Playing Beatie Bow

Playing Beatie Bow
Author: Ruth Park
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0670076864

'Now then,' thought Abigail, 'something very weird has happened to me. I'm in the last century. I don't know why, and that doesn't matter. I've got to get back.' Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving that it cannot be left in the past. Rediscover the magic of our country's most memorable children's books in the Penguin Australia Children's Classics series of stories too precious to leave behind.

My Sister Sif

My Sister Sif
Author: Ruth Park
Publisher:
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2009
Genre: Australian fiction
ISBN: 9780702237010

Erika Magnus is a 14-year-old stirrer with complete confidence that she alone knows best. So, when her homesick sister Sif longs to return home to the island of Rongo, Erika successfully plots to get her there, and runs away to join her shortly after. Arriving on the island she finds the locals frightened by the changes happening to their world, and the cracks beginning to form in their once-perfect environment. However, it isn't only Erika's home that needs her attention, Sif has caught the eye of Henry Jacka, a young American shell-collector, and Erika decides that won't do at all. But Henry has already guessed the secret of Sif's and Erika's family. He can hardly believe his eyes. He can hardly believe his own scientific conclusion.

A Fence Around The Cuckoo

A Fence Around The Cuckoo
Author: Ruth Park
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 327
Release: 1993-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0857969978

Written as vividly as any of her novels, Ruth Park's autobiography is a moving, passionate, often funny account of the people and places which influenced her early years. Her isolated childhood in the rainforests of New Zealand fed her fertile imagination; her convent education encouraged her love of words and writing, and the bitter years of the Depression exposed her to poverty and injustice.

When the Wind Changed

When the Wind Changed
Author: Ruth Park
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1990
Genre: Australian fiction
ISBN: 9780207167614

Josh is a little boy who likes to make faces. He practises his scary faces every day. If only Josh had listened when his father told him what would happen when the wind changed Ages 4+

King of Shadows

King of Shadows
Author: Susan Cooper
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 5
Release: 2012-03-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0689845782

Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream in a new replica of the famous Globe theater. Shortly after arriving in England, Nat goes to bed ill and awakens transported back in time four hundred years -- to another London, and another production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Amid the bustle and excitement of an Elizabethan theatrical production, Nat finds the warm, nurturing father figure missing from his life -- in none other than William Shakespeare himself. Does Nat have to remain trapped in the past forever, or give up the friendship he's so longed for in his own time?

Crow Country

Crow Country
Author: Kate Constable
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1742691706

From the author of the Chanters of Tremaris series comes a contemporary time travel fantasy, grounded in the landscape of Australia Beginning and ending, always the same, always now. The game, the story, the riddle, hiding and seeking. Crow comes from this place; this place comes from Crow. And Crow has work for you. Sadie isn't thrilled when her mother drags her from the city to live in the country town of Boort. But soon she starts making connections--with the country, with the past, with two boys, Lachie and Walter, and, most surprisingly, with the ever-present crows. When Sadie is tumbled ba.

The Harp in the South

The Harp in the South
Author: Ruth Park
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1971
Genre: Fiction in English, 1900- Texts
ISBN: 9780855946081