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Doshinsha Doshinsha i(A125268 works by) (Organisation) assertion (a.k.a. Dōshinsha; 童心社)
Born: Established: 4 Mar 1957
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Japan,
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East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia, ;
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2 y separately published work icon Danger Christine Harris , Malvern : Omnibus Books , 2005 Z1277303 2005 single work children's fiction children's mystery Jessie must find a bomb in a crowded train station before it explodes.
2 y separately published work icon The Nightmare Vortex Deborah Abela , Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2003 Z1143498 2003 single work children's fiction children's adventure 'On the outside Max Remy may look like every other eleven-year-old, but don't be fooled. Now official members of Spy Force, Max and her best friend, Linden, are invited to the Annual Spy Awards, hidden on a secret island deep within a medieval fortress. But then the evil Mr. Blue intercepts Spy Force intelligence and discovers the location of the top-secret ceremony, and he plots to bring a dormant volcano to life. Max and Linden have only hours to save the spy agency — and the world. Are they up to the task?'
(Source: Good Reads website)
3 y separately published work icon The Rainbow Wand Emily Rodda , Sydney : ABC Books , 2006 Z1430035 2006 single work children's fiction children's When a little girl from the human world becomes lost in the magical Realm, Jessie's only hope of finding her is by using the precious Rainbow Wand which belongs to a brilliant but reclusive magician.
2 y separately published work icon The Peskie Spell Emily Rodda , Sydney : ABC Books , 2006 Z1429993 2006 single work children's fiction children's Something awful is happening in the Realm - a plague of small, flying creatures with mischievous pointed faces, called Peskies, are eating away all the magic. Together with Maybelle, Giff and Patrice, Jessie sets off on the Ribbon Road to Dally Glade to find the five petalled daisy for the Peskie spell. But once they return safely with the flower something goes wrong, the spell doesn't work and it is finally Jessie who unravels the spell.
2 y separately published work icon The Water Sprites Emily Rodda , Sydney : ABC Books , 2005 Z1207411 2005 single work children's fiction children's During her most recent visit to the Fairy Realm, Jessie inadvertently allows a baby fairy to be captured by water sprites who want to hold the child captive until their missing moonstone is returned.
2 1 y separately published work icon Spyforce Revealed Deborah Abela , Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2002 Z992088 2002 single work children's fiction children's adventure

'Discover a top-secret world of Matter Transporters, Invisible Jets and Spyforce in the first two books about Australia's favourite superspy!

'The Easter holidays are coming up and Max can't wait to go back to the farm to see Ben, Eleanor, Francis and Linden and escape a life she is convinced is more cursed than anyone she knows. She is even more excited to receive an invitation to attend a meeting at Spyforce HQ in London and Max and Linden board one of Spyforce's invisible super fast jets to make the trip.

'On reaching Spyforce headquarters they meet an extremely interesting collection of characters. But nothing shocks Max and Linden more than finding out that Alex Crane is real! Mr Blue is once again up to no good. Spyforce have come across information that Blue has invented a concoction that, when eaten, controls minds.

'Max and Linden, along with Ella and Alex and the team at Spyforce, must once again foil the evil work of Mr Blue before he creates an army of kids under his control. ' (Publication summary)
2 4 y separately published work icon In Search of the Time and Space Machine Deborah Abela , Milsons Point : Random House , 2002 Z956084 2002 single work children's fiction children's adventure

'As Max and Linden were being lowered into a giant vat of green jelly, Max wondered whether her life would have been better if she'd never heard of the stupid Time and Space Machine. She had always wanted to be a Superspy but now that she was in the middle of a dangerous mission and was about to be turned into a giant dessert, she wasn't sure this was the life for her. ' (Publication summary)
6 y separately published work icon The Unicorn Mary-Anne Dickinson , Sydney : Bantam Books , 1996 Z1207382 1996 single work children's fiction children's When wicked Queen Valda of the Outlands threatens both the Fairy Realm and the human world, Jessie seeks the help of the secretive and powerful unicorns.
2 y separately published work icon The Magic Key Mary-Anne Dickinson , Sydney : Bantam Books , 1995 Z1207376 1995 single work children's fiction children's On her fifth journey to the magical Fairy Realm, this time on her birthday, Jessie travels all the way to the end of the rainbow and tries to help her new friends, the rainbow fairies.
2 2 y separately published work icon The Star Cloak Emily Rodda , Sydney : ABC Books , 2005 Z1207101 2005 single work children's fiction children's When Giff the elf comes asking for Jessie's help, she returns to the Realm on a quest to have the fairies mend the Star Cloak in time for Wish Night.
3 y separately published work icon The Third Wish Mary-Anne Dickinson , Sydney : Bantam Books , 1995 Z1207379 1995 single work children's fiction children's When her Grandmother's beloved home is threatened by fire, Jessie returns to the magical world of the Realm and visits the mermaids of Under-Sea to search for a wish-stone.
2 y separately published work icon The Last Fairy-Apple Tree Mary-Anne Dickinson , Sydney : Bantam Books , 1995 Z1207368 1995 single work children's fiction children's

The gnomes of Hidden Valley are in trouble, and not even the fairy Queen's magic can help them. Jessie travels back to the magical world of the Realm to try to discover what has gone wrong in the Hidden Valley where the fairy-apples grow.
5 1 y separately published work icon The Charm Bracelet Mary-Anne Dickinson , Sydney : Bantam Books , 1994 Z960313 1994 single work children's fiction children's When Jessie searches for her ill Grandmother's missing charm bracelet, she is led to a realm where fairies, elves, tiny horses and all kinds of magical beings live.
2 1 y separately published work icon The Flower Fairies Mary-Anne Dickinson , Sydney : Bantam Books , 1994 Z960318 1994 single work children's fiction children's Jessie returns to the magical world where her Grandmother was born, where she deals with some griffins, dances with fairies, and borrows something to help her dance in her school concert.
1 y separately published work icon Kangarū no poketto Makiko Ikeda , Shogo Natsume (illustrator), Tokyo : Doshinsha , 2002 Z1859178 2002 single work picture book children's A Japanese re-telling of the Aboriginal legend about how the kangaroo got her pouch.
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