Books published by publisher Jacaranda

Heros Nomad has been written for the first year high school student who is a motivated reader. It is designed particularly for schools where English and SOSE/Humanities/ HSIE are integrated and/or taught by the same teacher. It is also highly suitable for wide reading, literature circles or novel study. The novel's overall theme is the nature of courage. While the novel can stand alone as teenage fiction, it has another dimension since it covers aspects of the SOSE/Humanities/ HSIE course namely, Sparta in ancient Greece. As part of the English Alive program, the novel has a wide range of worksheets from the English Alive Teacher Resource Book Pase 1 to accompany it, covering language, reading, thinking strategies and an overview of the novel as well as special worksheets that cover the SOSE/Humanities/HSIE aspects of the novel.

This is the third in the series, which contains The Great Gherkin Geography Quest and The Great Gherkin Explorer Quest. In this third novella, the Questers travel into the future at the entreaty of Gorki (Phoebe's future great-great grandchild) who arrives from the year 2150. Their quest is to save the Earth from the dismal future that awaits humanity if The Company, which controls everyone's life, cannot be stopped. The theme is strongly that of conservation and 'stepping lightly on the earth' today if such a future is to be avoided. Serious though the subject matter may be, it is presented with the Questers' trademark ingenuity and sense of fun as they confront the very unfriendly world of 2150. As part of the English Alive program, the novel has a number of accompanying worksheets, found in the English Alive Teacher Resource Book Phase 3, covering language, reading, thinking strategies, and an overview of the novel. The Questers have a new team member! Gorki is a visitor from the future, but it's not the sort of future you would want for your great-great-grandchildren. Human greed has all but destroyed Earth, and its inhabitants must live in climate-controlled domes, every facet of their lives strictly regulated by The Company. Can the Questers change the future so that the past will change, thus creating a new future?Just the sort of tricky puzzle that Phoebe, Cytronella, Freda, Wyungara, Wheels and Kylie love! With Gorki on board SPASM, they're off to 2150 to talk funny and battle with Ankops, Porcs and Kroops to save Earth for us all.Oh, and Kylie falls in love!

Code Name Sara Gray, the eagerly anticipated sequel to Sleeper, continues the story of 16-year-old Sara Gray, an unwilling secret agent. As a child, Sara was a member of a project known as HAMELIN, which secretly trained her to commit espionage on its behalf. After escaping their clutches in India, she has made it as far as the seaside paradise of Acapulco, where she thinks she is safe.When she is approached by a man asking for help to locate his missing daughter, Sara finds herself pulled back into the life of a spy. Travelling from fast-paced Mexico City to the jungles of Guatemala and the shadowy island of Cuba, she uncovers more than she bargains for - not only about the true reason for the girl's disappearance, but also about her own childhood.All the while, she is being hunted by a fellow operative, who will stop at nothing to complete his mission... Code Name Sara Gray is suitable for whole class study or as part of a wide reading program such as a literature circle. Written for third or fourth year high school students who are motivated readers, the many themes of the novel include identity, loss and the ethics of medical research. The novel is supported by five worksheets in the English Alive Teacher Resource Book Phase 4 that focus on language, reading, thinking and SOSE/Humanities/HSIE. There is also an MI/Bloom's Taxonomy matrix, with many additional activities in the appendices.

The Unclaimed has been written for the first year high school student who is a motivated reader. It is highly suitable for wide reading, literature circles or novel study. It is in the mystery genre and is written in the present tense to capture a sense of immediacy and maximise reader involvement in the narrative. The themes in the novel are identity and belonging, family, personal growth and of course, good versus evil. As part of the English Alive program, the novel has a number of accompanying worksheets, found in the English Alive Teacher Resource Book Phase 1, covering language, reading, thinking strategies, and an overview of the novel.