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A Very Peculiar Plague (#2 City of Orphans) by Catherine Jinks
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: City of Orphans
'Bogles ain't like pigeons. They don't travel in flocks. So why is this corner o' London crawling with 'em?'Eleven-year-old Jem Barbary spent most of his early life picking pockets for a canny old crook named Sarah Pickles. Now she's betrayed him, and Jem wants revenge. He also wants to work for bogler ...Show more
A Very Singular Guild by Catherine Jinks
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: City of Orphans
Twelve-year-old Ned Roach used to scavenge for scraps along the Thames riverbank. But the recent plague of child-eating bogles in London means that he's now working as an apprentice to Alfred Bunce, the bogler.Alongside Jem Barbary and (sometimes) Birdie McAdam, Ned must lure bogles out of their lairs s ...Show more
A Very Unusual Pursuit (#1 City of Orphans) by Catherine Jinks
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: City of Orphans
Monsters have been infesting London's dark places for centuries, eating every child who gets too close. That's why ten-year-old Birdie McAdam works for Alfred Bunce, the bogler. With her beautiful voice and dainty looks, Birdie is the bait that draws bogles from their lairs so that Alfred can kill them. ...Show more
Barney (HB) by Catherine Jinks
Category: Graphic Novels
Barney loves cat food. Barney loves greens. Barney loves bacon and biscuits and beans...
Charlatan by Catherine Jinks
Category: Biography
Thomas Guthrie Carr is charged by Eliza Gray with mesmerising her and raping her while she was under his influence. But if mesmerism and Mr Carr are shams, was Eliza raped? In the tradition of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Charlatan is the story of a notorious nineteenth-century court case involving a l ...Show more
Daryl's Dinner by Catherine Jinks
Category: Fiction | Series: Aussie Nibbles
Daryl, one of the youngest magpies, is eager to feed himself, but he doesn't always choose the right things. Simple vocabulary, delightful illustrations and an engaging plot will capture and retain the interest of young children and act as the vital beginning to a lifetime of independent reading. Ages 6 ...Show more
Eglantine by Catherine Jinks; Melissa Chambers (Read by)
Category: Young Adult | Series: Allie's Ghost Hunters Ser.
Allie Gebhardt thought sharing a room with her younger brother Bethan was bad enough, but sharing a room with a ghost proves to be down right frightful. In this deliciously spooky tale, Allie's family is haunted by Eglantine Higgins, the ghost of a young girl who used to live in their house. After myste ...Show more
Eglantine by Catherine Jinks
Category: Children's
From a consummate storyteller comes this deliciously spooky junior novel about a family with a haunted house, and a ghost with a problem that needs solving ... Allie thought sharing a room with her brother was bad ... but sharing with a ghost was even worse! "We moved into our new house because my broth ...Show more
Eglantine: Allies ghost Hunters #1 by Jinks, Catherine
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Allie's Ghosthunters
Who is writing on the walls?..We moved into our new house because Mum liked the vibes. But those vibes turned scary when ghostly writing started appearing on the walls of Bethan's room. Mum tried a few new-age tricks, but couldn't stop the creepy nightmares. We even called in paranormal investigators, b ...Show more
Eloise by Catherine Jinks
Category: Children's
Playing about with ghosts can be dangerous, but Alethea needs all her detective skills, and the help of her friends, to solve the mystery of Eloise. Book 3 in Catherine Jinks' spooky ghost story series is gripping, creepy and unputdownable.Playing about with ghosts can be dangerous. That's why I wasn't ...Show more