SUBJECT INDEX- B.
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Bandicoots Banshees - Bees or wasps - Boats or ships
Bunyips Bushrangers
Bandicoots
THAT BOTHERSOME
BANDISCOOT (A bandicoot wreaks havoc on Dad's lawn)
Banshees
EEEEEEMAIL (A girl encounters an electronic banshee)
Bees or Wasps
DAISY TOES (A
bee sting ruins Mimi's romantic attempt to see herself as the Princess of the
HERO (Bees provide the clue a young boy needs to communicate with aliens)
A STICKY PICTURE (Wasps invade an art exhibition and it's Toby's fault!)
Boats or Ships
A CREW FOR
CAPTAIN KATE (A pirate captain searches for a crew and decides to kidnap children
from the local school)
DOWN RIVER (Three
girls and a dog in a dinghy; The Native Hen.)
KALLIE FETCHES
THE DRAGON (A wizard's apprentice finds a dragon pestering the fishermen)
KALLIE AND THE
FISHERMEN (A fisherman's daughter is apprenticed to a wizard)
KAYAK (Two
boys kayak down the
KISSING COUSINS (adult
novel - A young woman crosses
LOOKING OUT FOR
SAM (A teenager meets the boy of her dreams on the ferry - but there's a
catch)
Mangrove Mystery Ruby's brother Oliver takes Auntie and his
sisters out in a boat on the
MIX AND MATCH (adult
novel - Yachts and yachties - and a young woman who can't swim. The yacht Aphrodite
plays a major part, so does the motorboat Jemima.)
POWDERFLASH (Adult
novel - A brideship girl arrives aboard the Clara, marries in haste and
repents for quite some time)
SELKA (An
island ferryman who pilots the Akira is "seawise" - divers
search for treasure in the Scottish isles.)
SHAKEDOWN (The
yacht Amanda May and a reef form the backdrop for a daring piece of
fraud)
Triple Treat (Adult
novel - A cruise-ship hostess meets trouble in the shape of her ex-fiancé
aboard the Jenny Penmarrick)
Wedlocks (Adult
novel - A young woman is washed ashore - is she a shipwreck victim from the
sunken Bula Suva, or is something more sinister afoot?)
A Wild Welcome (Fleur
and her family face storm and shipwreck aboard the immigrant ship Kingdom.)
Bunyips
BUNYIPS DON’T (A young bunyip learns his job)
THE BUNYIP'S LAIR
(Elvie learns of the mysterious bunyip's lair and resolves to find it.)
THE BUNYIP WAKES (A bunyip
wakes from hibernation and finds friends in the modern world)
Bushrangers
ANNA'S OWN (A
young colonial wife meets a desperate bushranger)
Beyond the Black
Stump (Michael and Ben hear four bushrangers making plans.)
THE CHILDREN'S
BOOK OF AUSTRALIA (Some famous bushrangers)
Dolphin (Dolphin
the convict girl routs bushranger Bad Jack.)
GOLD’S BRIDE (Originally
published under the title: “POWDERFLASH”). (Adult novel - Bushrangers attack a
colonial farm and burn down Jeremiah Gold's house with him inside)
WICKED ROSE (Wicked
Rose is a faithful wife, a loving mother - and a bushranger as well)
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