how your favourite authors create the fantastic worlds their characters inhabit And have you ever wanted to write yourself Jackie French, one of Australia's most popular and renowned children's authors, helps you to unleash the full power of your creative imagination. Everything is covered from how not to write the...
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The hole was moving! The walls were falling down...there was a rope under his arms. There was a face above. An anxious face, yelling something down to him, something he didn't understand. A strange face, with something wrong about the eyes. Tanned skin, unshaven, black hair a bit too long. Joey knows there is a Japanese soldier hiding in the hills. It was a Japanese man, a soldier, who hauled him out of the mineshaft, who lit the fire to bring the...
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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 she treated in secret called her Auntie Love.
She was Henrietta Bartlett, a surgeon's daughter, a survivor of the Napoleonic Wars. But now the battlefield is just a blood-soaked memory, and Hen dreams of peace, a home, and a society that allows women to practise medicine.
On...
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Where history comes alive through the eyes of special animals. To outsiders, Mary is a queen and a threat, but to her devoted dog Folly, she is his world
To the world outside her luxurious prison, Mary Queen of Scots was either a shameless beauty who killed her husband, or the rightful Queen of England and Scotland, tragically held captive by Elizabeth I. But, to the dog who loved her, Mary was simply his mistress, and the center of his world.
While...
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Beautiful new editions of popular titles that will entice a whole new generation of readers to the exploits of Phredde and her friends. Phredde and a Frog Named Bruce and other stories to eat with a watermelon 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? Ages 7-12
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Take a closer look at Australia's best-known marsupials. Why does Australia have animals that are so different from others anywhere else in the world? Why do 'roos and wallabies have such big tummies? Who were the kangaroos with fangs that lived 10 million years ago? What's the best way to become invisible (to kangaroos, at any rate)? Which wallaby is a 'living fossil' - the same as the wallabies that grazed 10 million years ago? Why do joeys eat...