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	My Mum the Pirate by Jackie French Whoever said having a pirate for a mum was fun? Cecil's mum wears long black boots and an even longer sword and she makes her enemies walk the plank. Putrid Percival serves sea monster soup for dinner when Cecil would rather eat pizza. And Filthy Frederick stinks - but hey he's good at maths and nobody's perfect! Cecil gets seasick and all he wants is a normal life. With parent-teacher night looming Cecil is worried. Will the crazy crew of the good ship Mermaid and his pirate mum ruin his street cred? But when flood waters strike and Bandicoot Flats Central School is in danger who will save the students and teachers from the perils of the rising waters? The wacky talents of Jackie French and Stephen Michael King will delight younger readers as way-out and wild adventures unfold in the Wacky Family series. Ages 7+ Online Price: $11.95
	Pete the Sheep by Jackie French The award-winning team behind Diary of a Wombat have joined forces again to create another highly amusing picture book. Sean is a shearer and instead of a sheepdog to help him he's got a sheep sheep - Pete. After being rejected by the other shearers and their dogs Sean and Pete set up a sheep salon in town. Sheep from everywhere arrive to have their wool shorn in the latest style and even the shearers' dogs end up arriving for a cut in order to look gorgeous. Jackie and Bruce have created the perfect combination of words and illustrations in this irreverent look at the world of sheep shearing. Ages 4-9 Online Price: $14.99
	Emily and the Big Bad Bunyip by Jackie French It's Christmas Day in Shaggy Gully. Everyone is happy except for the Bunyip. Can Emily Emu and her friends possibly make the Bunyip smile this Christmas? A delightful new picture book from the team who created the bestselling Diary of a Wombat, Pete the Sheep and Josephine Wants to Dance. Ages 3+. Online Price: $14.99
	The Tomorrow Book by Jackie French A timely picture book about a young prince who is determined to rule over a country where the future is filled with environmental hope - and practical solutions such as common usage of solar and wind power. Lively fun and positive this book serves to give young people information about their world and shows them that a lot of environmental solutions are simple and relatively easy to put in place. Produced on recycled paper to reflect the message within this is a beautiful book. Ages 4-8. Online Price: $14.99
	Pharaoh by Jackie French The people call Prince Narmer 'the Golden One' - a boy with the brightest future ahead of him. Handsome and talented he is destined to be King of Thinis the greatest town in Egypt and for Narmer the centre of the world. Then his whole life changes overnight. A devastating accident forces him to give up his right to the throne and sends him journeying across the ancient Middle East with the mysterious Trader the crippled Nitho and a tamed wildcat called Bast. And as he travels through the desert and visits the great cities of Punt and Sumer he learns that Thinis is actually a very small place indeed. But can he ever truly forget his homeland? When he decides to pay one last visit to Thinis he will discover what it really means to be a leader and will find his destiny fulfilled beyond his wildest expectations. Set in a time before the pyramids and based on real historical events Pharaoh will sweep readers along on a fascinating journey through a part of the world we hear so much about today. Ages 10-14 Online Price: $15.99
	A Rose for the Anzac Boys by Jackie French The 'War to end all Wars' as seen through the eyes of three young women It is 1915. War is being fought on a horrific scale in the trenches of France but it might as well be a world away from sixteen-year-old New Zealander Midge Macpherson at school in England learning to be a young lady. But the war is coming closer: Midge's brothers are in the army and her twin Tim is listed as 'missing' in the devastating defeat of the Anzac forces at Gallipoli . Desperate to do their bit - and avoid the boredom of school and the restrictions of Society - Midge and her friends Ethel and Anne start a canteen in France caring for the endless flow of wounded soldiers returning from the front. Midge recruited by the over-stretched ambulance service is thrust into carnage and scenes of courage she could never have imagined. And when the war is over all three girls - and their Anzac boys as well - discover that even going 'home' can be both strange and wonderful. Exhaustively researched but written with the lightest of touches this is Jackie French at her very best. Ages 12+ Online Price: $15.99
	Oracle by Jackie French Nikko lives in a small farming village in Greece near the stronghold of Mycenae in 1200 BC. When his sister Thetis is born, Nikko rescues her from the hillside where she has been abandoned, setting off an unforeseen chain of events. Thetis survives the trauma of her birth but is rendered mute until the age of five, when the gift of speech is given to her; but she can only tell the truth, which soon proves to be a double-edged sword. When the villagers try to double-cross the king's tribute gatherers, Nikko and Thetis are sent to the Mycenean court to be trained as entertainers for the king. There they meet Euridice, a horse dancer from the North, and forge an enduring friendship. When Thetis's prophecy of disaster comes true, and Mycenae is hit by an earthquake, she disappears. Nikko and Euridice flee in search of her. Nikko eventually finds Thetis in Delphi, where she is now installed as Oracle, set to fulfil her destiny. But danger still lurks in the shape of the new Mycaenean king, who wants her back at court to foretell his future... Online Price: $16.99
	Nanberry by Jackie French It's 1789, and as the new colony in Sydney Cove is established, Surgeon John White defies convention and adopts Nanberry, an Aboriginal boy, to raise as his son. Nanberry is clever and uses his unique gifts as an interpreter to bridge the two worlds he lives in. With his white brother, Andrew, he witnesses the struggles of the colonists to keep their precarious grip on a hostile wilderness. And yet he is haunted by the memories of the Cadigal warriors who will one day come to claim him as one of their own. This true story follows the brothers as they make their way in the world - one as a sailor, serving in the Royal Navy, the other a hero of the Battle of Waterloo. No less incredible is the enduring love between the gentleman surgeon and the convict girl, saved from the death penalty, to become a great lady in her own right. Online Price: $16.99
