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  • I Own the Racecourse!

    Patricia Wrightson, Kate Constable

    Paperback (Text Classics, Jan. 7, 2014)
    A tender novel about a boy with an intellectual disability who believes he has bought a racecourse from an old tramp for $3.00. His friends are horrified, but then things take an unexpected and magical turn.A wonderful book for opening up classroom or family discussion about disability and about the importance of friendship.
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  • The Sugar Gum Tree

    Patricia Wrightson, David Cox

    Paperback (Puffin Books, June 24, 1993)
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  • The Water Dragons

    Patricia Wrightson, David Cox

    Paperback (Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Sept. 1, 1999)
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  • The Princess Who Couldn't Laugh

    Patricia Wright Tucker

    Paperback (America Star Books, June 13, 2012)
    Princess Debra lived with her parents in beautiful Castleland. Princess Debra was very lovely. She loved her parents very much. They loved her dearly. Princess Debra smiled sweetly, hummed and sang as she went about her princess duties. But her parents had noticed she had never laughed. The king and queen decided to make a decree. It said that any young lad who could make their daughter laugh would win her hand in marriage. Will it be a prince or a shepherd lad that wins her hand in marriage? Read this fascinating story and find out the surprise ending.

  • The Feather Star

    Patricia Wrightson, Noela Young

    Hardcover (Harcourt Brace & World, June 15, 1963)
    Illustrated by Noela Young. Her first book published in the United States. The story of a young girl's heightened awareness of herself and others, set in a remote coastal district of Australia.

  • Down to Earth

    P. Wrightson

    Hardcover (Harcourt, Jan. 15, 1965)
    His name was Martin, and he claimed to be a visitor from another planet. Of course, even Cathy and George didn't believe him at first, but he did have an odd way of staring at you and then there was his habit of squeezing into very small places, his occasional green glow and they way he bounced.

  • A Little Fear

    Patricia Wrightson, Dj Ed Martinez

    Hardcover (Atheneum, Jan. 1, 1983)
    Fed up with being treated as a child at the Australian home for elderly citizens where she lives, strong-willed Mrs Tucker runs away - to live her own life in her own kind of home. But she and her dog, Hector, have unexpected company at their lonely cottage.

  • The Rocks of Honey

    Patricia Wrightson

    Hardcover (Angus and Robertson, March 15, 1960)
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  • I Own the Racecourse

    Patricia Wrightson

    (Puffin Books, Oct. 27, 1994)
    A mentally retarded boy thinks he has bought a race track for three dollars, and until a solution to the problem can be found, only the patience and understanding of his friends keep him from being hurt by the truth.

  • Rattler's Place

    Patricia Wrightson, Stig Wemyss

    Audio CD (Bolinda Audio, Jan. 30, 2004)
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  • A Little Fear

    Patricia Wrightson

    (NY: Puffin Book, 1983, Jan. 1, 1983)
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  • Little Fear

    Wrightson Patricia

    (Random House Trade, Oct. 1, 1986)
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