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  • Bill Wiley has seen action - some of it open, much of it covert - in many of the world's most dangerous places. In his country's name, he has brought lives to an end, rarely expecting to understand the reasoning behind his orders. But when he is call...




  • Rosanna Nixon -- a small but feisty one-girl awkward squad known as the Mouse -- is beginning to realize that her job is choking her to death. Her rival tabloid newshounds want to screw her -- in every way -- and they haven't got a hope in he...



  • This book, previously published as The Skinback Fusiliers, is short, funny, bitter and uncompromising, and retells the real experiences of three young men who join the army because they think it will deal them better hands than life has offered so fa...



  • "Handsome pencil, ink, and watercolor illustrations on nearly every spread evoke the vastness and unfathomable mystery of the sea, varying from black and white to full color." -- �School Library Journal

    A tragic tale of obsession and revenge ...



  • Jan Needle's fourth Sea Officer William Bentley naval adventure finds the young lieutenant in the Bahamas. With the Biter sunk beneath the Caribbean waves, along with Captain "Slack Dickie" Kaye's corrupted dream of riches, Will Bentley is forced ine...



  • Midshipman William Bentley awaits trial on charges of treason -- until he is offered the chance to avoid prison by serving as first lieutenant to Richard Kaye, now captain of Will's old ship Biter. Will accepts and begins a harrowing journey to...



  • Young William Bentley, survivor of the bloody Welfare mutiny, reluctantly resumes his naval career as an officer on the press tender Biter. When the Biter is reassigned to combat the wicked trade of smuggling, Bentley is caught up in the invest...



  • Under sealed orders for a long, arduous voyage, Captain Daniel Swift dispenses shipboard law with an iron fist to forge an efficient crew from a ragged group of unwilling, inexperienced "volunteers." ...







  • Wagstaffe is an unusual boy. He is kind, polite and generous-but his parents think that he's completely useless. He is a bit scruffy, true, but is that really an excuse for them to run away and join a circus? They do, and soon become world famous, du...






  • Level: Advancing Beginner to Intermediate Piano Solo. CONTENTS: Go, Tell It On The Mountain; God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen; He Is Born!; Joy To The World!; Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming; Of The Father's Love Begotten ; The First Noel....



  • Everyone knows that the Germans are man-eaters. At least, Albeson knows for sure and he will not welcome two German children to his school. His efforts to prevent them coming, however, set off a terrifying chain of events....









  • Bernard didn't understand a lot of what he learned from Shofiq over the next while, but that didn't matter much. What did matter, what made him feel great, better than he had done for ages, was that they became mates, buddyroos, real muckers. It was ...



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    'Unbidden, Simon saw a face before his eyes, a girl's face with blonde hair. Unbidden, his teeth clamped shut, ground against each other. She was the target.' Simple, lumpy Simon Mason. Of course he's a bully and a liar, even his mother thinks so. An...


Award-Winning Books by Jan Needle

Moby-Dick
2006 Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) -- Gold


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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jan Needle has published 21 books.

Jan Needle does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Death Order, was published in February 2015.

The first book by Jan Needle, My Mate Shofiq, was published in April 1983.

No. Jan Needle does not write books in series.