SUBJECT INDEX- C (Part 2).
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Cockatoos and parrots, computers, fax, phone and
internet convicts and crime, cooking
Cockatoos or Parrots
THE ASTOUNDING
SOUND (The Professor's parrot has comment to make)
BLUE GOLD (Cockatoo-like
aliens help colonists on the planet Azurea)
BUDGIE ROCK. (William
the budgie makes a name for himself!)
ELLA (Ella
Parrot frightens a little girl when she wants an apple)
GHOST COLLECTOR (One of the ghosts in the Haunted Guesthouse is a
pink "Scratch Cocky" ghost)
GOOD AND READY (Grandad's
parrot is up a tree and won't come down)
THE INCREDIBLE
SMELL (The Professor's parrot has comment to make)
MIX AND MATCH (Adult
novel - Jasper has four cockatoos as part of his household; Doc and Nyssa are
Sulphur crests and then there are the two ancient galahs)
MY FATHER; THE MAD
PROFESSOR (Erica Query's father has a poetical parrot named Quintus)
PARROT SEED (Ella
Parrot's waste seed turns into sunflowers)
PARROTY (A
school aviary cockatoo named Parroty has a chance to try life as a human)
SNACK ATTACK! (Quintus
the Parrot has something to say as Erica and Jeremy try to sell snacks.)
TIMEDETECTORS (Coxie's cockatoo Cracker is one of his best friends)
TIMEDETECTORS 2; A
THEFT IN TIME (Love of cockatoos forms a bridge between Coxie and James; a
boy and a man born centuries apart)
Computers, Fax, Phones
and Internet
The Antitourists (Xann
and Keira are e-pals.)
CHAT (An
internet chat room brings real-life friendship to Hallie)
EEEEEEMAIL (An
electronic banshee is haunting the 'net and it's after Kathleen O'Grady)
The Lamburger
Emergency (Jaz and Steve use a mobile phone to call for help when trapped in
floods).
LUCAS IS A PEST (E-mails
between Australia and the USA concerning someone's small brother.)
THE GAME OF CAT
AND LUCY (A computerised headset allows The Cat to talk to Lucy)
KISSING COUSINS (adult
novel - The Internet ties up the phone line - and leads indirectly to a
marriage)
MIX AND MATCH (Adult
novel - Jasper's computer assists in his courtship)
O'CONNOR'S LAST
STAND (Adult novel - Conduit On-line Magazine is a front for a drug dealer
named Jackson)
SANDSTORM IN A
SLEEPING BAG (Scary e-mails. Are they Roscoe's idea of a joke?)
WOLFMASTER (A
fax sends Dane on a wild adventure)
Convicts and crime
ALL THE SEA BETWEEN
(Teenagers put on a play with a convict heroine)
ANNA'S OWN (Adult
novel - Anna, a convict girl, builds a life for herself in Van Diemens Land)
ANOTHER GOOD
FRIEND (Teens write a play with a convict heroine)
Beyond the Black
Stump (Michael and Ben overhear four men plotting a crime).
CANDLE IRON - (Various
people try to take what doesn't belong to them.)
THE CHILDREN'S
BOOK OF AUSTRALIA (Some famous convicts are listed in this book)
Dolphin (Dolphin
the convict girl routs bushranger Bad Jack.)
THE GAME OF CAT
AND LUCY (The Cat is an experimental security feature. In the course of the
story The Cat outwits a thief)
KAYAK (Mark is
convicted of a crime in the future)
MY AUNT AGATHA (A
murder has been committed- and the clue is a cat)
O'CONNOR'S LAST
STAND (adult novel - A drug dealer plays mindgames with his ex-wife Annabel,
while a suspected murderer helps her)
POWDERFLASH (adult
novel - Murder, theft, GBH, suspected bigamy, wife-selling, abduction - all and
more in this historical romance)
SHAKEDOWN (Sam
Cool gets away with the fraud of the century - for a while)
TASMANIA; A GUIDE (Talks of convicts and other characters)
TIMEDETECTORS (Skullduggery in the future leads two boys to help a dying scientist)
TIMEDETECTORS 2; A
THEFT IN TIME (A conman from the future offers a sick boy a chance of a
cure)
TIMOTHY
WHUFFENPUFFEN-WHIPPERSNAPPER (Theft and misdirection lead a bashful boy to
feats of bravery)
TRANSLATIONS IN
CELADON (Two girls commit a murder, and the witnesses must take desperate
measures)
TRINITY STREET (Wickedness
in the future may be the salvation of a young contemporary girl)
WICKED ROSE (A
bushranger pursues her wicked ways in style)
Wedlocks (adult
novel - Theft, fraud and abduction lead a young widow to a new life)
Cooking
BLUE MOON ANIMAL
DAY (Caroline makes the curry of her life)
EMMIE'S Soup (Patsy,
Vivvie and George learn how soup can save them during the Great Depression).
FIVE EASY LESSONS (Nana
is a cook par excellence)
KISSING COUSINS (adult
novel - Trina's kissing cousin has problems with the neighbour's casserole)
MRS HONEY'S LIST (Mrs
Honey is organising the cake-stall for the school fete)
MY FATHER; THE MAD
PROFESSOR (Erica clashes with her father on the subject of suitable diet!)
POWDERFLASH
(adult novel - Garnet learns to cook in Colonial NSW.)
THE POWERFUL
PICKLE PROBLEM (Grandad Pickle makes wonderful pickles, but a blow to the
head has robbed him of the recipe)
Swag Dog (Pen
must learn to cook when he heads off with Tobor the swag dog).
STICKY PICTURE (Toby
makes a honey sandwich with terrible results)
SUMMER MAGIC (Grandma
takes up cooking with prize-winning results)