The Magpie Way: Finding Alice

by Robert Kingsley Hawes

Overview

Magpie Max begins life in Gum Tree Park, which the magpies call the Kingdom of Albert. Albert is the kingdom's ruthless grand master and Max is his youngest son.

Max goes to Home School where he learns everything a magpie needs to know, but his family life is far from happy. Alice, his only sister, defies their father's authority and is banished from the kingdom. She sets out to find the mythical Great River, the place where Mother Nature's creatures gather to exchange wisdom and knowledge.

Max spends an unhappy winter missing his sister, but come the spring, he too is banished. He decides to go looking for Alice but soon discovers that the world beyond the city is far different to how he imagined.

The story follows Max's adventures as he journeys into Australia's harsher landscapes, following clues on the whereabouts of his sister. Finally, he finds her in circumstances that are contrary to their father's values, but she is content for she has found a purpose in life and no longer wishes to find the Great River.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780645218978
Publisher:	Smile Time
Publication date:	10/31/2023
Series:	The Magpie Way , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	164
File size:	842 KB
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Robert Kingsley Hawes is a retired management accountant and one-time professional fisherman who now spends most of his time in a small seaside town on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula. He had always wanted to write feel-good stories, but when his wife passed away in 2013, it was still on is bucket list. His first book, "When Pop Took Us Fishing", was published in 2016. This was a family memoir, but since then, he has set up his own imprint (Smile Time) and he writes feel-good books for young adult/adult readers.

Table of Contents

1 Home School

2  Mealtime

3  Flight School

4  Poor Old Dad

5  The Noisy Miners

6  Morning Glory

7  Worms

8  Unthinkable Consequences

9  Mad Magpie

10  War

11  The Golden Rule of Mealtime

12  Charlie

13  Dopey

14  The Martial Arts

15  The Crazies

16  Nebby

17  Dare Devil Dopey

18  The World

19  Crossing the Line

20  Alice leaves

21  Returned from the Dead

22  The Rebel

23  Hard Times

24  Mayzie

25  Banishment

26  Farewell to Friends

27  A Different World

28  Never trust a Crow

29  Tinker and Tinkalina

30  Lofty the Lost

31  Garry the Grumpy Sheep

32  Skippy

33  The Well-meaning Wildlife Park

34  The Land of Equal Opportunity

35  A Family Reunion

36  The Lookout

37  Bernard

38  Into the Wilderness

39  Homer

40  Trouble back Home

41 Journey's End

42  Eden Springs