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  • Published: 2 June 2020
  • ISBN: 9781760891039
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $16.99

Alice-Miranda in the Outback

Alice-Miranda 19




A dusty desert adventure beckons!

Alice-Miranda and her friends are off to the Australian Outback! They’re going to help an old family friend who’s found himself short staffed during cattle mustering season. The landscape is like nothing else – wide open and dusty red as far as the eye can see. It’s also full of quirky characters, like eccentric opal miner Sprocket McGinty and the enigmatic Taipan Dan.

As the gang settles in at Hope Springs Station, mysteries start piling up. A strange map is discovered indicating treasure beneath the paddocks, a young girl is missing and there are unexplained water shortages. Can Alice-Miranda get to the bottom of this desert dilemma?

  • Published: 2 June 2020
  • ISBN: 9781760891039
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $16.99

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About the author

Jacqueline Harvey

Jacqueline Harvey worked in schools for many years but has had a passion for storytelling since she was a child.

She is the author of the popular Alice-Miranda, Clementine Rose, Kensy and Max and Willa and Woof series, which have sold almost two million copies in Australia alone. In 2022, she released a picture book, That Cat, illustrated by one of her former students, Kate Isobel Scott. Jacqueline's books have received numerous shortlistings and awards while her picture book, The Sound of the Sea, was a CBCA Honour Book.

Jacqueline speaks to thousands of young people at schools and festivals around the world, and says the characters in her books are often made up of the best bits of children she’s met over the years. While she is not a twin, like Kensy and Max she does have excellent powers of observation and has always thought she’d make a great spy.

Jacqueline lives between Sydney, Australia, and Queenstown, New Zealand, and is currently working on more Willa and Woof adventures, several picture book projects and an exciting new middle-grade story.

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Praise for Alice-Miranda in the Outback

Once again Jacqueline Harvey has produced an adventure for Alice-Miranda which will both excite and fascinate her legion devoted fans . . . For children, many of whom may never experience the unique nature of the outback, this will be a marvellous virtual trip.

Sue Warren, Just So Stories

Jacqueline Harvey has once again delivered an entertaining and exciting read full of mystery and dangerous situations.

Kathryn Beilby, ReadPlus

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