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Interned (CBCA Notable 2023) by Pamela Rushby
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
Based on true events, Interned is a moving, well-researched and evocative historical fiction novel that highlights an often forgotten moment in Australian history. It’s 1914. Gretta lives a privileged life in Singapore, the daughter of a businessman; Tilly lives a modest life in Brisbane, the daughter ...Show more
Lizzie and Margaret Rose by Pamela Rushby
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
London, 1940. Bombs are falling and 10-year-old Margaret Rose survives a deadly raid, but her family home is destroyed. In faraway Townsville in Queensland, her aunt is ready to take her in, although her 11-year-old cousin Lizzie is not so sure. But first there is a long and dangerous voyage to a strang ...Show more
The Mud Puddlers by Pamela Rushby
$18.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
What lies hidden in the mud? What might happen if you look at it too long? And what will happen if you let it go? Twelve-year-old Nina is not happy. Her scientist parents are spending a year in Antarctica. And Nina's being sent to London to stay with her Aunt Bee, an intertidal archaeologist, who lives ...Show more
The Mummy Smugglers of Crumblin Castle by Pamela Rushby
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
A crumbling castle, a moat full of crocodiles, a catastrophe of kittens, and let's not forget the villains and the mummies! This rambunctious story has it all. It's England, 1873. When 12-year-old Hatshepsut (Hattie) Lambton's guardian is unfortunately eaten by a crocodile, Hattie is sent to live with h ...Show more
The Ratcatcher's Daughter by Pamela Rushby
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
It's 1900. Thirteen-year-old Issy McKelvie leaves school and starts her first job - very reluctantly - as a maid in an undertaking establishment. She thinks this is about as low as you can go. But there's worse to come. Issy becomes an unwilling rat-catcher when the plague - the Black Death - arrives in ...Show more
Those Girls by Pamela Rushby
$20.00 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction
New, from award-winning historical novelist, Pamela Rushby, exploring the roles, and struggles, of women in wartime The poster had a picture of a tanned, healthy girl, wearing a regulation uniform hat and shorts that were, surely, anything but regulation. When Hilly volunteers for the Women's Land Arm ...Show more
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