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Shipwreck, Sailors & 60,000 Years (Fair Dinkum Histories #1) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction
The Indigenous people of Australia have lived here for tens of thousands of years. They survived the ice age and ancient global warming. They saw oceans sink and oceans rise. They watched the mega-beasts disappear and dingoes arrive. Theirs is the oldest civilization in the world. Then along came the Du ...Show more
Soldier on the Hill by Jackie French
$16.95 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction
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 town where they now live. What can he do?
The Angel of Waterloo by Jackie French
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
The Beach They Called Gallipoli by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction
An extraordinary exploration of Gallipoli created by the incredible Jackie French and Bruce Whatley Many books have been written about the battles of Gallipoli; the men who went to war and what they faced, the letters, and the tears of those left behind. But this is a book about Gallipoli, the place, an ...Show more
The Beach They Called Gallipoli (HB) by Jackie French; Bruce Whatley
$24.99 AUD
$29.99 (16% off)
Category: Children's Non Fiction
An extraordinary exploration of Gallipoli created by the incredible Jackie French and Bruce Whatley Many books have been written about the battles of Gallipoli; the men who went to war and what they faced, the letters, and the tears of those left behind. But this is a book about Gallipoli, the place, an ...Show more
The Book of Horses and Unicorns by Jackie French
$19.98 AUD
Category: Young Readers
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
$12.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Animal Stars Ser.
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 Day I Was History by Jackie French
$11.95 AUD
$15.95 (25% off)
Category: Beginner Readers | Series: Making Tracks S.
Fires up in the mountains, they said on the news. But they were a long way from Canberra. And anyhow, cities dont burn. Sams Saturday begins like any other but he is soon battling wind, flames and blackened skies as he desperately tries to find his home.
The Dog Who Loved A Queen (The Animal Stars #2) by Jackie French
$12.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | 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
$12.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: The Animal Stars
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: Teenage | 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: Young Readers | 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