Charlotte Calder Charlotte Calder i(A5555 works by)
Born: Established: Adelaide, South Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon The 12th Dog Charlotte Calder , Tom Jellett (illustrator), Sydney : Lothian , 2016 9705573 2016 single work picture book

'In the summer holidays, a game of backyard cricket brings the whole neighbourhood together, and no one loves the game more than Arlo the dog. He's the fastest fielder there is, but there's a big problem: he never gives up the ball!

'Forced to watch from the sidelines, Arlo is determined to get back on the team - he just needs to prove that he is a great cricketer after all.

THE 12th DOG captures the joy of backyard cricket and the hilarity of owning a dog.' (Publication summary)
1 4 y separately published work icon The Ghost at the Point Charlotte Calder , Newtown : Walker Books Australia , 2012 Z1874436 2012 single work children's fiction children's historical fiction mystery 'Dorrie wonders if Aunt Gertrude's stories are true. Is there really a ghost boy roaming the cliffs? The thought makes her shudder. But how else can she explain the shadowy figure she glimpsed moving through the stringybarks? And the other strange happenings around the point? Dorrie is determined to discover the truth - even if it means confronting a ghost.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 2 y separately published work icon Stuck! Charlotte Calder , Mark Jackson (illustrator), Newtown : Walker Books Australia , 2009 Z1630301 2009 single work picture book children's 'One warm and windy day, when Charlie and his friends decide to fly a kite it takes off and soars straight into a tree! One by one, Charlie's friends each try to free the kite with their toys - all of which end up stuck in the tree along with the kite. Just when it looks as though everything is stuck forever, the cat loses its footing on a branch and sets off a chain reaction, sending their toys to the ground. But guess who is stuck now? (From the publisher's website.)
2 4 y separately published work icon Paper Alice Charlotte Calder , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2008 Z1529779 2008 single work novel young adult Alice tries to track down her double, Wilda, while dealing with the complications of her first year at university.
1 7 y separately published work icon Surviving Amber Charlotte Calder , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2005 Z1192969 2005 single work novel young adult

'But Amber's totally the opposite to me, I wailed, everything about her! She treats me like dirt, and she thinks she's so cool...

'Heath's island world is turned upside down when sophisticated cousin Amber and her dysfunctional family come to stay. Life on the remote farm is devoid of funky shops, clubs, proper TV reception and emails, and the bored and arrogant Amber soon makes Heath's existence hell–at school as well as at home.

'As tensions mount between the two girls, it seems the only thing they can agree on are the two European backpacker friends that Amber has made–one of whom is the gorgeous Jamal... Or is Amber going to ruin Heath's love life too?

'It's only when a group camping expedition to a remote beach starts to go disastrously wrong that Heath and Amber have to decide whether blood really is thicker than water.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 5 y separately published work icon Cupid Painted Blind Charlotte Calder , Sydney : Pan , 2002 Z984060 2002 single work novel young adult

'"The course of true love never did run smoothly."

'If people have been stuffing up love since Shakespeare's time, what hope does Seph–or sefi_15 when she's online–have with Tom? Look at her parents: they barely speak to each other since Nick moved out, and could her mum really have a 'thing' for their balding (not to mention married) neighbour? Even Seph's best friend Pia–boy magnet–is having problems. The forces of love, like the unbearably hot summer, seem to be beyond anyone's control...

'And now a mysterious grEMLin has invaded Seph's chat room and is about to make her life a whole lot more difficult.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 6 y separately published work icon Settling Storms Charlotte Calder , Port Melbourne : Lothian , 2000 Z509957 2000 single work novel young adult Mel, daughter of big soapy star Davina Childs, has to settle into a new environment in tropical northern Australia. New school, new house new climate, new kids to cringe about her mother to. And her mother is devastated that her character is being written out of the soap, so she's not being much help to her daughter.
1 Death by Drowning Charlotte Calder , 1999 single work short story
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , vol. 11 no. 1 1999; (p. 44-52)
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