The Ballad of Cauldron BayAllen & Unwin, 2004 M02 1 - 312 pages The Stella Street mob is off to remote Cauldron Bay, and everything promises to be blissful in the fascinating old wooden house by the beach, until a new girl is foisted on them. Tara is sophisticated, fashionable and into boys especially the wild surfies. Henni just wants to play and have the kind of holiday they ve always had, but now she has to look out for Tara, and her holiday is in danger of being wrecked. Following the success of 45 + 47 Stella Street and Fiddle-back, Elizabeth Honey takes us on another adventure with Henni, Danielle, Zev, Frank, Briquette and the others, but this time it s not so clear just who are the goodies and who are the baddies. As Henni turns thirteen, she learns that people are not always what they seem. Elizabeth Honey writes with the invigorating energy of a salty wind off the sea that wakes you up and makes you see the world afresh. Warm-hearted, funny, touching and wise, this is wonderful story about growing up and living life to the full. |
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Page 69 - Witch. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's...
Page 72 - There was a naughty Boy, And a naughty Boy was he, He ran away to Scotland The people for to see — Then he found That the ground Was as hard, That a yard Was as long, That a song Was as merry, That a cherry Was as red — That lead Was as weighty, That fourscore Was as eighty, That a door Was as wooden As in England...
Page 200 - And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root ; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. Ah! well a-day ! what evil looks Had I from old and young ! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.
Page 218 - They that sail on the sea tell of the danger thereof; and when we hear it with our ears, we marvel thereat.
Page 72 - Then he found That the ground Was as hard That a yard Was as long, That a song Was as merry, That a cherry Was as red — That lead Was as weighty That fourscore Was as eighty That a door Was as wooden As in england — So he stood in His shoes And he wonderd He wonderd He stood in his Shoes and he wonder'd.
Page 84 - Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone: KINDNESS in another's trouble, COURAGE in your own.
Page 235 - WHO hath desired the Sea? — the sight of salt water unbounded — The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded? The sleek-barrelled swell before storm, grey, foamless, enormous, and growing — Stark calm on the lap of the Line or the crazy-eyed hurricane blowing — His Sea in no showing the same — his Sea and the same 'neath each showing — His Sea as she slackens or thrills?
Page 32 - THE MOSQUITO KNOWS THE mosquito knows full well, small as he is he's a beast of prey. But after all he only takes his bellyful, he doesn't put my blood in the bank.
Page 230 - I could see his grin stretched from one side of his face to the other. He'd splashed himself and his eyebrows and nose were glowing. 'What's causing it, Hen?