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A Girl Like Me by Penny Matthews
$10.00 AUD
Category: Teenage Fiction
Their lives couldn't be more different, but Emmie can't help liking Bertha Schippan. She's funny and knowing and wild, and she distracts Emmie from the monotony of farm life. But, as Emmie soon discovers, Bertha has secrets. Terrible secrets. This heartbreaking story is based on a real crime that took p ...Show more
A Year on our Farm by Penny Matthews
$15.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Paperbacks | Series: YEAR ON OUR FARM
Every month of the year there are jobs to do on a small Australian farm. Fruit ripens, lambs are born, hay is harvested. 'A Year on our Farm' shows the passing of the seasons through the eyes of the children for whom the farm and all its animals is home. This delightful picture book won the Children's B ...Show more
Crusher Kevin (Aussie Nibbles) by Penny Matthews
$12.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Aussie Nibbles
"Charlie really wants a dog, and his Mum and Dad say he can have one when they move ito their new house. But Crusher is not the kind of dog Charlie wants, or is he?"--Prelim. Suggested level: primary.
1854 Do You Dare? Eureka Boys by Penny Matthews
$14.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Do You Dare?
Do you dare . . . Join a rebellion? Stand up to a bully? Risk your life for a friend? It's an adventure in history. Do You Dare? Henry lives with his father and sister on the Victorian goldfields. Still mourning the loss of his mother and baby brother, Henry helps his father to mine their claim an ...Show more
Maddie's First Day by Penny Matthews; Liz Anelli
$26.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Hardbacks
It is Maddie's first day of school and she has everything ready - her uniform, shoes, socks and hat. But there is one special thing that Maddie can't leave behind - her blanky! Award winners Penny Matthews and Liz Anelli team up to bring us this wonderful picture book about the excitement of going to "b ...Show more
Maddie's First Day by Penny Matthews; Liz Anelli
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Paperbacks
First day of school, new experiences and making friends play centre stage for this book for the pre-school age. It is Maddie's first day of school and she has everything ready - her uniform, shoes, socks and hat. But there is one special thing that Maddie can't leave behind - her blanky! Award winners P ...Show more
Meet Ruby (Our Australian Girl - Ruby #1) by Penny Matthews
$14.95 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl
Meet Ruby and join her adventure in the first of four stories about a happy-go-lucky girl in a time of great change. It's 1930 and Ruby Quinlan lives in a big house in Adelaide with her parents and her fox terrier, Baxter. As she gets ready for her twelfth birthday party, Ruby has never been happier. Bu ...Show more
One Night by Penny Matthews
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Hardbacks
On the first Christmas Eve, so the story goes, the animals were given a very special gift to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Since then, at midnight on Christmas Eve the animals remember. A beautiful retelling of an old Christmas folktale.
Our Australian Girl: Meet Nellie (Book 1) by Penny Matthews
$14.95 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1849 Ser.
It's 1849 . . . and Nellie O'Neill is arriving in South Australia on a ship bringing orphan girls from Irish workhouses. Nellie and her best friend, Mary, have left the famine in Ireland far behind, and are full of hopes and dreams for the future. Nellie longs to learn to read, to be part of a family on ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: Nellie and Secret the Letter (Book 2) by Penny Matthews
$9.95 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1849 Ser.
It's 1849 . . . and Nellie is starting her new life as a kitchen maid in a grand Adelaide house with her best friend, Mary. But Nellie's desire to live out her dreams soon leads to a battle with the spiteful cook Bessie Rudge... Can Nellie keep her temper and avoid being thrown out to beg on the streets ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: Nellie's Greatest Wish (Book 4) by Penny Matthews
$14.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl
Nellie returns to Adelaide, where a shock awaits her. A reunion with someone from her past has the power to fulfil the wishes she made when she first arrived in Australia...A dramatic conclusion to the Nellie books that will have readers weeping and cheering in equal measure.
Our Australian Girl: Nellie's Quest (Book 3) by Penny Matthews
$14.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl
It's 1850 and Nellie's best friend, Mary, is gravely ill. To provide Mary with the care she needs, Nellie must break a promise and go on a quest to find the Thompson family. But will they be able to help? And who will Nellie turn to when her own life is in danger? Follow Nellie on her adventure in the t ...Show more