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Allan Baillie
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Magician
Fantasy novel for children, set in Australia in the distant future. By the award-winning author of TThe China Coin', TLittle Brother' and TRiverman' which won the 1988 IBBY Honour Diploma (Australia).
Treasure Hunters
The long barrel of a skeletal gun coughed streams of fire into the night. In a few moments the deck of the fishing boat burst into flame. Pat has joined his father on an old boat off the coast of a troubled Indonesian island to search for treasure. But as they follow a trail of clues to the world's richest shipwreck the violence on the island coils around them. In this powerful, action-packed thriller, master storyteller Allan Baillie takes us on a quest where the dangers are real and the cost of a mistake could be life.
Outpost
Something was in the rings that shouldn't have been there. Life on the remote moon Ord is dangerous. Random eruptions in the ice, extreme cold, loneliness and loss: it's all Dece knows. Until one day he sees a mysterious object caught in the rings of the nearby gas planet, Cotal. With no choice but to investigate, what he will find is so extraordinary that it is almost beyond understanding.
Cat's Mountain
Cat scooped leaves to add more over her body and then lay still. She could hear crashing from above . . . When Cat is dropped off at her grandmother's hut in a remote part of the bush, she suddenly finds herself on her own. What has happened, and what can she do? Piecing together clues, Cat starts making sense of things . . . but not the sort of sense she was hoping for. A gritty, thrilling adventure story from one of the best!
Little Brother
In Cambodia after the Vietnamese War, Vithy learns to overcome social upheaval, a hostile jungle, and his own inability to trust, in order to rescue his older brother.
Riverman
Summary: Tim was small for his age and always felt inferior, but found that courage bore no relation to size and learned to survive in rugged Franklin River country.
Imp
Brian and his parents move into a spooky house whose previous owner was obviously a witch, and quite soon strange things start to happen. After a frightening encounter in the cellar, Brian's cap catches the culprit, a bored household imp. Now Brian has to devise some way of keeping him under control.
The First Voyage
30,000 years ago, before the pyramids are built, before the Ice Age comes and goes, and before Neanderthals become extinct, the Yam tribe live in peace on Bird Island. But the Crocodile tribe have other ideas . . . The ferocious Crocodile warriors have already killed Bent Beak's pa, and now they seem determined to take out his whole tribe. The only way to survive is to flee the island. But where will they go? As the Yam tribe brave the perils of the sea, will they survive the voyage into the unknown, and what awaits them just over the horizon? An enthralling story about the plight of the very first boat people, of their desperation, bravery and hope.
The Excuse
On the way to school, Pete comes across an alien whose spaceship has broken down. But will the teacher believe this excuse?
