Nanberry (29 page)

Historical

Somewhere Around the Corner • Dancing with Ben Hall

Soldier on the Hill • Daughter of the Regiment

Hitler's Daughter • Lady Dance • The White Ship

How the Finnegans Saved the Ship • Valley of Gold

Tom Appleby, Convict Boy

They Came on Viking Ships • Macbeth and Son

Pharaoh • A Rose for the Anzac Boys

Oracle • The Night They Stormed Eureka

A Waltz for Matilda

Fiction

Rain Stones • Walking the Boundaries • The Secret Beach

Summerland • Beyond the Boundaries

A Wombat Named Bosco • The Book of Unicorns

The Warrior — The Story of a Wombat • Tajore Arkle

Missing You, Love Sara • Dark Wind Blowing Ride the Wild Wind: The Golden Pony and Other Stories

Non-fiction

Seasons of Content • A Year in the Valley

How the Aliens from Alpha Centauri

Invaded My Maths Class and Turned Me into a Writer

How to Guzzle Your Garden • The Book of Challenges

Stamp, Stomp, Whomp

The Fascinating History of Your Lunch

Big Burps, Bare Bums and Other Bad-Mannered Blunders To the Moon and Back • Rocket Your Child into Reading

The Secret World of Wombats

How High Can a Kangaroo Hop?

The Animal Stars Series

1. The Goat who Sailed the World

2. The Dog who Loved a Queen

3. The Camel who Crossed Australia

4. The Donkey who Carried the Wounded

5. The Horse who Bit a Bushranger

Outlands Trilogy

In the Blood • Blood Moon • Flesh and Blood

School for Heroes

Lessons for a Werewolf Warrior

Dance of the Deadly Dinosaurs

Wacky Families Series

1. My Dog the Dinosaur • 2. My Mum the Pirate

3. My Dad the Dragon • 4. My Uncle Gus the Garden Gnome

5. My Uncle Wal the Werewolf • 6. My Gran the Gorilla

7. My Auntie Chook the Vampire Chicken

8. My Pa the Polar Bear

Phredde Series

1. A Phaery Named Phredde

2. Phredde and a Frog Named Bruce

3. Phredde and the Zombie Librarian

4. Phredde and the Temple of Gloom

5. Phredde and the Leopard-Skin Librarian

6. Phredde and the Purple Pyramid

7. Phredde and the Vampire Footy Team

8. Phredde and the Ghostly Underpants

Picture Books

Diary of a Wombat (with Bruce Whatley)

Pete the Sheep (with Bruce Whatley)

Josephine Wants to Dance (with Bruce Whatley)

The Shaggy Gully Times (with Bruce Whatley)

Emily and the Big Bad Bunyip (with Bruce Whatley)

Baby Wombat's Week (with Bruce Whatley)

Queen Victoria's Underpants (with Bruce Whatley)

The Tomorrow Book (with Sue deGennaro)

Christmas Wombat (with Bruce Whatley)

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:

French, Jackie.

Nanberry: black brother white / Jackie French.

ISBN: 978 0 7322 9022 1 (pbk.)

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For children.

Australia—Social conditions—19th century—Juvenile fiction.
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