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A Boat for Bridget by James Roy
Category: Children's | Series: UQP Young Adult Fiction Ser.
Meet Bridget. Bridget's father loves to sail. Her mother loves to garden. Is there a problem? Not until Will's love for the sea draws him back to the thrill and excitement of ocean racing, a world he left behind before Bridget was born.From the author of Captain Mackcomes a story in the tradition of the ...Show more
All the World at War - People and Places, 1914-1918 by James Charles Roy
Category: Military History
While battles and wars and 'the clash of civilizations' are as old as time itself, there is little doubt that the conflagration of 1914-1918 was something unique and terrifyingly new. There was not a corner of the globe that did not feel its effects, some more than others, but the scope of its impact on ...Show more
Anonymity Jones by James Roy
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Once there lived a girl called Anonymity Jones. Anonymity's life is falling apart. Her father has left to have a mid-life crisis, her mother's new boyfriend is a definite worry, her Europe-bound sister has changed her name and all her girl friends are now girlfriends, with boyfriends. It's decision time ...Show more
Captain Mack by James Roy
Category: Teenage/Young Adult Fiction
In this International Year of the Older Person (Towards a Society for All Ages) James Roy has written an exceptional book, devoid of sentimentality, about the friendship between a young boy in his first year of high school and an elderly man living alone in a nursing home. Danny is a quiet studious boy ...Show more
Chook Doolan Saves the Day (Chook Doolan #3) by James Roy
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Chook Doolan
City by James Roy
Category: Young Adult Fiction
City by James Roy is the companion short story collection to the highly successful and award-wining book, Town, published by UQP in 2007 and is a striking collection of connected stories that reflect our lives and those of the people that we pass each day.
Ghostly Shadows (Edsel Grizzler #3) by James Roy
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Edsel Grizzler Trilogy
Edsel and his friend Jacq are digging a hole under the blazing Widen sun but they know why. And when they finally make their way to Grand City, the list of things they don't know just gets longer and longer. Everything they see, everything they're told, just makes them more confused. So can Edsel keep t ...Show more
Hunting Elephants by James Roy
Category: Children's
6 DISCS. Running time: 6.75 hours. Harry and his family are heading out to the country for Uncle Frank's fourth wedding, and Harry would rather be anywhere else. Family tensions are already high, so what will happen when Frank's Vietnam War experiences come up? If they come up. But perhaps Harry has mor ...Show more
Ichabod Hart & the Lighthouse by Roy James
Category: Fiction
Who is Ichabod Hart, and who is his feisty sidekick, Clementine Arabella Oakes? This is history told like you've never heard it before, where steam is king, convicts are half man and half machine, dirty tricks are simply the way things are done, and almost anything can happen.Ichabod Hart and the Lighth ...Show more