Martine Murray
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In the third fabulous Henrietta story, when Henrietta sets a trap for "something" under her bed, she finds a teeny tiny person with wings I'm Henrietta and there's a strange and ominous scuffling noise under my bed. I can tell it's not a crocodile and I'm sure it's not a rhino and it absolutely can't be a monster because monsters lurk in dark misty lakes, not under beds. So who could it be? One thing I do know is it's time to make some discoveries.
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Four charming and hilarious full-color hard-to-find stories together for the first time in one big book, whimsically illustrated and full of life.
Meet Henrietta P. Hoppenbeek the First - she's one of a kind.
"Hello everybody, it's me, Henrietta. I have a baby brother, two white mice, a chocolate-coloured dog, a woolly mammoth, two long green socks with toes, one pickle-eating best friend, a bathtub for sailing in, and definitely a huge HUGE...
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Hello everybody, it's me. Henrietta the Great Go-Getter, and I'm having a big think. Right now I'm thinking I'd like a baby sister, so I can dress her up in different sorts of hats. But Mum says we'll have to wait and see. I'm terrible at waiting. Meanwhile, I'm an explorer of life, and that includes trees, bugs, animals and all mysteries. I'm going to school for the very first time, which means I might have to go as a spy so that I can have a secret...
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Funky, charming, and full of adventure, the inimitable Henrietta is determined to help a sad friend Hello everybody out there in the whirly old world. It's me Henrietta. There's something going on, and it isn't even Christmas. It's a DILEMMA. The Rietta is sad because it's lost. And we absolutely have to find the Rietta a home because the sadder the Rietta becomes the more its spots fade. At bathtime, the very imaginative...
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A beautiful novel that captures the aching of a teenager ready to heal.
It's dawn, on an empty road in the countryside. Empty, except for the girl in the long, red evening gown, standing next to a bicycle, and looking back at the home she's about to leave. Mannie's ready to start a new life and forget the terrible things that have happened here, but there are questions that need to be answered before she can let go. Questions about her elegant but...
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A big-hearted story of a family filled with secrets, and the ways they grow up-and apart-over the course of a single, life-altering summer.
In a small Australian country town during one long, hot summer, the Bloom family is beginning to unravel. Martha is straining against the confines of her life, lost in regret for what might have been, when an old flame shows up. In turn, her husband Mike becomes frustrated with his increasingly distant wife....