Ruth Park
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Description
Rosina Ruth Lucia Park AM was a New Zealand–born Australian author. Her best known works are the novels The Harp in the South and Playing Beatie Bow, and the children's radio serial The Muddle-Headed Wombat, which also spawned a book series (Wikipedia).
Books
My Sister Sif
Fourteen-year-old Riko manages to get her delicate older sister Sif and herself to their remote Pacific island home, where an American scientist who falls in love with Sif and discovers her connection with an underwater race creates complications in Riko's life.
Playing Beatie Bow
A lonely Australian girl from a divided family is transported back to the 1880's and an immigrant family from the Orkney Islands.
When the wind changed
A boy who makes awful faces is stuck with his most hideous one when the wind changes.
The gigantic balloon
The dream of a lowly store clerk in Sydney comes true when a huge balloon arrives from France to promote an advertising campaign, but without a balloonist.
Ten-cent island
When an American family living in Sydney wins, in a raffle, a tropical island off the coast of Queensland, they decide to live on the island for a couple of months, where they enjoy the freedom and the plant and animal life and get to know the neighbors.