R. A Spratt
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 1
Formats
Description
When Mr. Green, a stingy widower with three children he cannot be bothered with, decides to find a nanny for his children, he winds up hiring a glamorous ex-circus pig who knows nothing about children but a lot about chocolate.
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 3
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Description
"When Mr. Green tries to send Derrick, Samantha, and Michael away to school, Nanny Piggins must thwart his plan"--
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Description
When Mr. Green announces his diabolical plan to remarry, his children are horrified at the thought of losing their beloved Nanny Piggins.
4) Big trouble
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
vi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
At her exclusive boarding school, can super sleuth and girl genius Friday Barnes crack the case of her missing mother, rein in a royal brat, and unmask the elusive master thief called the Pimpernel?
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 5
Publisher
Random House Australia
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
281 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
In book five of her enthralling adventures, Nanny Piggins discovers some startling truths about the ruthless Ringmaster, provides counselling to a Molavadinian princess with pre-wedding jitters, inadvertently wins a Nobel Prize while impersonating her sister and catches up with her favourite 4-tonne friend, Esmeralda the forgetful elephant.
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 6
Publisher
Random House Australia
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
Nanny Piggins gets in trouble with the law after some illicit tight rope walking, and is sentenced to 5000 hours community service. But she isn't the type of pig to take her punishment lying down, not when there are old people to rescue, pirates to impersonate and a great big bus to borrow.
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2012, ©2011.
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Derrick, Samantha and Michael should be in school. Instead they find themselves in NASA's space shuttle, which Nanny Piggins manages to accidentally launch, blasting them all into outer space. This time she has gone too far!
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 7
Publisher
Random House Australia
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
276 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
Never fear, Nanny Piggins is here! When Mr Green rings from a tropical island, begging to be rescued, Nanny Piggins first instinct is to say no. However, a principle is at stake. No-one kidnaps her employer--at least not without written permission from her. So Nanny Piggins sets out to save the hapless tax lawyer, and to do so she must first dabble in a spot of bungy jumping, deceive immigration officials wearing a fake moustache and seduce the President...
Author
Series
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
279 pages, 17 unnumbered pages : illustratins ; 20 cm.
Description
Getting arrested was the last thing Friday expected after solving the swamp-yeti mystery at her boarding school. But she better clear her name fast! She's got new cases to investigate, like a scandalous quiche bake-off, a decades old mystery buried in her school's backyard, and why the new boy, Christopher, is being so nice to her.
10) No Rules
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Description
"A must-have series for middle-grade readers." -Booklist
No Rules, the fourth book of R.A. Spratt's hilarious Friday Barnes Mystery series, brings even more trouble for this genius girl detective.
Friday Barnes has been deported to Switzerland . . . but we need her back!
With their go-to detective gone, Highcrest Academy has descended into chaos. Someone's fired all the teachers as an epic prank, and suspicion falls on Ian Wainscott, Friday's...
11) Girl Detective
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Series
Description
"A must-have series for middle-grade readers." -Booklist
Imagine if Sherlock Holmes was an eleven-year-old girl!
When Friday Barnes, girl genius, solves a bank robbery, she uses the reward money to send herself to Highcrest Academy, the most exclusive boarding school in the country-and discovers it's a hotbed of crime!
Soon she's investigating everything from disappearing homework to the terrifying Yeti haunting the school swamp. But the biggest...
12) Hamlet is not ok
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"Selby hates homework. She would rather watch TV--anything to escape the tedium of school, her parents' bookshop and small-town busybodies. So Selby didn't plan to read Hamlet. She certainly never planned to meet him. This novel transports Selby, and thereader, into the cold and crime-ridden play itself. Here she meets Hamlet--heavy with grief, the young prince is overthinking and over everything. Selby can relate. But unlike Hamlet, Selby isn't afraid...
Author
Series
Friday Barnes mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
255 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"A genius girl detective discovers her ultra exclusive boarding school is a hotbed of crime, from missing homework and stolen lemon tarts to a mysterious yeti haunting the school swamp"--