Matty is fifteen and is leaving school in a few weeks' time. He wants to work with animals, and would like to get a job on a farm. But his parents say he's too young to leave home - he must stay in the town and get a job in ship-building, like his father. They also say he can't go on a camping holiday with his friends. And they say he can't keep his dog, Nelson, because Nelson barks all day and eats his father's shoes. But it is because of Nelson that Matty finds a new life ...

Matty Doolin

Literature & Fiction

Cookson, C.

Women's Fiction

Macmillan Education Australia Pty Ltd

Blue Baccy

While staying with his grandparents on the eastern coast of England in 1890, 16-year-old Eddie finds himself allied with his rather prickly and reputedly deaf grandmother in the struggle to free his sister and the household maid from a band of white slavers.

Mrs Flannagan's Trumpet

Romance

Historical

Her expensive convent education hadn?t changed Mary Ann Shaughnessy one little bit. Sure, she could come over all refined when she had to, but who?d want to talk ever so nice on a farm?But in other respects she was growing up fast. As Mary Ann began to learn about the feelings of adults, so could she see that the more they loved someone, the more they could hurt and be hurt. And it wasn?t just grown-ups who felt this way either. With something of a start, she realised that ? whenever she caught sight of Corny Boyle ? she could recognise those same feeling swelling up inside herself?

Love and Mary Ann

Contemporary

Little Brown Paperbacks (a&C)

The Devil and Mary Ann

When Mary Ann is sent from her native Tyneside to become a pupil at a high-class convent boarding school on the South Coast, the idea in her benefactorâ€™s mind was that she should be turned into a little lady. In this, the third story in the Mary Ann series, Mary Ann is seen again as that irrepressible child of Tyneside in all her cheeky delightfulness. As usual, however, despite the seemingly over-powering difficulties, everything is sorted out satisfactorily in the end.

A Grand Man

Warner

As has been said before, Mary Ann Shaughnessy is no ordinary child. She first won a place in the hearts of thousands of readers in A Grand Man, described by Alan Melville in a broadcast as âa quite enchanting novel, written by someone who obviously knows the mind of a child as well as she knows the mean back streets of Tyneside.â Mary Ann firmly believed that when her father took on the farm job she had largely contrived to find for him, he would be set for life. Away from the temptations of the town, doing the kind of work he was meant for, he must slowly but surely turn into the angelic being Mary Ann knew him to be. But Mary Ann did not count on the frailties of human nature nor the sheer contrariness of others, which destroyed all her well-laid plansâ¦ In this second novel of the Shaughnessy saga, Mary Ann returns in this delightful, warm-hearted and humorously observed story of life set in northern England.

The Lord and Mary Ann

Marriage and Mary Ann

Mary Ann is now engaged to be married and the wedding is to take place in a few week's time. But Mary Ann still manages to become involved in the knotty problems of those dear to her and sets out to solve them in her own inimitable manner.

Parson's Daughter; The Cultured Handmaiden; And, The Black Velvet Gown

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