Books with author Jane Smith

Spectra is a thirteen-year-old aspiring ninja and wizard. She loves adventures, but unfortunately, she is grounded. That doesn’t stop her from sneaking out of the house. It’s October, and her small hometown of Ivv is enveloped in a persistent fog that is making everybody cranky. It is unbearable. Spectra decides to remove the fog, no matter the danger. She searches for the Magic Sled of Nir. Her quest leads to strange places beyond Fourier Woods. Filled with intrigue and insight, Spectra and the Magic Sled of Nir is a thrilling fantasy adventure that brings science to life.

John Harkness loves working and living on the Moon. But one day, that all changed with the arrival of a rare meteor storm that hits not only Armstrong City where he is currently assigned, but almost wipes out nearby Mining Shaft Six. With an automatic SOS coming from the devastated Shaft Six, Director of Operations Frederick Landry is forced by Military Command to abide by the Maritime and Space Code concerning SOS signals and send someone to check out the situation, though he insists he can't spare anybody because of damage and injuries at the City. With little evidence to indicate that anyone is left alive at Mining Shaft Six, John is assigned to check it out and begins a journey that will reveal a potential global crisis and change his life forever.

Tommy Bell, Bushranger Boy is a series featuring Tommy’s time travellingescapades that take him face-to-face with some of Australia’s most notoriousbushrangers.The hero of the series, Tommy Bell, lives in regional NSW in contemporarytimes but is able to travel back in time to the gold rush days by wearing an oldbushranger’s hat that he discovered on his grandfather’s farm.Each book brings Tommy and his friends up close and personal with one ofAustralia’s well known outlaws. With each adventure there is plenty of dangerand excitement: armed hold-ups, sieges, frauds, shoot-outs, police chases, jailtimeand much more.Each book cleverly incorporates a parallel story from Tommy’s twenty-firstcentury life that tests his friendships and develops his character.The Horse Thief - Tommy Bell is happy when the popular new kid at school wants him to join his gang. His new friend is trouble buthe’s not half as much trouble as the bushranger that Tommy meets when his magic hat takes him back to the goldrush days. Tommy finds himself in the middle of a horse robbery, a police chase and a prison escape!

Tommy Bell, Bushranger Boy is a series featuring Tommy’s time travellingescapades that take him face-to-face with some of Australia’s most notoriousbushrangers.The hero of the series, Tommy Bell, lives in regional NSW in contemporarytimes but is able to travel back in time to the gold rush days by wearing an oldbushranger’s hat that he discovered on his grandfather’s farm.Each book brings Tommy and his friends up close and personal with one ofAustralia’s well known outlaws. With each adventure there is plenty of dangerand excitement: armed hold-ups, sieges, frauds, shoot-outs, police chases, jailtimeand much more.Each book cleverly incorporates a parallel story from Tommy’s twenty-firstcentury life that tests his friendships and develops his character.Shoot-out at the Rock - Tommy Bell has been sent to work on his grandparents’ farm for the schoolholidays. He doesn’t want to go, but when he discovers an old bushranger’s hathidden in a cave, everything changes. Suddenly he is sent back to the gold rushdays and finds himself face-to-face with the bushranger Captain Thunderbolt!At first, the life of a bushranger seems full of thrills and adventure. But Tommysoon learns that it is full of danger as well…