The summer turns into an intriguing adventure as Beau meets Lelee and together with Beau's younger sister they search the Bay of Angels in their boat for a box that Lelee believes contains a fortune. They are constantly being watched by a group of smugglers who are also looking for the box.

Tachi, a small horse that has been taken from his Mongolian home and transported to Wales, desperately struggles to find his way back to his native land.

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Product Description: Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, 1987Winner of the Ethel Turner Prize, 1986Hailed as an Australian Huckleberry Finn, The True Story of Spit MacPhee is a timeless piece of literature. Originally published in 1986, and set in the 1930s in the fictional Murray River town of St Helen, it captures a time and place with a beautiful balance of realism and nostalgia...read more

In St. Helen, Australia, during the Depression, young Juli Christo's mathematical and musical genius outrages the townspeople's conformist sensibilities and those of his mother's extreme evangelical sect, resulting in his being brought to trial on a charge of matricide

When Lilli Stubeck, a gypsy girl, is sold to Miss Dagleish, a wealthy spinster, she resists the woman's efforts to tame her

In a small town in the Australian outback during the 1930s, Tom and Peggy struggle against the social tensions and conflicts that make their romance a delicate subject

Eric enlivens his lonely life in a small Australian town by trying to break the wild pony his traveling father has left with him.