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Jen Banyard Jen Banyard i(A128012 works by)
Born: Established: Perth, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Footprints Jen Banyard , 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 62 no. 2 2017; (p. 198-203)
1 1 y separately published work icon Riddle Gully Secrets Jen Banyard , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2016 9410866 2016 single work children's fiction children's

'Just when famed youth reporter Pollo di Nozi thinks she’ll never find another news story she stumbles upon not one, but two very surprising secrets. With hidden treasure, cunning crooks, mistaken identities and mysterious disappearances, unravelling them may be Pollo’s greatest challenge yet.' (Publication summary)

1 2 y separately published work icon Riddle Gully Runaway Jen Banyard , North Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2014 7465228 2014 single work children's fiction children's

'When junior reporter Pollo implicates the Mayor’s nephew in a spate of local robberies, she sets in train a series of mishaps that only she, her friend Will and her faithful sheep sidekick Shorn Connery can set to rights.' (Publication summary)

1 5 y separately published work icon Mystery at Riddle Gully Jen Banyard , North Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2012 Z1855554 2012 single work children's fiction children's adventure mystery 'Pollo di Nozi, reporter-in-training, has a nose for news. Strange things are happening in Riddle Gully and Pollo smells a major scoop. With Shorn Connery, her sheepish sidekick, Pollo is determined to track down the Graffiti Kid. But is Will, the new boy in town, conspiring with the pushy mayor and a strange Transylvanian to send her sniffing up the wrong trail?' (From the publisher's website.)
1 Through the Break Jen Banyard , 2010 single work short story children's
— Appears in: Worlds Next Door 2010; (p. 113-116)
1 4 y separately published work icon Spider Lies Jen Banyard , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2009 Z1634209 2009 single work children's fiction children's adventure

'Connor's little white lies have spawned a monster! It's big, it's hairy and it's lurking outside his bedroom window.

'Connor is home alone with his pet spider. Tricking Mum and Dad was easy and now he's got nobody to tell him to wash the dishes, nobody to make him go to school and nobody to turn to when his very existence is threatened by the biggest arachnid the world has ever seen.

'Can Connor save the planet? With just a bungling knitwit from NASA, the weirdest girl in school and a doddery old lady and her wheezing terrier to help him, Connor thinks the world is doomed!' (From the publisher's website.)

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