The Mousehole Cat

The Mousehole Cat

Author: Antonia Barber

Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780689808371

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When the Great Storm-Cat threatens the small English village of Mousehole, only an old fisherman's cat can soothe its fierceness during a dangerous sea venture.


Picklewitch & Jack and the Cuckoo Cousin

Picklewitch & Jack and the Cuckoo Cousin

Author: Claire Barker

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2019-09-03

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0571335217

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NOBODYtells ME what to do BECUZ.I DUZ what I LIKESand I LIKES what I DUZOH YES!Jack's new best friend Picklewitch is still causing marvellous mischief at St Immaculate's School for the Gifted.When she receives a letter from her cousin Archie Cuckoo, telling her he's coming to stay, Jack worries that she'll lose interest in him. But this new cousin turns out to be unexpectedly nice, and it's Picklewitch whose nose is put out of joint when Archie and Jack get along really well.But Archie is not all he seems, and soon both Picklewitch and Jack realise there are sinister plans afoot!


The Cornish Overseas

The Cornish Overseas

Author: Philip Payton

Publisher: University of Exeter Press

Published: 2020-02-17

Total Pages: 773

ISBN-13: 1905816138

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In this fully revised and up-dated edition of The Cornish Overseas, Philip Payton draws upon almost two decades of additional research undertaken by historians the world over since the first paperback version of this book was published in 2005. Now published by University of Exeter Press, this edition of Philip Payton’s classic history of Cornwall’s ‘great emigration’ takes account of numerous new sources to present a comprehensive, definitive picture of the Cornish diaspora. The Cornish Overseas begins by identifying some of the classic themes of Cornish emigration history, including Cornwall’s ‘emigration culture’ and ‘emigration trade’, and goes on to sketch early Cornish settlement in North America and Australia. The book then examines in detail the upsurge in Cornish emigration after 1815, showing how Cornwall became swiftly one of the great emigration regions of Europe. Discoveries of silver, copper and gold drew Cornish miners to Latin America, while Cornish agriculturalists were attracted to the United States and Canada. The discoveries of copper in South Australia and in Michigan during the 1840s offered new destinations for the emigrant Cornish, as did the Californian gold rush in 1849 and the Victorian gold rush in Australia in 1851. The crash of copper-mining in Cornwall in 1866 sped further waves of emigrants to countries as disparate as New Zealand and South Africa. In each of these places the Cornish remained distinctive as ‘Cousin Jacks’ and ‘Cousin Jennys’, establishing their own communities and making important contributions to the social, political and economic development of the new worlds. By 1914, however, Cornwall was no longer the international centre of mining expertise, the mantle having passed to America, Australia and South Africa, and Cornish emigration had dwindled as a result. Nonetheless, the Cornish at home and abroad remained aware of their global transnational identity, an identity that has been revitalised in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. DOI: https://doi.org/10.47788/KILX2994


Picklewitch and Jack

Picklewitch and Jack

Author: Claire Barker

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2018-09-13

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0571335195

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Picklewitch is, quite literally, out of her tree. She has a nose for naughtiness, a taste for trouble and a weakness for cake. And unluckily for brainbox Jack - winner of the 'Most Sensible Boy in School' for the third year running - she's about to choose him as her new best friend . . .


Jack of Clubs

Jack of Clubs

Author: Barbara Metzger

Publisher: Untreed Reads

Published: 2011-06-24

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1611871220

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Years ago, Captain Jack Endicott's half-sister vanished after a carriage accident. He now sets out to honor his father's dying wish and find her. Jack plans to open a lavish gaming parlor and hire only beautiful ladies to deal cards, possibly finding his sister. All he needs is a little luck. Instead he finds prim schoolteacher Allie Silver, who needs a guardian for one of her most precocious pupils. With such an unlikely duo, all bets are off in a wild game of romance.


Jack's House

Jack's House

Author: Karen Magnuson Beil

Publisher: Holiday House

Published: 2021-09-14

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 0823450120

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Huge bulldozers, roaring cement mixers, and a super adorable pup make this the perfect board book for construction-obsessed toddlers. Kids who love big, noisy machines can watch step-by-step as cute pup Jack builds a home by driving a bulldozer, operating a cement mixer, and using a forklift. Perfect for fans of Paw Patrol, toddlers will enjoy watching Jack build walls, frame windows, and nail down a roof. Adorable illustrations by award-winner Mike Wohnoutka of a construction pup with a tool belt are sure to engage even the youngest dog-lover. Big, bold trucks fill the pages in Jack's House, a simplified take on the classic nursery rhyme, "This Is the House that Jack Built."


Deep Girls

Deep Girls

Author: Lori Weber

Publisher: Dancing Cat Books

Published: 2019-04

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781770865310

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Short stories about girls and young women who, approaching adulthood, see their parents for the complex, flawed and vulnerable people they are.