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What protection do females have from the social culture moulding the humans they develop into? The fourteen sharply perceptive tales in A Feminine Perspective celebrate the quiet courage within each woman's heart.

In 1941, Darwin is bombed, and the war against the Germans and the Japanese gets alarmingly close. While those in the area are raising money for the war effort with backyard concerts, the kids on Bolton Road have their own ideas about how to help out. Notices around the town warn that loose talk kills. Are spies passing information to the enemies right under their noses? Mable convinces Nancy, Janet, Fred and Lennie that catching spies is the ...

What do you do when you desperately want a pet of your own but your parents put their foot down, insisting pets cost too much to feed and they're messy? Jeremy solves his dilemma by getting a secret pet, hatched from a very odd, large egg. His pet isn't messy and doesn't cost anything to feed. His is also a most unusually nice and helpful pet. Jeremy's very happy to have his new companion, although he's still not ready to tell his parents abo...

Twins Gert and Phil realise there's sure to be trouble when the Morris family moves in next door. After the twins rescue kittens that the Morris kids have tried to drown and then vandalise their backyard, the war is on! In retaliation, the Morris kids rub their dog down with shoe polish and then steal the canine. Only learning the truth of their background allows the twins to forge a truce...and offer to help out instead of counterattack.

When the fairy queen swaps her new baby for a mortal's new baby, her daughter Dewdrop feels sorry for the mortal family she watches all the time. She rescues and returns Willyum back to his human family. When the fairy queen discovers what she's done, she's so cross, she swaps Dewdrop's life with the mortal girl Rebecca's as punishment. But Dewdrop loves her new mortal family and all their adventures, and now Rebecca adores being a fairy. Ever...

Jane Smith is the unhappy, resentful, eleven-year-old daughter of a single parent. Her escape from the unpleasantness she considers her life is through another world. There, she's one of the four powerful Patrollers sworn to the service of the Princess in the Far Tower. Their quest: To choose the bravest warriors in all space and time to fight the Red Wizard. Jane's ordinary life improves as she makes friends. She's picked for the school play ...

An unsuccessful young man, John Scarlett, moves into a parallel universe in search of adventure. Unfortunately, he's lost his soul and memories to the ferry witch. Even more humiliating, he's tricked into becoming a sorcerer's apprentice by his ex-tomcat Quill. However, with the aid of a small girl who believes he's so stupid he has to be looked after, he might just manage to survive.

Dragons have arrived. One of them has eaten the district's cattle, which is not only a stomach-ache waiting to happen but is also against dragon law. The cowardly dragon hiding down by the creek is the only harmless dragon. Can fairy princess turned mortal Rebecca convince him to stand up to his bully brothers without getting both of them burned alive?

Fairy princess turned mortal, Rebecca discovers her horse Sally has unexpectedly given birth to a filly. Rebecca names the newborn Saturday. In the midst of joy, a monster tries to kill them. Protecting her horses isn't Rebecca's only problem. Hiding the fact that Saturday has the ability to speak the human language and is growing wings is becoming a big problem all its own.

Fairy princess turned mortal, Rebecca has a new cousin staying with her. Lianna and Prince Willdom are stolen by a troll while at the market. But Rebecca wants to know why, especially when she discovers that her cousin's loom was also stolen. Does the fact that Lianna is the finest weaver in the kingdom have anything to do with her kidnapping? And why was Prince Willdom taken with her? The Fairy Queen gives Rebecca a bracelet that lights up wh...

Once a fairy princess made mortal, Rebecca discovers treachery among the dwarves in the kingdom. In the race to reach the ogres who have imprisoned the missing royal heir, Lejon, Rebecca, her owl, dwarf George, and Billy the house goblin use dangerous underground streams.

When the fairy queen swaps her new baby for a mortal's new baby, her daughter Dewdrop feels sorry for the mortal family she watches all the time. She rescues and returns Willyum back to his human family. When the fairy queen discovers what she's done, she's so cross, she swaps Dewdrop's life with the mortal girl Rebecca's as punishment. But Dewdrop loves her new mortal family and all their adventures, and now Rebecca adores being a fairy. Ever...

Rebecca--once upon a time a fairy princess--has a new teacher: Sneaky, meanie Miss Baroom. The new teacher is actually a powerful and wicked witch who prowls the district after dark riding a bewitched human. Rebecca sets out to discover how a powerful wicked witch got into their quiet district. With the help of the house goblins and her owl, Rebecca must stop Miss Baroom before dreadful things happen to everyone.

Sherry is a single-parent streetwise kid, upset at being dumped on her father, his pregnant second wife and her twin half-brothers for the holidays. Sherry's continued efforts to try to be helpful end as disasters. Then her stepmother suddenly goes into labour at home, and Sherry is the only one around to help her...

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Fourteen-year-old Kate isn't clear who she is or how she had ended up as an assistant teacher in a stuffy old bush school. Why is she suddenly living in a world that resembles one huge antique shop? How can she escape this unpleasant world she finds herself in and return home?

Jenny has an older brother and a younger sister--and a father in the hospital. Feeling like she's always in the way or even invisible to those around her, she's sure nobody cares about her at all. Even as she seeks attention in all the wrong ways, can Jenny's family prove to her she's not only a vital part of them but unconditionally loved as well?

Three wizards have moved into Rebecca's district with nasty hobgoblins in tow. Why are they so helpful, giving free bags of potatoes to everyone? Rebecca finds out the tainted potatoes keep all that eat them under the spell of the wizards. Rebecca and the house goblins struggle to destroy the potatoes, but the wizards are busy planting more of the horror harvest throughout the districts. Nearly everyone is now under their control. Rebecca is h...

James Tadworthy lives in a post-holocaust society in which there are no wars, no crime, no pollution, no disease, and no work. Everyone seemingly lives in perfect harmony with their tamed environment. Additionally, all knowledge is controlled by the Shepherds, a group that selflessly dedicates their lives to humanity's welfare and best interests. But when James finds out the Shepherds' shocking and closely-guarded secret, he discovers that ben...

Mike, Alinea and their alien pet, Beeper, are expected to stay out of trouble during their holiday on an archaeological dig in Central Australia. While in the cave of the dreaming, they inadvertently trigger a time gate that sends them to another universe else entirely! To get back to the dig site, they'll have to escape an intergalactic lost property office until claimed, help their new friends, and avoid being eaten by the deadly Kloog raidi...