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Our Australian Girl: The Ruby Stories by Penny Matthews
$26.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl Ser.
It's 1930 . . . and Ruby Quinlan lives in a big house in Adelaide with her parents and her fox terrier, Baxter. As she prepares for her twelfth birthday party, Ruby has never been happier, but the world outside is experiencing harder times. Ruby knows that lots of people are losing their jobs, but her o ...Show more
Ruby and the Country Cousins (Our Australian Girl - Ruby #2) by Penny Matthews
$14.95 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl Ruby #2
It's 1931 . . . and Ruby and her family have lost everything in the Great Depression. Leaving behind her dad, her school friends and everything she knows, Ruby must move to Kettle Farm to stay with her cousins. Life in the country is new and strange, and Ruby has never felt like such an outsider. Thankf ...Show more
Ruby of Kettle Farm (Our Australian Girl - Ruby #4) by Penny Matthews; Lucia Masciullo (Illustrator)
$14.95 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1930 Ser.
Follow Ruby and join her adventure in the final of four stories about a happy-go-lucky girl in a time of great change.It's 1931, and Kettle Farm is starting to feel like home, but Ruby is still desperately worried about her dad. He hasn't written for weeks, and nobody knows where he is. Will Dad ever co ...Show more
School Days for Ruby (Our Australian Girl - Ruby #3) by Penny Matthews; Lucia Masciullo (Illustrator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1930 Ser.
It's 1931 . . .and Ruby is settling into life at her school in the country. But when a desperately poor family moves to the area, no one wants to be friends with them. Ruby will have to choose sides, and she has already made one enemy at school - Doris Spinks. Will Ruby do what she believes is right? An ...Show more
Show Day by Penny Matthews; Andrew McLean (Illustrator)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-Fiction
Its Show Day! Everyone has taken weeks to get ready. Now the whole family, including Goldie the cow, Albert the grumpy rooster and Bart the guinea pig, is off to the country showgrounds for a day of fun and excitement!
Something About Water by Penny Matthews Illustrated by Tom Jellet
$27.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-Fiction
Water isn't exactly a new topic, and everyone should know about the water cycle. But this book tells how water got here and how it's in everything, including trees and plants and animals and even us. Water is precious, and the book shows that the small things we can do to save it can make a big differen ...Show more
The Gift by Penny Matthews
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Hardbacks
A rather plain bear sits next to a gorgeous plush crocodile in the toyshop. As Christmas shopping becomes frantic, each one hopes to be chosen as a gift, and to find a home with a child to love him. But as hope dwindles, the little bear makes his own gift to the crocodile.