Penny Matthews

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1992
  • Latest Book:
    March 2019
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Multi-Author Series List

Our Australian Girl

3 - Meet Ruby (Feb-2013)
4 - Ruby and the Country Cousins (May-2013)
5 - Ruby of Kettle Farm (Oct-2013)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Amazing And Bizarre

  • Hair-Raising

    A collection of ten eerie tales includes the stories of a girl's best friend who hides a monstrous appetite for human beings, and a boy whose perfect features make him decide to get rid of his disfigured little sister...

  • Pudding and Chips

    Pudding is a cranky goose. She is as fierce as a tiger and as prickly as barbed wire. And she s as noisy as a street full of fire engines. Nobody tells Pudding what to do not even Chips the sheepdog. Things are never quiet on Annie s farm
    But o...

  • A Girl Like Me

    Their lives couldn't be more different, but Emmie can't help liking Bertha Schippan. She's funny and knowing and wild, and she distracts Emmie from the monotony of farm life in their tiny, isolated community. But, as Emmie soon discovers, Bertha has ...

  • Meet Nellie

    It's 1849 . . . and Nellie O'Neill is arriving in South Australia on a ship bringing orphan girls from Irish workhouses. Nellie and her best friend, Mary, have left the famine in Ireland far behind, and are full of hopes and dreams for the future. N...

  • Our Australian Girl

  • Nellie And Secret The Letter

    It's 1849 . . . and Nellie is starting her new life as a kitchen maid in a grand Adelaide house with her best friend, Mary. But Nellie's desire to live out her dreams soon leads to a battle with thespiteful cook Bessie Rudge Can Nellie keep her temp...

  • Nellie's Quest

    It's 1850 and Nellie's best friend, Mary, is gravely ill. To provide Mary with the care she needs, Nellie must break a promise and go on a quest to find the Thompson family. But will they be able to help? And who will Nellie turn to when her own life...

  • Nellie's Greatest Wish

    It's 1850 . . . and Nellie is returning to Adelaide after searching for the Thompson family at the Burra. She's keen to get back to her best friend, Mary, who is ill in hospital. But she is in for a terrible shock . . . Even Nellie begins to feel tha...



  • Meet Ruby

    Our Australian Girl - 3

    It's 1930 . . . and Ruby Quinlan lives in a big house in Adelaide with her parents and her fox terrier, Baxter. As she gets ready for her 12th birthday party, Ruby has never been happier. But the world she knows is collapsing, and people everywhere a...

  • Ruby and the Country Cousins

    Our Australian Girl - 4

    It's 1931 . . . and Ruby and her family have lost everything in the Great Depression. Leaving behind her dad, her school friends, and everything she knows, Ruby must move to Kettle Farm to stay with her cousins. Life in the country is new and strange...

  • School Days for Ruby

    It's 1931 . . .and Ruby is settling into life at her school in the country. But when a desperately poor family moves to the area, no one wants to be friends with them. Ruby will have to choose sides, and she has already made one enemy at school - Dor...

  • Ruby of Kettle Farm

    Our Australian Girl - 5

    It's 1931 . . . and Kettle Farm is starting to feel like home, but Ruby is still desperately worried about her dad. He hasn't written for weeks, and nobody knows where he is. Will Dad ever come back to them? When nobody will give Ruby any answers, sh...

  • Do You Dare? Eureka Boys

  • Eureka Boys

  • 1854: Eureka Boys

    Do you dare join a rebellion? Stand up to a bully? Risk your life for a friend?
    Henry lives with his father and sister on the Victorian Goldfields. Still mourning the loss of his mother and baby brother, Henry helps his father to mine the...

  • The Nellie Stories

    It's 1849 and Nellie O'Neill has arrived in South Australia on a ship bringing orphan girls from Irish workhouses. She has left the famine in Ireland far behind, and is full of hopes and dreams for the future. She wants to learn to read, to be part o...

  • Finch

  • The Ruby Stories

    The year is 1930 and Ruby Quinlan lives in a big house in Adelaide with her parents and her fox terrier, Baxter. As she prepares for her 12th birthday party, Ruby has never been happier, but the world outside is experiencing harder times. Ruby knows...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Penny Matthews has published 19 books.

Penny Matthews does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Ruby Stories, was published in March 2019.

The first book by Penny Matthews, Amazing And Bizarre, was published in September 1992.

No. Penny Matthews does not write books in series.
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