‘But…but he’s our best student,’ protested Dr Mussells.
‘He my best friend,’ boomed Mug.
‘He’s okay. For a puppy,’ said Princess Princess. She sniffed back a tear. ‘I can’t believe I’m a zombie. A zombie!’
Yesterday said nothing. But her eyes were still and pleading.
She needs me, thought Boo. She’s heading back to slavery. Yesterday will never ask for help. But somehow I have to find out what she really needs. I have to help Princess Princess accept she’s a zombie too. I have to help Mug, well, just be Mug. Who’ll find his ear for him next time he loses it?
They all depend on me.
There was something else, too. A feeling deep inside him, like he’d been swimming through jelly all his life and had only just found firm ground beneath his feet. He’d started out learning to be a Hero to rescue Mum. But he was a Hero now. He couldn’t go back to delivering ice cream, Rat Surprises and eating his earwig muesli like a good pup. He needed to stride through the universes—well, scamper, anyhow—rescuing anyone who needed it.
‘Boo,’ said Mum warningly. ‘Home!
How was he going to get out of this?
Some of Jackie’s Awards
HITLER’S DAUGHTER
CBC Younger Readers’ Award winner, 2000
UK National Literacy Association WOW! Award winner, 2001
Shortlisted in the Fiction for Older Readers category, YABBA awards 2007 and 2008
US Library Association Notable Book
Koala Awards 2007 and 2008, Roll of Honour, and shortlisted for Favourite Book of 2008
Semi-Grand Prix award, Japan
The Helpmann Award for a Children’s Presentation and two Drover’s Awards, 2007, for the Monkey Baa production of Hitler’s Daughter: the play
IN YOUR BLOOD
ACT Book of the Year, 2002
DIARY OF A WOMBAT (illustrated by Bruce Whatley)
Nielsen BookData/Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year, 2002 (the only picture book ever to win this award)
(USA) Benjamin Franklin Award
(USA) Lemmee Award
(USA) Favourite Picture Book of the Year, Cuffie Awards, 2003
(USA) Funniest Book in the Cuffie Awards (tied with Diary of a Worm), 2003
Cool Award, for Best Picture Book, voted by the kids of the ACT, 2003
Young Australian Readers’ Award winner, 2003
KOALA Award for Best Picture Book winner, 2003
(USA) KIND Award winner, 2004
Shortlisted for the Bilby Awards, 2007
Northern Territory KROC Award for Favourite Book of 2007
Bilby Award for Favourite Book of 2008
A ROSE FOR THE ANZAC BOYS
Shortlisted: CBC Awards Book of the Year (Older Readers), 2009
HOW HIGH CAN A KANGAROO HOP?
Shortlisted: CBC Eve Pownall Award for Information Books, 2009
TO THE MOON AND BACK
(co-written with Bryan Sullivan, Jackie’s husband)
CBC Eve Pownall Award for Information Books winner, 2005
THEY CAME ON VIKING SHIPS
Shortlisted: (UK) Essex Book Award
Winner: West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYBRA) (Younger Readers), 2007
Shortlisted: NSW Premier’s History Awards (Young People’s History Prize), 2006
MACBETH AND SON
Shortlisted: CBC Awards, 2007
THE GOAT WHO SAILED THE WORLD
Notable Book: CBC Awards (Younger Readers), 2007
Shortlisted: YABBA Award, 2008
THE CAMEL WHO CROSSED AUSTRALIA
Shortlisted: CBC Awards Book of the Year (Younger Readers), 2009
JOSEPHINE WANTS TO DANCE (illustrated by Bruce Whatley)
Australian Booksellers’ Book of the Year (Younger Readers), 2007
Notable Book: CBC Awards (Early Childhood), 2007
Notable Book: CBC Awards (Picture Book of the Year), 2007
PHARAOH
Shortlisted: CBC Awards (Older Readers), 2008
Shortlisted: ACT Book of the Year (competing with general adult titles), 2008
SHAGGY GULLY TIMES (illustrated by Bruce Whatley)
Shortlisted: CBC Awards (Younger Readers), 2008
White Raven Award winner, 2008
About the Author
Jackie French is a full-time writer and wombat negotiator. Jackie writes fiction and non-fiction for all ages, and has columns in the print media. Jackie is regarded as one of Australia’s most popular children’s authors. She writes across all genres—from picture books, humour and history to science fiction.
