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The Night They Stormed Eureka by Jackie French
17.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Reading Level: 10-13
A story about dreams, gold, rebellion ... and an unlikely friendship across time 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 'the best little cook shop on the diggings'. the Puddlehams ...Show more
The Road to Gundagai (#3 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
19.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: The Matilda Saga
The third title in the Matilda saga, which began with A WALTZ FOR MATILDA and followed with THE GIRL FROM SNOWY RIVER A true cross-over, that becomes a terrific holiday read for our literary adult market A page-turning, heart-warming family saga set in the Snowy Mountains during the Depression in the 19 ...Show more
The Schoolmaster's Daughter by Jackie French
17.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
Drawing on her own family history, this is a story from Jackie French about education in Colonial Australia - and how women once had to fight for their right to it. January 1901Sharks circle a stranded ship as a young girl and her family stagger from the waves ...Rescued by a Pacific Islander boy named ...Show more
The Sea Captain's Wife by Jackie French
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From bestselling author Jackie French comes a compelling story of murder, mystery, and mutiny on the high seas - and a love so intense it can overcome two different cultures. You never know what the sea will give you ... or what it will take back.When Mair McCrae follows her island tradition and hunts f ...Show more
The Secret of the Black Bushranger (Secret History #3) by Jackie French
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: The\Secret History Ser.
The third in a series that explores our secret history By the 1790s orphaned Barney Bean finally has his own farm in the early NSW colony. All his dreams are coming true But now we are to learn of Barney's biggest secret yet: how he helped Australia's first bushranger escape. Was Black Caesar a wronge ...Show more
The Secret of the Youngest Rebel (The Secret Histories, Book 5) by Jackie French
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: The\Secret History Ser.
'HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR ALL READERS' - ReadPlus on Barney and the Secret of the Whales The whisper in the darkness is: rebellion! (Or: death or liberty!) Frog is an orphan, a pickpocket, starving on the streets of Parramatta in 1804. But when the tall, commanding Irish rebel Mr Cunningham talks of freed ...Show more
The Tomorrow Book by Jackie French
24.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Reading Level: 4-8
A timely picture book about a young prince who is determined to rule over a country where the future is filled with environmental hope - and practical solutions, such as common usage of solar and wind power. Lively, fun and positive, this book serves to give young people information about their world a ...Show more
The Turtle and the Flood by Jackie French
24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A companion title to the best-selling The Fire Wombat, this is the story of Myrtle, a small turtle who, by heading uphill, tells the other animals that a flood is coming. Myrtle the turtle knows everything about the waterhole where she lives in the creek. She can also sense the giant flood that is comi ...Show more
The Wilderness Garden by Jackie French
24.95 AUD
Category: Gardening Landscape Plants
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 hundreds of new growing strategies, Jackie has learnt to grow things by letting the plants - and nature - do most of the work for her. And, wit ...Show more
They Came On Viking Ships by Jackie French
15.95 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Reading Level: From 10 To 14
This is the story of a Scottish wolfhound called Snarf and his owner, Hekja, whose simple but happy lives change unrecognisably when their village is raided by Vikings. As a puppy, Snarf is fortuitously rescued by a young girl called Hekja when he is badly injured. Both are then captured by raiding Viki ...Show more
Third Witch by Jackie French
16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
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 and there is a happy ending - for some. Following on from OPHELIA, QUEEN OF DENMARK and I AM JULIET, this is th ...Show more
This Is Home: Essential Australian Poems For Children (HB) by Jackie French (Editor)
34.99 AUD
Category: Classics
In This Is Home, much-loved author Jackie French has gathered a poem for every child and every mood. What do you feel like doing today? Sit beside a bush campfire with Oodgeroo Noonuccal, watch people going by with Henry Lawson, float away with Alison Lester, learn to read with Andy Griffiths or be brav ...Show more