	Grim Crims and Convicts: 1788-1820 by Jackie French Online Price: $16.99
	Flood by Jackie French This is a story that shows how strong and devastating flood water can be to homes and livelihoods. It is inspired by the 2011 Queensland floods but it could be about any of the disasters that strike our land, and the events that turn everyday Australians into heroes. Flood depicts water mercilessly ripping through Queensland towns and then receding, leaving destruction and devastation in its wake. Told from the perspective of a cattle dog who is separated from his family, Flood helps children to understand the affects of a traumatic natural disaster without being too confronting, while the story of the little tugboat that pushes a boardwalk out to sea, staving off further disaster, gives smaller children a hero they can relate to. Flood is a beautiful and timely expression of the strength of the Australian spirit during times of adversity. Online Price: $16.99
	Rocket Your Child into Reading by Jackie French The book every parent and teacher should own. Written in Jackie French's inimitable style one of the aims of this book is to help parents and teachers identify children's reading difficulties and then suggest ways to deal with them. The book is full of useful and practical solutions rather than long dense paragraphs dripping with educational theory and difficult words that are hard to pronounce. Jackie draws on her own experience of being dyslexic to show that there are many fun and rewarding ways to improve your child's reading abilities and stimulate a love of books. Online Price: $19.95
	Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French A delightful and entertaining peek into the life of one very busy wombat! Monday Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate. Scratched. Night: Ate. A typical day. Don't be fooled. This wombat leads a very busy and demanding life. She wrestles unknown creatures runs her own digging business and most difficult of all - trains her humans. She teaches them when she would like carrots when she would like oats and when she would like both at the same time. But these humans are slow learners. Find out how one wombat - between scratching sleeping and eating - manages to fit the difficult job of training humans into her busy schedule. Ages 3-7 Online Price: $24.95
	Baby Wombat's Week by Jackie French & Bruce Whatley The star of the bestseller Diary of a Wombat is back - with a new mouth to feed! Cuter, stroppier and even more determined than her mother - meet Mothball's baby. Like any growing family, this baby wombat and her mum are finding it hard to fit into their home. When setting out to dig a new, bigger hole with room for them both, Shaggy Gully's newest resident gets some help from a friend, causes more mayhem than Mothball ever did, and sorts things out in hilarious style. Online Price: $24.99
	Queen Victoria's Underpants by Jackie French & Bruce Whatley Meet Lizzy, whose family are in the clothing industry. Very few people probably know that Queen Victoria made the wearing of underpants popular. At the beginning of her reign very few women wore them. But Queen Victoria made tartans, perambulators and chloroform fashionable. By the time she died just about every woman in Britain wore underpants like hers. Online Price: $24.99
	A Year in the Valley by Jackie French A Year in the Valley is the lovely, new and updated version of Jackie French's journal of a year in the life of the Araluen Valley in the beautiful Southern Tablelands of NSW. It's a combination of many stories - foxes in the autumn and the first of the asparagus, dashes to the school bus in the mornings and sleepy lizard nibbling Christmas pudding leftovers on hot rocks, the slow drying of the creek...It's a book about food, too, with fabulous recipes - duck with peach and couscous, ginger omelette (an aphrodisiac), potatoes and artichokes in olive oil, and skin lotions that leave your fingers smelling of flowers. Online Price: $27.99
	The Best of Jackie French's Garden by Jackie French Best of Jackie French's Garden is a 'best of' which starts in the soil with how to plant and grow and then goes inside the house with practical and delightful ideas for cooking and using your home-grown produce. Jackie French is a popular presenter on Burke's Backyard. Her depth of botanical knowledge passion for organics and self-sufficiency combined with her sense of fun make her a popular and trusted source of gardening lore. Online Price: $29.99

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	Passion by Lauren Kate The third book in the Number 1 best-selling Fallen series serves up what readers are dying to know. . . Passion not only gives answers and insight into who Luce and Daniel were before we first met them, but also seamlessly moves ahead the main plot, setting up an incredibly thrilling and climactic introduction to the fourth and final chapter in the Fallen series - coming in 2012. Online Price: $24.95
	Fateful by Claudia Gray The RMS Titanic is the most luxurious ship in the world, but all Tess Davies wants to do is escape the overbearing family she works for. Traveling as a maid for the Lisles, Tess is trapped amid painful memories and twisted family secrets. Once their ship reaches its destination, Tess plans to strike out on her own. Her single-minded focus shatters when she meets Alec, a handsome and mysterious upper class passenger who captivates her instantly. But Alec has secrets of his own. As she uncovers what he has been concealing, Tess quickly becomes entangled in the mystery surrounding Alec′s fate. Soon Tess will learn that the danger they face is no ordinary enemy: that werewolves exist, and are stalking him - and now her, too. Her growing love for Alec will put Tess in mortal peril, and fate will do the same before their journey on the Titanic is over. Online Price: $24.99
People's Republic by Robert Muchamore Twelve-year-old Ryan is CHERUB's newest recruit. He's got his first mission: infiltrating the billion-dollar Aramov criminal empire. But he's got got no idea that this routine job will lead him into an explosive adventure involving drug smugglers, illegal immigrants and human trafficking, or that his first mission will turn into one of the biggest in CHERUB's history. Online Price: $29.99

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