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The Book of Horses and Unicorns by Jackie French
19.99 AUD
Category: 10+ BIGGER KIDS | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 2-3, Age 7-8
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 fantasti ...Show more
The Camel Who Crossed Australia (The Animal Stars #3) by Jackie French
14.99 AUD
Category: 10+ BIGGER KIDS | Series: Animal Stars Ser. | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 2-3, Age 7-8
Transported from his beloved Afghan plains and mountains to Australia, Rajah the camel is forced to join the baggage train for famous 19th century explorers Burke and Wills as they embark on an expedition to cross the continent from south to north for the first time.
The Dog Who Loved A Queen (The Animal Stars #2) by Jackie French
14.99 AUD
Category: 10+ BIGGER KIDS | Series: The Animal Stars
To the world outside her luxurious prison Mary Queen of Scots is either a shameless beauty who killed her husband or the rightful queen of England and Scotland tragically held captive by Elizabeth the First. But to the dog who loved her Mary is simply his mistress and the centre of his life. While Mary ...Show more
The Donkey Who Carried the Wounded (The Animal Stars #4) by Jackie French
14.99 AUD
Category: 10+ BIGGER KIDS | Series: The Animal Stars | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Jack Simpson's training as a stretcher-bearer hasn't prepared him for the horror of the Anzac landing on Gallipoli Peninsula. But when he finds a donkey who has survived being thrown overboard from a ship, the two form a partnership that will become famous. And when the battle is over there is still wor ...Show more
The Ghost by the Billabong (#5 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
19.99 AUD
Category: TEEN FICTION | Series: The 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 seven ...Show more
The Ghost of Howlers Beach (Butter O'Bryan Mysteries #1) by Jackie French
16.99 AUD
Category: 10+ BIGGER KIDS | Series: Butter O'Bryan Mysteries
Butter O'Bryan has been told there are ghosts on Howlers Beach, but are there? Howlers Beach, 1932 Butter O'Bryan lives in a Very Small Castle with his father and three aunts - Aunt Elephant, Aunt Cake and Aunt Peculiar. These aren't their real names, of course, just as Butter's father isn't really call ...Show more
The Girl from Snowy River (#2 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
19.99 AUD
Category: TEEN FICTION | Series: The Matilda Saga
In the tradition of THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER comes a gripping and courageous sequel to A WALTZ FOR MATILDA Ages:10-14 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, particul ...Show more
The Great Gallipoli Escape by Jackie French
19.99 AUD
Category: 10+ BIGGER KIDS
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 Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915 they know that that there is mo ...Show more
The Great Gallipoli Escape by Jackie French
17.99 AUD
Category: 10+ BIGGER KIDS
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 Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915 they know that that there is mor ...Show more
The Hairy Nosed Wombats Find a New Home by Jackie French
14.99 AUD
Category: PICTURE BOOKS | Series: WILRO
THE HAIRY-NOSED WOMBATS FIND A NEW HOME is a charmingly humorous picture book for young children about the endangered hairy nosed wombat and the search for a new home for them. Ages: 4-8 Once upon a time, deep underground, there was a colony of wonderfully whiskery wombats who all had hairy noses. They ...Show more
The Horse Who Bit a Bushranger by Jackie French
14.99 AUD
Category: 10+ BIGGER KIDS | Series: Animal Stars Ser. | Reading Level: 9-12
The deeds and disputed stories of Jackie French's own ancestors inspire another novel - a novel of proud and gutsy horses, trailblazing farmers and their resilient wives, and desperate men forced to break the law to survive.
The Last Dingo Summer (#8 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
29.99 AUD
Category: TEEN FICTION | Series: The Matilda Saga
A killer lurks behind the kindness of the Gibber's Creek community. Under the burnt timber of the church, the police have found the body of Merv Ignatious, the man who so viciously attacked Jed Kelly when she was fifteen, and tried to kill her and her unborn child in last year's bushfire. And also in th ...Show more