Bad-Mannered Blunders
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The hole was moving! The walls were falling down … There was a rope under his arms. There was a face above. An anxious face, yelling something down to him, something he didn’t understand. A strange face, with something wrong about the eyes. Tanned skin, unshaven, black hair a bit too long …
Joey knows there is a Japanese soldier hiding in the hills. It was a Japanese man, a soldier, who hauled him out of the mine shaft, who lit the fire to bring the searchers, and then disappeared. But nobody believes Joey. After all, it is World War II and children have nightmares … Joey knows he will have to find the soldier himself … he must find him … could he be part of an invasion force … could he be sending messages to waiting submarines?
Just shut your eyes and picture yourself walking around a corner. That’s what my friend told me. Somewhere around the corner you’ll be safe .
The demonstration was wild, out of control. Barbara was scared. She saw the policeman running towards her. She needed to escape. She closed her eyes and did precisely that: she walked somewhere around the corner … into another demonstration … another time.
Barbara was lucky—she met Young Jim who took her out of the strange, frightening city to his home. It was 1932, when Australia was in the grip of the Depression, and Jim lived in a shanty town …
But Barbara found a true friend and a true home—somewhere safe around the corner.
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Copyright
Angus&Robertson
An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers , Australia
First published in Australia in 1998
This edition published in 2014
by HarperCollins Publishers Pty Limited
ABN 36 009 913 517
A member of the HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Limited Group
www.harpercollins.com.au
Copyright © Jackie French 1998
The right of her to be identified as the moral rights author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000 (Cth).
Poem on page 84 ‘To Daffodils’ written by Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
French, Jackie.
Daughter of the regiment.
I. Title.
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www.jackiefrench.com
The hole was moving! The walls were falling down … There was a rope under his arms. There was a face above. An anxious face, yelling something down to him, something he didn’t understand. A strange face, with something wrong about the eyes. Tanned skin, unshaven, black hair a bit too long …
Joey knows there is a Japanese soldier hiding in the hills. It was a Japanese man, a soldier, who hauled him out of the mine shaft, who lit the fire to bring the searchers, and then disappeared. But nobody believes Joey. After all, it is World War II and children have nightmares … Joey knows he will have to find the soldier himself … he must find him … could he be part of an invasion force … could he be sending messages to waiting submarines?
Just shut your eyes and picture yourself walking around a corner. That’s what my friend told me. Somewhere around the corner you’ll be safe .
The demonstration was wild, out of control. Barbara was scared. She saw the policeman running towards her. She needed to escape. She closed her eyes and did precisely that: she walked somewhere around the corner … into another demonstration … another time.
Barbara was lucky—she met Young Jim who took her out of the strange, frightening city to his home. It was 1932, when Australia was in the grip of the Depression, and Jim lived in a shanty town …
But Barbara found a true friend and a true home—somewhere safe around the corner.
Click here to buy Somewhere around the Corner
Copyright
Angus&Robertson
An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers , Australia
First published in Australia in 1998
This edition published in 2014
by HarperCollins Publishers Pty Limited
ABN 36 009 913 517
A member of the HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Limited Group
www.harpercollins.com.au
Copyright © Jackie French 1998
The right of her to be identified as the moral rights author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000 (Cth).
Poem on page 84 ‘To Daffodils’ written by Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
This book is copyright. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
HarperCollins Publishers
Level 13, 201 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
Unit D1, 63 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, Auckland 0632, New Zealand
A 53, Sector 57, Noida, UP, India
77–85 Fulham Palace Road, London W6 8JB, United Kingdom
2 Bloor Street East - 20th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M4W 1A8, Canada
195 Broadway, New York, NY 10007, USA
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
French, Jackie.
Daughter of the regiment.
I. Title.
A823.3
Cover design by Antart
Cover images: Families at Happy Valley, Hood Collection, State Library of NSW
Source ISBN: 9780207196744
Ebook Edition © JULY ISBN: 9781460704431
Version: 2014-07-15
HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication .
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