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Jacqueline Harvey Jacqueline Harvey i(A80915 works by)
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BiographyHistory

From 2001 to 2012, Jacqueline Harvey worked at Abbotsleigh School, Sydney. She retired as deputy head of the Junior School in late 2012 in order to pursue writing on a full-time basis.

Harvey began publishing for children in the early 2000s, with the Code Name series: Code Name Mr Right, Code Name Unwanted, and Code Name Rescue. Her 2005 picture book The Sound of the Sea was an honour book in the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Awards in 2006.

In 2010, she began publishing the highly successful Alice-Miranda series of chapter books: they regularly appear on the honour lists and shortlists of children's choice awards, and have been shortlisted for such awards as the Australian Book Industry Awards and the Davitt Awards. In 2012, while still publishing the Alice-Miranda series, she began the Clementine Rose series.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Alice-Miranda in the Outback Melbourne : Puffin , 2020 19546354 2020 single work children's fiction children's

'Alice-Miranda and her friends are off to the Australian Outback! They're going to help an old family friend who's found himself short staffed during cattle mustering season. The landscape is like nothing else - wide open and dusty red as far as the eye can see. It's also full of quirky characters, like eccentric opal miner Sprocket McGinty and the enigmatic Taipan Dan.

'As the gang settles in at Hope Springs Station, mysteries start piling up. A strange map is discovered indicating treasure beneath the paddocks, a young girl is missing and there are unexplained water shortages. Can Alice-Miranda get to the bottom of this desert dilemma?' (Publication summary)

2021 longlisted Davitt Award Best Children's Novel
2021 shortlisted REAL Awards Fiction for Younger Readers
y separately published work icon Freefall Melbourne : Puffin , 2020 18609676 2020 single work children's fiction children's

'Back at Alexandria, with their friend Curtis Pepper visiting, Kensy and Max are enjoying the school break. Especially when Granny Cordelia surprises them with a trip to New York! It's meant to be a family vacation, but the twins soon realise there's more to this holiday than meets the eye.

'The chase to capture Dash Chalmers is on and when there's another dangerous criminal on the loose, the twins find themselves embroiled in a most unusual case. They'll need all their spy sensibilities, along with Curtis and his trusty spy backpack, to bring down the culprit.' (Publication summary)

2021 longlisted Davitt Award Best Children's Novel
y separately published work icon Out of Sight Melbourne : Puffin , 2019 17115950 2019 single work children's fiction children's

'Kensy and Max are gearing up for their first Pharos review, a rite of passage with no room for failure. But juggling studies and the spy life isn't without its complications. As the dust settles from their last mission, and family members find their place in the new world order, old tensions rise to the surface. There's also the school play to prepare for - in rather different ways for each twin. However, the play soon takes a back seat as missing journalists and stolen objects see Kensy and Max embarking on a hair-raising ride to the City of Lights. Will they make it before it's too late?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2021 shortlisted REAL Awards Fiction for Older Readers
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