Download or read book The Nanny Piggins Guide to Conquering Christmas written by R.A. Spratt and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watch out Santa, Nanny Piggins is coming to town this Christmas! This is not a survival guide to Christmas. This is a guide to conquering the Yuletide season! That’s right, it is time to take a stand – don’t suffer through another year of brussels sprouts, gift-wrapped socks and slobbery kisses from great aunts who forget to put their teeth in. Take control of your Christmas and put the happy back in your holiday, using the handy hints, games and inspiring stories within this book.
Download or read book Nanny Piggins and the Wicked Plan written by R. A. Spratt and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 award-winning debut is chock-full of surprising adventures for the feisty Nanny Piggins and the adorable children, from being blasted out of a cannon with an arrogant armadillo to dueling a Gypsy Queen over a pit of fire. Dan Santat is back again with his quirky and wonderfully charming illustrations that capture the fun and high-flying spirit of these hilarious stories.
Download or read book The Adventures of Nanny Piggins written by R. A. Spratt and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 fun, Nanny Piggins takes Derrick, Samantha, and Michael on a year of surprises, yummy treats, and adventures they'll never forget. It's no surprise that Booklist proclaimed, "Mary Poppins, move over--or get shoved out of the way." Nanny Piggins is a refreshing and dynamic addition to favorite classic nannies: Amelia Bedelia, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, and, of course, Mary Poppins. Read more books in the series: Nanny Piggins and the Wicked Plan and Nanny Piggins and the Runaway Lion.
Download or read book Nanny Piggins and the Race to Power written by R. A. Spratt and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2013 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nanny Piggins tries to thwart Mr. Green's political ambitions by running for mayor, an election that takes her from a diabolical fun run to setting the world pole vault record.
Download or read book Nanny Piggins and the Rival Ringmaster 5 written by R.A. Spratt and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In book five of her enthralling adventures, 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.
Download or read book Nanny Piggins And The Runaway Lion 3 written by R.A. Spratt and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A curly tale of revenge, rescue and jam-filled doughnuts. With a runaway lion loose in the neighbourhood, Derrick, Samantha and Michael feel scared. Nanny Piggins feels like a slice of cake. And Boris feels like that lion looks strangely familiar.In this third action-packed book of adventures, Nanny Piggins tames a lion and a lion tamer. She revolutionises the sport of ski jumping, introduces hot-pink leotards to the local Neighbourhood Watch, demonstrates trapeze skills on a moving bus, plays badminton with a wok and teaches Shakespeare a thing or two about how to write a play. All while thwarting Mr Green’s attempt to send her favourite children to Nicaragua (she does find it wearisome having to put him in his place constantly). And yet, somehow, she still finds time to bake lots and lots of cake.
Download or read book Nanny Piggins And The Accidental Blast Off 4 written by R.A. Spratt and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In space, no one can hear you oink! 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!In this thrilling fourth instalment of her adventures, Nanny Piggins wrestles with a crocodile, bungy jumps of the roof using the elastic from Mr Green's underpants, staples chicken wire over their chimney to keep out Santa, captures an apricot danish-loving jewel thief and rescues her brother, Boris, from an onslaught of professional wrestlers.
Download or read book Nanny Piggins written by R. A. Spratt and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2015-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never fear, Nanny Piggins is here! When Mr. Green calls 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 bungee jumping, deceive immigration officials wearing a fake mustache, and seduce the President with her most powerful weapon--the dance of the seven cakes.
Download or read book The Curiosities of Ale Beer written by John Bickerdyke and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Friday Barnes Girl Detective written by R. A. Spratt and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine if Sherlock Holmes was an eleven-year-old girl! When Friday Barnes, girl genius, solves a bank robbery, she uses the reward money to send herself to Highcrest Academy, the most exclusive boarding school in the country—and discovers it's a hotbed of crime! Soon she's investigating everything from disappearing homework to the terrifying Yeti haunting the school swamp. But the biggest mystery yet is Ian Wainscott, the handsomest (and most arrogant) boy in school who inexplicably hates her. Will the homework be found? Can they ever track down the Yeti? And why is Ian out to ruin her? With black-and-white art throughout, Friday Barnes, Girl Detective is the launch of an exciting new mystery series that "will keep readers laughing from start to finish." (Publishers Weekly)
Download or read book Nanny Piggins and the Pursuit of Justice written by R. A. Spratt and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nanny Piggins receives five thousand hours of community service as punishment for illicit tight rope walking but still finds time to engage in shenanigans with the Green children.
Download or read book Pike County Mississippi 1798 1876 written by Luke Ward Conerly and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Rules A Friday Barnes Mystery written by R. A. Spratt and published by . This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fourth book of the Friday Barnes Mystery series, can Friday Barnes prove Ian's innocence, find the Highcrest Academy prankster, and save her school? If it involves running, then probably no, but if not . . . Friday's on the case!
Download or read book Friday Barnes Under Suspicion written by R. A. Spratt and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A must-have series for middle-grade readers.” —Booklist Friday Barnes, girl detective, is... under arrest?! Getting arrested was the last thing Friday expected after solving the swamp-yeti mystery at her boarding school. But she better clear her name fast! She’s got new cases to investigate, like a scandalous quiche bake-off, a decades old mystery buried in her school’s backyard, and why the new boy, Christopher, is being so nice to her. More adventures and intrigue ensue in Friday Barnes, Under Suspicion, the second book in the illustrated Friday Barnes mystery series, starring a genius detective with the brains (and social skills) of Sherlock Holmes. Don’t miss Book 1, Friday Barnes, Girl Detective!
Download or read book Big Trouble A Friday Barnes Mystery written by R. A. Spratt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More mysteries abound in Book 3 of this middle-grade series about a genius girl detective who solves crimes at her boarding school.
Download or read book Friday Barnes 10 Undercover written by R.A. Spratt and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friday is not running away. Yes, she did get on a train to Norway without telling anyone where she was going – but she had to help Binky. He may or may not have been attacked by a polar bear. Now he’s facing court martial for dereliction of duty. Obviously, Friday had to drop everything and travel 3000 kilometres to solve the case. The fact that it’s easier to handle her feelings for Ian Wainscott if there’s a continent between them is just a coincidence. When Friday arrives in Oslo, there are so many mysteries to solve. Is someone trying to keep Binky and Princess Ingrid apart? How can a painting leave a museum when all the doors are sealed? And will Melanie persuade Friday to go to the royal ball without wearing a brown cardigan? If Friday survives her trip to the remote Global Seed Vault, we may find out.
Download or read book What Zola Did on Monday written by Melina Marchetta and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zola loves living on Boomerang Street with her mum and her nonna. Every day of the week is an adventure. But Zola has a problem. No matter how much she tries, she can't keep out of trouble! Collect all seven stories in the series – one for every day of the week.
