Jacqueline Harvey Jacqueline Harvey i(A80915 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

From 2001 to 2012, Jacqueline Harvey worked at Abbotsleigh School, Sydney. She retired as deputy head of the Junior School in late 2012 in order to pursue writing on a full-time basis.

Harvey began publishing for children in the early 2000s, with the Code Name series: Code Name Mr Right, Code Name Unwanted, and Code Name Rescue. Her 2005 picture book The Sound of the Sea was an honour book in the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Awards in 2006.

In 2010, she began publishing the highly successful Alice-Miranda series of chapter books: they regularly appear on the honour lists and shortlists of children's choice awards, and have been shortlisted for such awards as the Australian Book Industry Awards and the Davitt Awards. In 2012, while still publishing the Alice-Miranda series, she began the Clementine Rose series.

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y separately published work icon Mimi Is Missing Melbourne : Puffin , 2022 24423840 2022 single work children's fiction children's

'From the bestselling author of Alice-Miranda comes this humorous and heartfelt series about eight-year-old Willa and her best four-legged friend, Woof!

'Willa’s in trouble. Mimi – the famous racing pigeon owned by Frank, her neighbour and best old-aged friend – is missing. And Willa is pretty sure she’s the one who left the cage door open . . .

'She’ll need her most creative ideas (along with the help of Tae, her best same-age friend, and her trusty sidekick Woof, the albino Irish Wolfhound) to track Mimi down before Frank finds out!

'Can Willa find Mimi before it’s too late?'  (Publication summary)

2023 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards Five to 8 Years
y separately published work icon Chasing Danger Melbourne : Penguin , 2022 23814384 2022 single work children's fiction children's

'What do you do when ghosts rise from the past? When they reveal long-buried secrets that could turn your world upside down?

'When an earthquake causes a breach at a super-secret Pharos prison, Kensy and Max must join an urgent assignment to Queenstown, New Zealand. Time is of the essence - the escaped prisoners are two highly dangerous men out for revenge against both Pharos and the Spencer family.

'The twins head into the wilderness in pursuit. But the mountains are dangerous, and instability brought on by the earthquake is only making things worse. Meanwhile, strange things are happening back in London as one Pharos agent is attacked and another disappears. It will take all of Kensy and Max's hard-earned skills to come out of this mission alive - but what will be waiting for them when they do?' (Publication summary)

2023 longlisted Davitt Award Best Children's Novel
y separately published work icon Alice-Miranda in the Outback Melbourne : Puffin , 2020 19546354 2020 single work children's fiction children's

'Alice-Miranda and her friends are off to the Australian Outback! They're going to help an old family friend who's found himself short staffed during cattle mustering season. The landscape is like nothing else - wide open and dusty red as far as the eye can see. It's also full of quirky characters, like eccentric opal miner Sprocket McGinty and the enigmatic Taipan Dan.

'As the gang settles in at Hope Springs Station, mysteries start piling up. A strange map is discovered indicating treasure beneath the paddocks, a young girl is missing and there are unexplained water shortages. Can Alice-Miranda get to the bottom of this desert dilemma?' (Publication summary)

2021 longlisted Davitt Award Best Children's Novel
2021 shortlisted REAL Awards Fiction for Younger Readers
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