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The Dog Who Loved A Queen (The Animal Stars #2) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels | 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
$16.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels | 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 Great Gallipoli Escape by Jackie French
$17.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels
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 Great Gallipoli Escape by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Young Adult Fiction (Ages 13+)
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 Horse Who Bit a Bushranger by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels | 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 Schoolmaster's Daughter by Jackie French
$17.99 AUD
Category: New Young Adult Fiction (Ages 13+)
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
They Came On Viking Ships by Jackie French
$16.98 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels | 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
When the War Is Over by Jackie French
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Picture Books | Reading Level: 6
FROM ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S MOST-LOVED AUTHORS COMES A BOOK ABOUT HOMECOMINGS, AND THE ENDURING POWER OF LOVE. Now the war is over And they say the world is free, Though somewhere guns are snarling, You've come back to me. War may never truly end, but there can be homecomings. From two of Australia's most h ...Show more