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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)

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