R. A Spratt
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The world's most fabulous nanny pig is back in this side-splitting sequel to The Adventures of Nanny Piggins!
When Mr. Green announces his diabolical plan-he has decided to get married-his children are horrified. Because if he finds a wife, he'll get fire their beloved nanny. Breakfast without chocolate? Never! Someone must stop him, and Nanny Piggins is just the pig to do it!
R.A. Spratt's delightfully funny follow-up to her...
When Mr. Green announces his diabolical plan-he has decided to get married-his children are horrified. Because if he finds a wife, he'll get fire their beloved nanny. Breakfast without chocolate? Never! Someone must stop him, and Nanny Piggins is just the pig to do it!
R.A. Spratt's delightfully funny follow-up to her...
Author
Series
Friday Barnes mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The mystery continues in this middle-grade series about a genius girl detective who solves crimes at her exclusive boarding school"--
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When Mr. Green announces his diabolical plan to remarry, his children are horrified at the thought of losing their beloved Nanny Piggins.
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 4
Publisher
Random House Australia
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Derrick, Samantha and Michael should be in school. Instead they find themselves in NASA's space shuttle, which Nanny Piggins manages to accidentally launch, blasting them all into outer space. This time she has gone too far!
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When Mr. Green tries to send Derrick, Samantha, and Michael away to school, Nanny Piggins must thwart his plan"--
6) Big trouble
Author
Series
Friday Barnes mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
At her exclusive boarding school, can super sleuth and girl genius Friday Barnes crack the case of her missing mother, reign in a royal brat, and unmask the elusive master thief called the Pimpernel?
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 7
Publisher
Random House Australia
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When Mr Green rings from a tropical island, begging to be rescued, Nanny Piggins first instinct is to say no. However, a principle is at stake. No-one kidnaps her employer - at least not without written permission from her. So Nanny Piggins sets out to save the hapless tax lawyer, and to do so she must first dabble in a spot of bungy jumping, deceive immigration officials wearing a fake moustache and seduce the President with her most powerful weapon...
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 8
Publisher
Random House Australia
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A vote for Piggins is a vote for cake! In this riveting eighth instalment of Nanny Piggins' adventures, she sets out to thwart Mr Green's political ambitions by running for mayor herself. Her mission - to proudly fight for Liberty, Equality and Cake! Is democracy safe? Probably not. Will Nanny Piggins give everyone in the electorate diabetes from too much cake? Most likely. And along the way tremendous adventure abounds. Taking part in a diabolical...
Author
Series
Friday Barnes mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A genius girl detective discovers her ultra exclusive boarding school is a hotbed of crime, from missing homework and stolen lemon tarts to a mysterious yeti haunting the school swamp"--
10) Hamlet is not OK
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House Australia Pry Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Selby hates homework. She would rather watch TV - anything to escape the tedium of school, her parents' bookshop and small-town busybodies. So Selby didn't plan to read Hamlet. She certainly never planned to meet him. This novel transports Selby, and the reader, into the cold and crime-ridden play itself. Here she meets Hamlet: heavy with grief, the young prince is overthinking and over everything. Selby can relate. But unlike Hamlet, Selby isn't...
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 5
Publisher
Random House Australia
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Nanny Piggins discovers some startling truths about the ruthless Ringmaster, provides counselling to a Moldovan princess with pre-wedding jitters, inadvertently wins a Nobel Prize while impersonating her sister and catches up with her favourite 4-tonne friend, Esmeralda the forgetful elephant.
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 6
Publisher
Random House Australia
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Nanny Piggins gets in trouble with the law after some illicit tight rope walking, and is sentenced to 5000 hours community service. But she isn't the type of pig to take her punishment lying down, not when there are old people to rescue, pirates to impersonate and a great big bus to borrow.
13) No rules
Author
Series
Friday Barnes mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After Friday Barnes is deported to Switzerland, Highcrest Academy descends into chaos as all their teachers are fired as an epic prank, but Friday tries to find the prankster, prove the innocence of her nemesis Ian Wainscott, and save the school.
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three children and their hilariously subversive nanny pig embark on zany adventures in this award-winning middle grade debut illustrated by Caldecott winnter Dan Santat.
The three Green children are cared for by a nanny pig. Yes, a pig—a fabulously sassy and impeccably dressed pig, as a matter of fact! With her insatiable urge to eat chocolate (and feed chocolate to everyone she loves), her high-flying spirit, and her unending sense of...
The three Green children are cared for by a nanny pig. Yes, a pig—a fabulously sassy and impeccably dressed pig, as a matter of fact! With her insatiable urge to eat chocolate (and feed chocolate to everyone she loves), her high-flying spirit, and her unending sense of...
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Mr. Green, a stingy widower with three children he cannot be bothered with, decides to find a nanny for his children, he winds up hiring a glamorous ex-circus pig who knows nothing about children but a lot about chocolate.
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