Selby Surfs (11 page)
Authors: Duncan Ball
Duncan Ball
‘Tell me what I should do with my life!’ Bert wailed. ‘Should I catch a boat to South America? Should I learn to play the trombone? Should I start an ostrich farm? I need your help! Give me a sign, any sign!’
Sadly, Bert was talking to the only one he trusted in the whole world: Gazza, his stuffed goat. And, once again, the goat wasn’t talking …
Piggott Place
is a riotous but touching comedy about twelve-year-old Bert Piggott as he struggles to keep his family of dreamers, ratbags and scoundrels together. Everyone hates the Piggotts and now the council is going to evict them from their once beautiful mansion, Piggott Place. But the authorities haven’t bargained on Bert and his young friend Antigone (would-be star of stage and screen) and their crazy scheme. The question is: can two kids take on a world of adults and win?
Duncan Ball
Piggotts in Peril
begins with the shy and sensitive Bert Piggott accidentally finding the map to pirate treasure hidden many years ago by his great-great-great-great-grandfather. At first a quest for untold wealth seems the answer to all his problems but getting it means bringing along his scheming, ratbag family. Little does he know that what lies ahead are problems that even the pessimistic Bert could never imagine: the terror of turbulent seas aboard a ‘borrowed’ boat, capture by pirates, being marooned on the Isle of the Dead, and more.
Piggotts in Peril
is a warm, adventure-comedy about the origins of the universe, the evolution of humankind — and pirate treasure.
Angus&Robertson
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First published in Australia in 1999
This edition published in 2011
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Text copyright © Duncan Ball 1999
Illustration copyright © Allan Stomann 1999
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
Ball, Duncan, 1941–.
Selby surfs/Ball, Duncan
ISBN: 978-0-2072-0003-8 (pbk.)
ISBN: 978-0-7304-9530-7 (ePub)
1. Dogs — Juvenile fiction. I. Stomann, Allan. II. Title.
A823.3
Cover and internal design by Christa Edmonds