Mary Grant Bruce: 28 books

A mystery story written for older girls. It tells the story of the vacation job of a young teacher who has had a breakdown.

A small child is left an orphan in grim circumstances. She is given a home by a solitary man and they gradually become a family. Jo's happiness is threatened by the people from whom she was rescued and the story evolves as they try to evade the past. Set in rural Victoria and Tasmania in Australia.

Hugh is nine years old and things are not going very well for him. His mother died when he was just six, and his father has not made a success of his orchard, and is broke. Then a miracle happens! A circus comes to stay over at Hugh’s farm, and he makes friends with lots of the performers...

Told by Peter is the story of a boy on a property in New South Wales, and his efforts to catch “crooks” who are trying to harm a friend of his.

This is the sequel to “Told By Peter”. It describes a fishing trip in North Queensland, and a visit to an island similar to Dunk Island. Rumours of impending war and suspicious Japanese boats are also in the plot.

“Do the beastly old map yourself, if you want it. I shan't, anyhow!” “Wilfred!” “Aw, Wil-fred!” The boy at the end of the schoolroom table, red-haired, snub-nosed and defiant, mimicked the protesting tone. “I've done it once, and I'm blessed if I do it again.” “No...

Norah, Jim and Wally have to grow up, but that is always the order of things. Growing up brings its own attractions, to say nothing of its own romances. One of the best books in the Billabong series, Billabong's Daughter delves a lot more into the emotions of Jim, Norah and Wally than previous...

It is 1915. Jim Linton and Wally Meadows, half a world away from Australia and Billabong, are serving in the British Army. During their initiation into the horrors of trench warfare in France, they experience the enemy’s deadly new weapon: poison gas. They both spend their convalescence in the green...

The first quarter of the book is taken up with station life. But two topics overshadow everyone’s thoughts: the drought, and the war in Europe. Wally and Jim are desperate to go as well. A fortuitous inheritance and the decision is made that they will all go–Jim and Wally, so they can sign up there, and Norah so she’s not left on her own.

Norah and Wally—now Mr. and Mrs. Meadows—have celebrated their wedding at Billabong and are on their honeymoon, touring around the countryside. They arrive at a strange, hidden spot in the hills, which Norah christens, ‘Horseshoe Valley’. Here adventure comes. As they explore the rocks and...

Billabong homestead lay calm and peaceful in the slanting rays of the sum that crept down the western sky. The red roofs were half hidden in the surrounding trees—pine and box and mighty blue gums towering above the tenderer green of the orchard, and the wide-flung tendrils of the Virginia creeper...

In the case studies that make up the bulk of this book, middle and high school history teachers describe the decisions and plans and the problems and possibilities they encountered as they ratcheted up their instruction through the use of big ideas. Framing a teaching unit around a question such as...