Jack Lasenby

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1989
  • Latest Book:
    January 2020
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Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • The Lake

    It is the summer of 1952 in New Zealand. Ruth is nearly thirteen, and she is running away from home; away from her stepfather who keeps trying to touch her, and from her mother, who doesn't seem to notice what is going on. She has no plan in her head...

  • Old Drumble

    The smartest drover's dog there ever was. Winner of the NZ Post Children's & Young Adults Book Awards 2009 - Junior Fiction. the humorous and heartwarming story of Jack Jackman, a young boy who wants to be a stock drover, set in the small Waikato...

  • The Haystack

    Maggie torments the boy down the road, sets fire to the dunny, helps with half the district to build a haystack, and sees the tragedy of unemployment. Along the way, Maggie makes new friends, and receives kindness and help in learning what a girl nee...

  • Aunt Effie and the Island That Sank

    The third, crazy, Spike Milliganesque story in the hilarious Aunt Effie series for junior readers. Aunt Effie is restless. She and her 26 nieces and nephews are off again in the scow Margery Daw on a treasure hunt across the pirate-infested water...

  • Aunt Effie's Ark

    The second book in the hilarious and outrageous 'Aunt Effie' series for junior readers.Aunt Effie, dressed in her green canvas invalid's pyjamas, hibernates all winter, leaving her 26 resourceful nieces and nephews to deal with snowstorm and flood, r...

  • Billy and Old Smoko

    Very funny, must-read-aloud yarn for junior readers about the fantastical adventures of a talking horse and a boy looking for his mother. Billy wakes one morning to find his mother gone and the house in control of a strange woman burning the porridge...

  • Mr Bluenose

    A charming novel for young readers by an award-winning writer, based on a young boy's summer in the countryside and the characters - real and imagined - that he meets. Dad has to go to work, so you go down to see Mr Bluenose; there's always somethin...

  • When Mum Went Funny

    It's war-time and Dad's away, so Mum has to run the farm. Sometimes the stress of it all gives her funny ideas, in this hilarious tale by a much-loved, award-winning junior fiction author. 'You wait till Constable Cuff hears about this . We're going ...

  • Because We Were The Travellers

    The first novel in the exciting Travellers series - a young adult fantasy story of survival against the odds in a fearful futuristic world.In a land called the Whykatto, south of the city of Orklun, the sun rises angry in the sky, eats the winter gra...



  • Travellers #2

    A powerful award-winning young adult fantasy - the second novel in the excellent Travellers series.Pursued by the hateful Salt Men, Ish flees south with his friend Taur, the mute Bull Man. But nowhere is there refuge from the brutal Squint-face, who ...

  • Travellers #3

    A wise and extraordinary YA tale of great challenges, myths and folklore; the third title in the award-winning Travellers series. Lutha of the Floating Village helps Ish, the outcast boy, escape with his beloved dogs, Jak and Nip, but before long, th...

  • Travellers #4

    The fourth and final volume in Jack Lasenby's award-winning Travellers fantasy series for young adult readers.Ish is introduced to Lutha's society; a cruel and primitive society driven by fear and superstition. He quickly distrusts a quality in Lutha...

  • Calling the Gods

    When the challenge is to save not just yourself but an entire community, the stakes are high. --thrown hard on the bottom boards, I stared up at distorted mouths, faces so red I could feel their heat. they stank of rage and of something else; sev...

  • Grandad's Wheelies

    When Jack visits his grandparents, they tell him stories - each outdoing the other with a tale taller and wilder than the last. When Jack visits his grandparents, there's no television to entertain him. No internet, no mobile phone, no tablets. I...

  • Uncle Trev and the Whistling Bull

    It's the 1930s. Our storyteller is crook in bed trying to get over a long sickness and wanting to go back to school, when Uncle Trev arrives to let Mum go out and do the shopping. Uncle Trev tells one story after another about the animals out on his ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jack Lasenby has published 15 books.

Jack Lasenby does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Uncle Trev and the Whistling Bull, was published in January 2020.

The first book by Jack Lasenby, The Lake, was published in May 1989.

No. Jack Lasenby does not write books in series.
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