SUBJECT INDEX- C (Part 1).
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down to see books with these subjects and themes.
Camels, Camping, Castles and Palaces,
Cats, Caves, Centaurs, Christianity.
Camels
Hairy George (Max,
Mum and Aunt Jessica are off on a camel trekking holiday. A camel called Hairy George
makes life somewhat interesting for Max.)
Matt the Mage; First Spells (2004) (Matt wants to be a mage…
but one of his first challenges is Bertie the camel who used to be something
else.)
Three Loony Months
(Granny goes off on a camel trek and is missing for some time.)
Camping
AURORA (Campers
start a fire on Jericho Island which Aurora, Pat and Josh have to put out)
ANGIE THE BRAVE (Angie
has great imaginary adventures while camping at the beach)
CAMPING IN THE
TOWN HALL (A girl and her father camp in the town hall during a flood.)
CANDLE IRON (Allyso
sleeps rough on her journey through McAnerin.)
DOWN RIVER (Three
girls camp by a Tasmanian river)
FOOLS' GOLD
(Adult novel - Abigail goes on a camping trip to her old hometown, and ends up
sharing a tent with two miners in a nineteenth century shanty town.)
GREAT (Camping
isn't so "great" in a storm.)
IN THE BLINK OF AN
EYE (Tam and her alien mother camp across Otherworld as they search for a
missing unicorn.)
IN SEARCH OF A
HUSBAND (Adult novel- Rue and Marcus are forced to make a makeshift camp
while stranded by outback floods)
KISSING COUSINS (Adult
novel - Alister and Trina have to camp in a shepherd's hut during a Tasmanian
high-country rainstorm.)
LOOKING OUT FOR
SAM (Sam and Bree camp in a hikers' hut while bushwalking up a mountain.)
NIGHT MUST ALWAYS
COME (Adult novel - Suzo and Tad camp in an old house when a snowstorm
knocks out the power.)
O'CONNOR'S LAST
STAND (Adult novel - O'Connor has been camping for years in the outback when
Annabel meets him. She is riding the boundary of Ballahoo Station and camping
on the way.)
Swag Dog (Pel
camps out with Tobor, a highly unusual dog)
THREE LOONY MONTHS
(George camps in the library and then in the attic.)
THREE MISSING DAYS
(Steve and Matt go camping and bushwalking)
TIMEDETECTORS (Two
boys camp at the Asbestos Ranges and discover a skull)
TIME OFF (Rosemary
camps with her new step family at the beach shack)
TRANSLATIONS IN
CELADON (Teenagers camp in a strange world - but they're really not
themselves)
WELCOME TO THE
WEIRDIE CLUB (Julia is forced to go on a camping trip with Cousin Alice.)
Castles and Palaces
AMY AMARYLLIS (Amy
Day swaps identities with her double, who lives in an Ankoorian castle)
CANDLE IRON (Allyso
Tormblood's home, the Castle Torm, is under siege.)
THE CAT AND THE
KING (A king and his cat enjoy one another's company at the palace)
KALLIE AND THE
FISHERMEN (A wizard's apprentice goes to live in a castle)
KALLIE FETCHES THE
DRAGON (Trouble at the wizard's castle)
Knightfall - The
Reluctant Knight Book 1. (2002) (Simon finds himself living in a castle)
THE LONELY DRAGON (A
dragon visits a palace)
TRANSLATIONS IN
CELADON (A group of travellers head for the palace in the ruined city of
Cerulean)
Cats
BATHING BEAUTY (The
children agree to look after Beauty the cat, but then comes the great jam
disaster.)
CAT BURGLAR OF
PETHAVEN DRIVE (Sylvester Slink moves into the neighbourhood and things
begin to vanish. Mr D must investigate.)
THE CAT AND THE
KING (A cat and a king are friends)
CD AND THE GIANT
CAT (CD befriends the Lone One, a desert feral or giant mutated cat.)
THE DAY THE COWS
SLEPT IN (Short stories, including a cat story starring two cats called
Gingerpop and Coldpower)
DREADFUL DAVID (Granny's
kitten gets Davidized...)
(Justin's
mum has a spoiled cat called Mocha)
THE GAME OF CAT
AND LUCY (The Cat is very special and very intelligent. He enjoys playing
"cat and mouse" with his young handler, Lucy)
HER KINGDOM FOR A
PONY (Short stories, including one called "Springford
Catastrophe")
THE INCREDIBLE
SMELL (Joseph the cat is blamed for the incredible smell.)
IN MARA'S CASE
(Adult novel - Mara has a cat called Brindled Catastrophe - BC)
KISSING COUSINS (Adult
novel - A ginger cat helps Trina feel at home in the country)
LOOKING AFTER
PEPPER (The black cat from down the road plays spies in Tara's garden.)
THE MONSTER MINDER
(Pet-sitter Trish looks after a cat called Tina)
MY AUNT AGATHA (A
black cat holds the clue to a murder mystery)
ONE WEIRD WEEK (Justin's
mum's cat Mocha is allergic...)
THERE WERE CATS (A
youthful witch must select a cat as her companion. She chooses a ginger one.)
THREE MISSING DAYS
(Young Rose has a cat called Scratcat)
WHAT A DAY (The
Mean Monstrosity terrorises poor Mr D)
Caves
AMY AMARYLLIS (Amy
is kidnapped and shut in a cave in the land of Ankoor)
AURORA (Aurora
has her own lair in a cave on Jericho Island)
CANDLE IRON (Allyso
Tormblood must deal with a gemdrake to gain entry into the Crystallium
Caverns.)
FOOLS' GOLD (adult
novel - Not a cave, but Mad Matt's Mine makes a pretty good facsimile when
Abigail shelters from the rain)
HERO (Tim is
washed into a cave under the bank of the creek, where he finds a UFO)
KISSING COUSINS (adult
novel - A visit to some Tasmanian caves is exhausting for Trina)
O'CONNOR'S LAST
STAND (Adult novel - Flynn O'Connor has lived in the cavern at O'Connor's
Leap for a century or more)
SHADOWDANCERS (An
exiled Ankoorian healer tries to help a mindless girl who is brought to her
cave)
SHAKEDOWN (Sam
Cool shelters under an overhanging rock ledge on Miracle Reef. )
THREE MISSING DAYS
(Rose and her family live in a cavehold)
Triple Treat (adult
novel - Estranged couple Sabrina and Karl must spend time in a cave at
Atonement Island's Cap le Blanc during a rainstorm)
WOLFMASTER (A
cave swim triggers an adventure for a shy boy when he meets a wolf from the
past)
Centaurs
HECTOR'S GARDEN (Hector
the centaur statue is reconstructed and finds his old world gone)
Christianity
ANNA'S OWN (Adult
novel - A kindly priest rides out to christen Anna's baby)
LOOKING OUT FOR
SAM (A Christian boy meets an agnostic girl - and sparks begin to fly)
ONE WEIRD WEEK (Justin's
friend Evie is Father Tom Janus's daughter.)
POWDERFLASH (Adult
novel- A convict priest marries his protegé to a brideship girl)
TRANSLATIONS IN
CELADON (Some of the action takes place in St Boniface's - a Catholic
college)
TRINITY STREET (Some
of the action takes place in St Saviour's - a Catholic college)
