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2 9 y separately published work icon A Very Unusual Pursuit Catherine Jinks , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2013 Z1905113 2013 single work children's fiction children's fantasy historical fiction 'Monsters have been infesting London's dark places for centuries, eating every child who gets too close. That's why ten-year-old Birdie McAdam works for Alfred Bunce, the bogler. With her beautiful voice and dainty looks, Birdie is the bait that draws bogles from their lairs so that Alfred can kill them.

'One life-changing day, Alfred and Birdie are approached by two very different women. Sarah Pickles runs a local gang of pickpockets, three of whom have disappeared. Edith Eames is an educated lady who's studying the mythical beasts of English folklore. Both of them threaten the only life Birdie's ever known.

'But Birdie soon realises she needs Miss Eames's help to save her master, defeat Sarah Pickles, and vanquish an altogether nastier villain.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 1 y separately published work icon Yoo-Hoo, Ladybird! Yoo-Hoo, Ladybug Mem Fox , Laura Ljungkvist (illustrator), Melbourne : Penguin , 2013 6079701 2013 single work picture book children's 'A charming hide-and-seek book from Mem Fox, illustrated by Laura Ljungkvist. Follow the adventures of the ladybird and find her in various scenarios in a fun finding game. Suitable for younger children, this book will fascinate and delight with vivid colour and adorable illustrations.' (Publisher's blurb)
3 2 y separately published work icon The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group Catherine Jinks , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2010 Z1735344 2010 single work novel young adult

'I still hadn't fully absorbed the terrible possibility that I might actually be a werewolf. A werewolf. I kept stumbling over that word; it made no sense to me. How could I be a werewolf? Werewolves didn't exist.

'When Tobias Richard Vandevelde wakes up in hospital with no memory of the night before, his horrified mother tells him that he was found unconscious. At Featherdale Wildlife Park. In a dingo pen.

'He assumes that his two rambunctious best friends are somehow responsible, until he discovers that they're just as freaked out as he is. Then the mysterious Reuben turns up, claiming that Toby has a rare and dangerous "condition". Next thing he knows, Toby finds himself involved with a strange bunch of sickly insomniacs who seem convinced that he needs their help.

'It's not until he's kidnapped and imprisoned that he starts to believe them - and to understand what being a paranormal monster really means.' (From the publisher's website.)

3 13 y separately published work icon The Reformed Vampire Support Group Catherine Jinks , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009 Z1587159 2009 single work novel young adult

'"If being a vampire were easy, there wouldn't have to be a Reformed Vampire Support Group."

'Nina became a vampire in 1973, when she was fifteen, and she hasn't aged a day since then. But she hasn't had any fun either, because her life is so sickly and boring.

'It becomes even worse when one of the other vampires in her therapy group is staked by a mysterious slayer. Threatened with extinction, she and her fellow vampires decide to hunt down the culprit. Trouble is, they soon find themselves up against some gun-toting werewolf traffickers who'll stop at nothing.

'Can a bunch of feeble couch potatoes win a fight like this? Or is there more to your average vampire than meets the eye?' (Publisher's blurb)

5 10 y separately published work icon The Seance John Harwood , Boston : Harcourt , 2008 Z1484341 2008 single work novel mystery
1 y separately published work icon Natives and Exotics Jane Alison , Orlando : Harcourt , 2005 Z1575706 2005 single work novel

'It's a difficult thing to crave, land, especially when your body is small. And a dangerous thing, too, when you have no business being there, when it's not even where you're from.

'Alice, an unrooted child of diplomats in South America; Violet, a newlywed settling in the Australian scrub; George, a gardener fleeing the violent Clearances.

'Three generations wander a world scarred by colonialism and disturbing scientific revelations, from the unearthing of the first dinosaur bones to the discovery that the continents drift, in a hypnotic novel about our passionate, uneasy affair with nature, in which we restlessly search for home.' (Author's abstract)

7 3 y separately published work icon Mutt Dog! Stephen Michael King , Stephen Michael King (illustrator), Sydney : Scholastic Press Scholastic Press , 2004 Z1158049 2004 single work picture book children's

'Mutt dog! The scruffy dog is brave and fast and smart... but he's all alone. No-one feeds him. No-one wants him. No-one loves him. Then one day his luck changes, and he at last finds a family—and a cozy, loving place to belong.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 10 y separately published work icon Hunwick's Egg Mem Fox , Pamela Lofts (illustrator), Orlando : Harcourt , 2004 Z1177485 2004 single work picture book children's

'When a mysterious egg appears outside Hunwick's burrow, no one is quite certain what to think. And when it doesn't hatch right away, everyone is even more bewildered. Everyone except Hunwich, that is. Hunwick understands that the egg is his friend, and he is the only one who knows its secret.' (author's website)

1 2 y separately published work icon Some Great Thing Colin McAdam , Orlando : Harcourt , 2004 Z1118274 2004 single work novel Jerry McGuinty is a simple, self-made builder who claims he can plaster a wall that will change your life. Simon Struthers is a disaffected businessman who proves the old adage about money and happiness. Together they face the new Ottawa of the seventies: brash, bright, and ready for the taking. With their different careers and successes, these two strangers seek to carve out their own happiness-Jerry with his new wife, Simon with his endless affairs and intrigues. But love can be suffocated by the drive to succeed, and individuals crushed by greed and progress. Only when both men realize what they have to lose will their lives finally intersect, and the story spiral to its astonishing conclusion.
4 16 y separately published work icon The Ghost Writer John Harwood , London : Jonathan Cape , 2004 Z1105256 2004 single work novel mystery

'In this tantalizing tale of Victorian ghost stories and family secrets, timid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two things: his elusive pen pal Alice and a story he found hidden in his mother's drawer years ago. Written by his great-grandmother Viola, it hints at his mother's role in a sinister crime. As he discovers more of Viola's chilling tales, he realizes that they might hold the key to finding Alice and unveiling his family's mystery-or will they bring him the untimely death they seem to foretell?

'Harwood's astonishing, assured debut shows us just how dangerous family skeletons-and stories-can be.' (Publication summary)

2 11 y separately published work icon The Crimson Petal and the White Michel Faber , New York (City) : Harcourt , 2002 Z1016999 2002 single work novel historical fiction (taught in 1 units)
3 5 y separately published work icon Whoever You Are Mem Fox , Leslie Staub (illustrator), San Diego : Harcourt Brace , 1997 Z834247 1997 single work picture book children's Despite the differences between people around the world, there are similarities that unite such as pain, joy and love.
19 10 y separately published work icon Under the Skin Michel Faber , New York (City) : Harcourt , 2000 Z1016775 2000 single work novel mystery science fiction (taught in 2 units)

'Isserley is a female driver who picks up hitchhikers with big muscles. She, herself, is tiny, peering child-like over the steering wheel. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she hears passengers reveal who might miss them if they should disappear.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Some Rain Must Fall Michel Faber , Edinburgh : Canongate , 1998 Z1016588 1998 selected work short story
3 3 y separately published work icon Time for Bed Mem Fox , Jane Dyer (illustrator), San Diego : Harcourt Brace , 1993 Z833962 1993 single work picture book children's 'A gentle litany of good nights, ostensibly from various animals to their young ("It's time for bed, little mouse, little mouse,/Darkness is falling all over the house") but mostly more apposite to their human counterparts ("It's time for bed, little calf, little calf,/What happened today that made you laugh?' (Source: Kirkus Reviews).
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