SALLY ODGERS BOOKS G-I … Character lists
THE GHOST COLLECTOR,
(1988).
Melinda is a great one for collecting things, but she makes
a mistake when she adds a bull's tail tassel to her hair collection. During a
visit to her three feckless uncles and uninvolved great aunt, she begins her
most challenging collection yet! Copies available from sodgers@dodo.com.au
SUBJECTS (Ghosts, grandparents,
dogs, cockatoos)
GLORY GATE
Gavven's life is changing. The Whiteshirts have taken over at school, and everyone has to
paint their houses the same shade of lavender... Gavven's
little sister Sudeshi thinks that's a lovely idea,
but then the Whiteshirts say Sudeshi
has to live with Jamal's family instead... The world is changing, but there is
one hope left for those who don't fit in. The hope is called Glory Gate.
Glory Gate is a reading scheme novel with a serious theme.
Like A Boy's Best Friend, it shows the harsher face of science fiction.
SUBJECTS (Other countries,
adoption, Other worlds, fear and danger)
GOLD’S BRIDE (2005)
Garnet travels to
SUBJECTS (bushrangers, romance)
GUESS MY FRIENDS (2000)
Guess My Friends is a rhyming guessing game as the child
narrator describes various friends and invites the reader to guess their
identities.
SUBJECTS (insects, cockatoos,
frogs)
THE GAME OF CAT AND LUCY (1999)
The Cat is a special enhanced feline which the Prof has
bred especially to work with the police. Young Lucy is The Cat's handler, but
The Cat as been promised he need work for only a month. Lucy has just a little
time to work with The Cat and The Cat cooperates only when he chooses.
SUBJECTS (Cats, computers, crime
and convicts)
GETTING AROUND (1997)
Various forms of locomotion as children learn how to
"get around".
SUBJECTS (vehicles)
GOOD AND READY (1997)
Grandad's parrot is perched up
in a tree, and he will come down when he is "good and ready" and not
before!
Related books; Other parrots with minds of their own can be met in
TIMEDETECTORS, A THEFT IN TIME, ELLA, PARROT SEED, PARROTY and MIX AND MATCH.
SUBJECTS (cockatoos,
grandparents)
GREAT! (1997)
Everything's "great" to Mark... his less
confident friend isn't so sure!
SUBJECTS (fear and danger,
camping)
H - BOOKS
HAIRY GEORGE (2001)
Max, Mum and Aunt Jessica are off camel trekking. Trust Max
to end up with a camel called Hairy George!
Related books;
Mrs Case and Lori, of the camel trek, are Justin's
grandmother and aunt from the Bandinangi Books.
SUBJECTS (camels, grandparents,
outback, aunts and uncles, holidays)
THE HAUNTING OF ACE (1986)
Poodle McAllister is dead, but far from gone! Just who do
her family think they are? How dare they replace her with a lolloping
creature like Ace? Poodle fights back, but she finds out that life can be as
lonely as death if you haven't got friends.
SUBJECTS (dogs, ghosts)
THE HEAVY HIPPO (2006)
A child and her family and friend visit the science museum.
HECTOR'S GARDEN
Hector the centaur was carved by a master sculptor during
the Golden Age of Greece. Toppled by an earthquake, Hector lies forgotten until
a student named Yannis discovers him. Hector has
another chance, but how can he tell his stories when no-one wants to listen?
I love this story. Hector is one of my favourite
characters, and I'm glad I was able to give him his happy ending.
SUBJECTS (centaurs,
HELPING TOBY’S TEAM (2006)
A boy helps his big brother to carry items for a game.
HENRY'S EARS (1987)
Henry the dog has enormously long ears, and has to lead a
very quiet life - until the day he gets caught in the rain.
SUBJECTS (dogs)
HER KINGDOM FOR A PONY (1977)
Linked short stories set in the country town of
Related books; THE DAY THE COWS SLEPT IN.
"Kingdom" was my first published book, written while I was
still at school.
SUBJECTS (dogs, farms, cows,
horses)
HERO (1998)
Tim is seven years old and a hero! Kidnapped by aliens and
whisked away to the Purple Planet Tim uses his intelligence and compassion to
save the broken wing of a dragon.
HERO is sci-fi for very young readers.
SUBJECTS (aliens, dragons, caves,
fishing, dancing, other worlds)
HEY MUM! (1989)
"Hey Mum!" There's always something happening and
the heroine of this book just has to tell Mum all about it. Every hour, on the
hour, it's "Hey Mum!" until Dad comes home.
HIT FOR SIX (1998)
A backyard cricket game causes all kinds of trouble for
Jonathan.
The cricket game caused a lot of trouble for me, too - I don't know a
thing about cricket.
SUBJECTS (dogs, sport)
A HORRORDAY TO REMEMBER.
Baker, his Aunt Kris and Cousin Tiffany are off on their
travels, heading for the
SUBJECTS (journals, holidays,
grandparents, aunts and uncles)
Related
books - Soggy Doggy Dot Com and Creature Cottage also star Baker
and his family.
HOW TO HANDLE A VIVID IMAGINATION (1987)
Creative problems and even more creative solutions for
those with too-vivid imaginations.
SUBJECTS (monsters, fire, water)
HUGO'S REWARD
Davy loves his cow, Daff,
so he jumps at the chance of a cattle-handling weekend. That's until he discovers
he can’t take Daff and must be in charge of Hugo's
Reward.
SUBJECTS (cows)
I - BOOKS
I'M BIG ENOUGH (2002).
Joey Hopalong reckons he's big
enough to hop to Wallaby Glade all alone. His mum agrees, but the bush
busybodies have other ideas!
SUBJECTS (wallabies,
independence, animals)
THE INCREDIBLE SMELL (1993).
There's an incredible smell wafting down
Related books; THE ASTOUNDING SOUND is also about Fritz.
SUBJECTS (dogs, cats, parrots,
professors)
IN MARA'S CASE, (1989)
Mara Payne, writer and spinster, is an island of quiet in
the midst of a large and dramatic family. A chapter of accidents leads Mara to
masquerade in her cousin Trina's cast-off clothing, which leads in turn to a
curiously stop-go relationship with another writer who has no sense of
direction.
Related books; KISSING COUSINS is the story of Mara's cousin Trina.
SUBJECTS (cats, romance, acting,
cats, costume, cousins, dancing)
IN SEARCH OF A HUSBAND (1997)
Rue Trevallyn has it all -
wealth, beauty and a fulfilling career as a fantasy photographer. Then, days
before their wedding, her fiancé vanishes in the Australian outback. Rue and
her step-son elect set off on a desperate cross-country dash that brings them
into danger and romance.
Related books: MIX AND MATCH and TRIPLE TREAT feature characters and
settings in common.
SUBJECTS (romance, water,
camping, lost, fear and danger, old houses)
IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE (1999)
Tam is devastated when, "in the blink of an eye",
her otherworldly mother leaves home. Spending weekends in a different world
makes life difficult and Tam finds herself despised as a halfling.
And then a unicorn goes missing. It seems to Tam that if she finds it all her
problems will be solved in the blink of an eye.
SUBJECTS (unicorns, aliens,
camping, other worlds)
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