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School for Heroes
Lessons for a Werewolf Warrior
Werewolves, wacky creatures and lots of crazy humour—sounds like another hilarious series from Jackie French!
Boojum Bark is a werewolf—and a Hero. He doesn’t really want to be, but it’s the only way he’ll save his mum. Now he has to go to Hero School to learn the Right Way to achieve Hero status.
Werewolves are at the bottom of the pecking order when it comes to Heroes—especially when they lift their legs on the doorpost and do outrageous things on stage in the middle of school assembly. But something strange is happening at the School for Heroes. Could the school be under attack? If so, by whom? And who will protect it? Can Boojum sniff out the perpetrators?
Join the funniest assortment of strange (but Heroic!) characters ever to attend one school as they try to find out what being a Hero really means.
Other titles by Jackie French
Historical
Somewhere Around the Corner • Dancing with Ben Hall
Soldier on the Hill • Daughter of the Regiment
Hitler’s Daughter • Lady Dance • The White Ship
How the Finnegans Saved the Ship • Valley of Gold
Tom Appleby, Convict Boy
They Came on Viking Ships • Macbeth and Son
Pharaoh • The Goat who Sailed the World
The Dog who Loved a Queen • A Rose for the Anzac Boys
The Donkey who Carried the Wounded
Fiction
Rain Stones • Walking the Boundaries • The Secret Beach
Summerland • Beyond the Boundaries
A Wombat Named Bosco • The Book of Unicorns
The Warrior – The Story of a Wombat
Tajore Arkle • Missing You, Love Sara
Dark Wind Blowing
Ride the Wild Wind: The Golden Pony and Other Stories
Non-fiction
Seasons of Content
Invaded My Maths Class and Turned Me into a Writer
How to Guzzle Your Garden • The Book of Challenges
Stamp, Stomp, Whomp •
The Fascinating History of Your Lunch
Big Burps, Bare Bums and Other Bad-Mannered Blunders
To the Moon and Back • Rocket Your Child into Reading
The Secret World of Wombats
How High Can a Kangaroo Hop?
Outlands Trilogy
In the Blood • Blood Moon • Flesh and Blood
School for Heroes
Lessons for a Werewolf Warrior
Wacky Families Series
1. My Dog the Dinosaur • 2. My Mum the Pirate
3. My Dad the Dragon • 4. My Uncle Gus the Garden Gnome
5. My Uncle Wal the Werewolf • 6. My Gran the Gorilla
7. My Auntie Chook the Vampire Chicken
8. My Pa the Polar Bear
Phredde Series
1. A Phaery Named Phredde
2. Phredde and a Frog Named Bruce
3. Phredde and the Zombie Librarian
4. Phredde and the Temple of Gloom
5. Phredde and the Leopard-Skin Librarian
6. Phredde and the Purple Pyramid
7. Phredde and the Vampire Footy Team
8. Phredde and the Ghostly Underpants
Picture Books
Diary of a Wombat • Pete the Sheep
Josephine Wants to Dance
The Shaggy Gully Times • Emily and the Big Bad Bunyip
Baby Wombat’s Week • Queen Victoria’s Underpants
Copyright
Angus&Robertson
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
First published in Australia in 2010
This edition published in 2010
by HarperCollinsPublishers Australia Pty Limited
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Text copyright © Jackie French 2010
Illustrations copyright © Andrea Faith Potter 2010
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French, Jackie
The dance of the deadly dinosaurs / Jackie French,
Andrea F. Potter.
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