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'Eleven-year-old Jonquil (known as Quil) Medway is a girl with more than an unusual name. Quil's parents died in a car accident when she was a baby and she now goes to boarding school, but spends her holidays with an aunt - or at camp, which is where Quil is heading when she decides to get off early at a train stop called Hooper's Bend.
'It is there that Quil meets Pirate, a chunky little white dog with black spots who immediately adopts her and Bailey, a crabby older lady who has gone to Hooper's Bend to check out the shop that has been left to her by an uncle.
'There is something magical about the shop at Hooper's Bend though, and once it casts its spell on Quil and Bailey they are drawn together in an unlikely friendship and their fight to save the shop from developers.' (Publication Summary)
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Other Formats
- Also dyslexic edition
- Also braille.
- Also large print.
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Quiet Magic
Fay Helfenbaum
(interviewer),
2017
single work
interview
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , May vol. 96 no. 4 2017; (p. 16)'Emily Rodda's latest novel the Shop at Hooper's Bend is a return to the authors earlier books, where the magic is 'about following your instincts rather than fantasy realms.' (Introduction)
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Quiet Magic
Fay Helfenbaum
(interviewer),
2017
single work
interview
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , May vol. 96 no. 4 2017; (p. 16)'Emily Rodda's latest novel the Shop at Hooper's Bend is a return to the authors earlier books, where the magic is 'about following your instincts rather than fantasy realms.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2018 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Children's Book Award
- 2018 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Children's Novel
- 2018 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards — Eight to 10 Years
- 2018 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Younger Readers
- 2018 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Younger Readers