Hans-Georg Noack (International) assertion Hans-Georg Noack i(A52042 works by)
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3 1 y separately published work icon Colour in the Creek Margaret Paice , Sydney : Collins , 1976 Z830983 1976 single work children's fiction children's
2 1 y separately published work icon Wildfire Mavis Thorpe Clark , New South Wales : Hodder and Stoughton Australia Brockhampton Press , 1973 Z831754 1973 single work children's fiction children's
7 17 y separately published work icon Josh Ivan Southall , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1971 Z116555 1971 single work novel young adult 'Fourteen year old Josh Plowman goes to country Victoria to visit his father's Aunt Clara, the matriarch of the Plowman family. Aunt Clara lives a life very much suited to the past and Josh regards her house as a museum. Aunt Clara is keen for Josh to make friends with the local children but Josh meets with a hostile reception. There are undercurrents at work which Josh cannot ever understand.' (Publication summary))
5 17 y separately published work icon Bread and Honey Ivan Southall , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1970 Z170325 1970 single work novel young adult A boy in his early teens finds out about life, and the strength of his own feelings and emotions - as well as those of his enemies - on one very wet adventurous Anzac Day holiday.
4 4 y separately published work icon Chinaman's Reef is Ours Ivan Southall , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1970 Z792212 1970 single work novel young adult
4 2 y separately published work icon When Jays Fly to Barbmo Margaret Balderson , London : Oxford University Press , 1968 Z900184 1968 single work novel young adult

The story of Ingeborg, a young Norwegian girl, who lives on a farm on the remote island of Draugoy, in the north. The Germans are beginning their invasion of Norway.
3 y separately published work icon Spark of Opal Mavis Thorpe Clark , Melbourne : Lansdowne , 1968 Z835624 1968 single work children's fiction children's
3 3 y separately published work icon Finn's Folly Ivan Southall , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1969 Z792179 1969 single work children's fiction children's

An accident on a foggy Australian country road brings together the lives of five children and five adults.

The Kirkus Review in 1969 offered the following synopsis:

Four children alone in an isolated lakeside cabin on a cold, foggy night, the oldest, Max, an edgy fifteen, the youngest, David, infantile at nine; the sound of a crash, of repeated thuds from the hairpin road on which their parents should be returning . . . the situation is so portentous, its demands so exacting and conflicting, subsequent occurrences so compelling that one wishes Mr. Southall had foregone a proclivity for simultaneous plot strands and intersecting paths, past and present. Along with the Shaw children waiting tensely in the cabin, there's Alison McPhee and her father approaching warily in his truck, their relationship as explosive as the cyanide it carries. The impact when the Shaw car overtakes and overturns the McPhee truck is more than a matter of strong parents cut down tragically, of a weak father cut away, perhaps fortunately; more, too, than the lightning tenderness between Alison and Max. For it seems–though there's little reason to anticipate it, less to accept it–that Alison is also the abandoned daughter of a television personality–a selfish, shallow type–who has a cabin near-by, and that her father was on his way there before the accident.

Source: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ivan-southall-5/finns-folly/ (Sighted: 28/5/2014)
3 1 y separately published work icon Riverboat Family Elizabeth Wilton , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1967 Z849291 1967 single work children's fiction children's historical fiction A Mannum family resurrects a river boat from the bottom of the River Murray and uses her as a trader in the time when Queen Victoria was on the throne.
4 7 y separately published work icon The Min-Min Mavis Thorpe Clark , Melbourne : Lansdowne , 1966 Z949462 1966 single work novel young adult

'Across nearly two thousand miles of flat, sandy desert country runs a railway line, linking east and west Australia. Scattered along it are small groups of houses. Here the fettlers live, isolated from towns and other people, maintaining the line in the blazing heat.

At night, out of the blackness the min-min appears, an elusive and mystic light dancing on the horizon, beckoning and retreating. Aborigines tell of the wonder and excitement this small swaying light arouses. To Sylvie, a young girl living with her family at the siding, the gleam in the dark is symbolic of her life and future.

Her brother Reg, a "young rough", is frightened to stay at the siding after some of the mischief he causes. So he and Sylvie set off across the endless desert, carrying insufficient water and some bread and jam, walking under the scorching sun, in dust and wind, and facing icy nights.'

Source: 1966 publisher's blurb.
19 6 y separately published work icon Ash Road Ivan Southall , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1965 Z116360 1965 single work children's fiction children's (taught in 1 units)

'It's hot, dry and sweaty on Ash Road, where Graham, Harry and Wallace are getting their first taste of independence, camping, just the three of them. When they accidentally light a bushfire no one would have guessed how far it would go. All along Ash Road fathers go off to fight the fires and mothers help in the first aid centres. The children of Prescott are left alone, presumed safe, until it's the fire itself that reaches them. These children are forced to face a major crisis with only each other and the two old men left in their care.

'The best selling Ash Road is an action-packed adventure story, so evocative of rural Australia you can taste the Eucalyptus.' (Publication summary : Text Classics)
3 y separately published work icon A Ridiculous Idea Elizabeth Wilton , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1967 Z819969 1967 single work children's fiction children's The adventures of a Quaker family who sail from England to the 'Province' of South Australia in the 1830s to begin a new life.
11 5 y separately published work icon To the Wild Sky Ivan Southall , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1967 Z43205 1967 single work children's fiction children's

'No one had talked about fuel; what was the use of talking, anyway? But they all knew that engines which run on fuel have to run out of fuel sometime, and that the Egret just couldn’t keep on going for ever. They seemed to have been sitting in this plane, imprisoned, for days, waiting to die. Gerald just flew on and on as though he wanted to fly away to another world, almost as though he didn’t want to go down, almost as though he didn’t know how to go down.

When the Egret’s pilot dies suddenly mid-flight six teenagers, the only passengers on board, face a terrifying situation. Gerald has had some flying lessons, but he has never flown alone, and he has never landed a plane. Lost and afraid, they fly on as the fuel gauge drops and night closes in. Will they find a clear landing place? Could they land in the sea? If they do somehow land safely how will they find their way back to civilisation?'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Text Publishing edition).
2 1 y separately published work icon High and Haunted Island Nan Chauncy , London : Oxford University Press , 1964 Z836730 1964 single work children's fiction children's adventure Two schoolgirls are stranded on the rocky shore of Port Davey, off the Tasmanian coast, in wartime.
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