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Jancy in Pursuit
Sydney
:
Jons Productions
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1950
Z831322
1950
single work
children's fiction
children's
According to Rachel Crawford's
Bonza Schooldays, 'In Jancy in Pursuit, Jancy and Rusty spend their Christmas holidays with Rusty's grandmother, rescue an author from a gang of kidnappers, and help clear a woman's deceased husband who was wrongly convicted of embezzlement'.
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Jancy Scores Again
Sydney
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Jons Productions
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1947
Z831325
1947
single work
children's fiction
children's
According to Rachel Crawford's Bonza Schooldays, 'Jancy's schooldays are continued in Jancy Scores Again, which mostly centres on the mysteries surrounding two new girls at Jancy's school. As with Bracken's previous Jancy title, Jancy Wins Through, the school provides a background for mystery and adventure plots. The two new girls who arouse interest at the school are Giralda Channing, a glamorous American teenager, and twelve-year-old Brigid O'Brien, a pianist prodigy. Giralda rouses Jancy's interest when she appears to go into hysterics when Brigid is playing, while Brigid and her Nurse seem to be hiding from someone.'
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Jancy Stands Alone
Sydney
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Jons Productions
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1940-1949
Z834640
1940-1949
single work
children's fiction
children's
Rachel Crawford at Bonza Schooldays writes: ''In Jancy Stands Alone, Jancy is now fifteen and spends an action-packed Christmas holidays with three spinster sisters. A girl is saved from her evil stepmother, missing family money and jewels are found and a difficult uncontrollable son reforms. Jancy finds romance with a teenage boy called Geoffrey'.
The publisher's blurb states: 'The setting for this new book is the South Coast of New South Wales, that the author knows so well and, like "Jancy Wins Through," "Jancy Scores Again" and "Jancy in Pursuit," deals with the lively adventures of this frank, reliable and courageous girl who has now grown into a lovely young lady of fifteen. We meet the quaint fascinating old ladies Miss Emmeline, Miss Euphemia and Miss Eulalie, the good-looking young Englishman, Godfrey, and his arrogant brother, Geoffrey, the big, shaggy artist, Jerry Bentham, who Anne Bracken presents with affectionate understanding in this well-written story'.
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Jancy Wins Through
Sydney
:
Jons Productions
,
1945
Z835555
1945
single work
children's fiction
children's
Rachel Crawford's Bonza Schooldays
states: 'Twelve-year-old Jancy is sent to live with a friend of her father's family, while she attends Miss Grey's School. Jancy's mother had suffered a nervous breakdown following the disappearance of her husband during the war. Jancy gets intro trouble when an older girl tells the school that Jancy's father was a deserter, and most of the girls avoid her. When Jancy's aunt accuses her of stealing a necklace, Jancy decides to run away.'
