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They Came On Viking Ships by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | 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: Young Adult Fiction
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: Fiction
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
To Love a Sunburnt Country by Jackie French; Edwina Wren (Read by)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Young Adult CD | Series: The\Matilda Saga Ser.
As the Japanese invasion rips war-torn Malaya, Nancy dreams of Australia ... and a young man called Michael.Nancy has driven cattle a thousand miles into Queensland and laughed at the disapproval of colonial 'mems'. But even 'Nancy of the Overflow' cannot stop the Japanese army surging towards Australia ...Show more
To Love a Sunburnt Country (#4 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: The Matilda Saga
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, Nancys family has sent her to Malaya to bring home her si ...Show more
To Love a Sunburnt Country (#4 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The year is 1942 and the world is at war. Nancy Clancy is 16 and left school to spend a year droving, just like her grandfather Clancy of the Overflow was famed for. Now Nancy's family has sent her to Malaya to bring home her sister-in-law Moira and baby Gavin. Moira is British and married to Nancy's br ...Show more
To the Moon and Back by Jackie French; Bryan Sullivan
$16.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
'... FASCINATING INSIGHTS INTO THE PART THAT THE AUSTRALIANS PLAYED IN GETTING THE ASTRONAUTS TO THE MOON AND BACK.'-- Bestselling author, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki Who were the Honeysuckle Creek mob? And how did they assist the first moon landing? When man took the first step on the moon it was a bunch of A ...Show more
Tom Appleby, Convict Boy by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Reading Level: From 10 To 99
Tom Appleby, eight year old chimney sweep is convicted of stealing and sentenced to deportation to Botany Bay. This book tells of a colony that, despite its natural abundance, cannot offer what the colonists want. While the people's health is better than ever, their morale is low as they wait for news f ...Show more
Tom Appleby - Convict Boy by Jackie French
$24.95 AUD
Category: Junior MP3
At the tender age of eight, chimney sweep Tom Appleby is convicted of stealing and sentenced to deportation to Botany Bay. As one of the members of the First Fleet, he arrives in a country that seemingly has little to offer or little that the English are used to, anyway.Luckily, not long after tom's arr ...Show more
Too Many Pears! by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Pamela the cow loves pears, and will do just about anything to get them. But will anyone else ever get to eat a pear again? Certainly not until Pamela has had her fill . . . and chooses something else to eat!
Tornado (HB) by Jackie French
$26.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire, Cyclone, Drought, Pandemic, Earthquake and Plague. I was born of twisting air, touching ground and spinning there. Do not laugh, just feed me thunder, I will soar and roar and plunder ...
Wombat Goes to School by Jackie French
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
She sleeps. She eats. She scratches - and finds a hole. When Mothball discovers a new hole, it unexpectedly leads her to the local school. The children learn that wombats love carrots and grass, while Mothball learns that lunch boxes contain very few carrots, that sports sheds can be a good place to hav ...Show more