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Escape to the River Sea by Emma Carroll; Eva Ibbotson (Preliminary Work by)
16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
Beautiful and full of adventure, Escape to the River Sea is Emma Carroll's compelling novel inspired by Eva Ibbotson's bestselling, classic masterpiece, Journey to the River Sea.'A joyously animal-packed adventure.' - Hilary McKay, Costa Award-winning author of The Skylark's WarIn 1946, Rosa Sweetman, a ...Show more
Escape to the River Sea by Emma Carroll
26.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
Beautiful and full of adventure, Escape to the River Sea is Emma Carroll's compelling novel inspired by Eva Ibbotson's bestselling, classic masterpiece, Journey to the River Sea.'Unputdownable storytelling. I loved it.' - Hilary McKay, Costa Award-winning author of The Skylark's WarIn 1946, Rosa Sweetma ...Show more
In Darkling Wood by Emma Carroll
13.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
'You're telling me there are fairies in this wood?' When Alice's brother gets a longed-for chance for a heart transplant, Alice is suddenly bundled off to her estranged grandmother's house. There's nothing good about staying with Nell, except for the beautiful Darkling Wood at the end of her garden - bu ...Show more
Letters from the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
We weren't supposed to be going to the pictures that night. We weren't even meant to be outside, not in a blackout, and definitely not when German bombs had been falling on London all month like pennies from a jar. February, 1941. After months of bombing raids in London, twelve-year-old Olive Bradshaw a ...Show more
Secrets of a Sun King by Emma Carroll
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
London, 1922. A discovery from ancient Egypt . . . A cursed package . . . The untold story of a young pharaoh . . . When Lilian Kaye finds a parcel on her grandad's doorstep, she is shocked to see who sent it: a famous Egyptologist, found dead that very morning, according to every newspaper in England! ...Show more
Somerset Tsunami by Emma Carroll
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
A sinking boat.A girl in disguise.A disappearing sea. When Fortune Sharpe carves a boat from a tree with her beloved brother, Gem, she's only having a bit of fun. But now is not the time for a girl to be drawing attention to herself. She is sent away to find work dressed as a boy. Luckily a rich manor ...Show more
Strange Star by Emma Carroll
14.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
They were coming tonight to tell ghost stories. 'A tale to freeze the blood,' was the only rule. Switzerland, 1816. On a stormy summer night, Lord Byron and his guests are gathered round the fire. Felix, their serving boy, can't wait to hear their creepy tales. Yet real life is about to take a chilling ...Show more
The Ghost Garden by Emma Carroll
12.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
Queen of historical fiction Emma Carroll makes her Barrington Stoke debut with a powerful, evocative, and spine-tingling story of childhood on the brink of war.
The Little Match Girl Strikes Back by Emma Carroll
17.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
It only takes one strike: A powerful feminist reworking of the Hans Christian Andersen classic, from bestselling and award-winning creators Emma Carroll and Lauren Child. 'Superb. About community and voices and standing up for yourself’ Phil Earle, British Book Award-winning author of When the Sky Fall ...Show more
The Little Match Girl Strikes Back by Emma Carroll
19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
It only takes one strike: A powerful feminist reworking of the Hans Christian Andersen classic, from bestselling and award-winning creators Emma Carroll and Lauren Child. Bridie works hard to feed her family, selling matches on the streets of Victorian London. After an incident leaves her with only thre ...Show more
The Tale of Truthwater Lake by Emma Carroll
16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
The future has a lot to learn from the past in this time-travelling adventure that explores the before and after of global warming. On one side of the underwater street is the remains of a house... It's beautiful here, and eerie, a lost kingdom, a ghost village... It's the near-future and Britain is hav ...Show more
The Week at World's End by Emma Carroll
14.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
1962, London during the Cuban Missile Crisis What would you do if there was a real possibility that the world might end? Ray, aware of his parents' building worry, decides to take matters into his own hands. He builds a shelter in the woods behind his house in the hope that he never has to use it. Only ...Show more