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Escape to the River Sea by Emma Carroll
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
Beautiful and full of adventure, Escape to the River Sea is Emma Carroll's compelling novel inspired by Eva Ibbotson's bestselling, classic masterpiece, Journey to the River Sea.'Unputdownable storytelling. I loved it.' - Hilary McKay, Costa Award-winning author of The Skylark's WarIn 1946, Rosa Sweetma ...Show more
Frost Hollow Hall by Emma Carroll
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
The gates to Frost Hollow Hall loomed before us. They were great tall things, the ironwork all twisted leaves and queer-looking flowers. And they were very definitely shut. Tilly's heart sinks. Will's at the door of their cottage, daring her to come ice-skating up at Frost Hollow Hall. No one goes near ...Show more
Letters from the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
We weren't supposed to be going to the pictures that night. We weren't even meant to be outside, not in a blackout, and definitely not when German bombs had been falling on London all month like pennies from a jar. February, 1941. After months of bombing raids in London, twelve-year-old Olive Bradshaw a ...Show more
Secrets of a Sun King by Emma Carroll
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
London, 1922. A discovery from ancient Egypt . . . A cursed package . . . The untold story of a young pharaoh . . . When Lilian Kaye finds a parcel on her grandad's doorstep, she is shocked to see who sent it: a famous Egyptologist, found dead that very morning, according to every newspaper in England! ...Show more
Somerset Tsunami by Emma Carroll
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
A sinking boat.A girl in disguise.A disappearing sea. When Fortune Sharpe carves a boat from a tree with her beloved brother, Gem, she's only having a bit of fun. But now is not the time for a girl to be drawing attention to herself. She is sent away to find work dressed as a boy. Luckily a rich manor ...Show more
Strange Star by Emma Carroll
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
They were coming tonight to tell ghost stories. 'A tale to freeze the blood,' was the only rule. Switzerland, 1816. On a stormy summer night, Lord Byron and his guests are gathered round the fire. Felix, their serving boy, can't wait to hear their creepy tales. Yet real life is about to take a chilling ...Show more
The Girl Who Walked On Air by Emma Carroll
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
Louie, who was abandoned at Chipchase's Travelling Circus as a baby, dreams of becoming a 'Showstopper', but Mr Chipchase keeps her hidden, tucked away in the ticket booth. No Death-Defying Stunts for her. But Louie has been secretly practising her act; the tightrope and dreams of being the Girl Who Wal ...Show more
The Little Match Girl Strikes Back by Emma Carroll
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
It only takes one strike: A powerful feminist reworking of the Hans Christian Andersen classic, from bestselling and award-winning creators Emma Carroll and Lauren Child. Bridie works hard to feed her family, selling matches on the streets of Victorian London. After an incident leaves her with only thre ...Show more
The Tale of Truthwater Lake by Emma Carroll
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
The future has a lot to learn from the past in this time-travelling adventure that explores the before and after of global warming. On one side of the underwater street is the remains of a house... It's beautiful here, and eerie, a lost kingdom, a ghost village... It's the near-future and Britain is hav ...Show more
The Week at World's End by Emma Carroll
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
1962, London during the Cuban Missile Crisis What would you do if there was a real possibility that the world might end? Ray, aware of his parents' building worry, decides to take matters into his own hands. He builds a shelter in the woods behind his house in the hope that he never has to use it. Only ...Show more
When We Were Warriors by Emma Carroll
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
A body washed up on the beach... Evacuation to an old house with forbidden rooms and dark secrets... An animal rescue service... Set in World War Two, Emma Carroll explores the resilience, resourcefulness and inventiveness of children when their lives fall to pieces. Introducing some compelling new cha ...Show more
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