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  Clementine Rose Appleby

  Five-year-old daughter of Lady Clarissa

  Lavender

  Clemmie’s teacup pig

  Lady Clarissa Appleby

  Clementine’s mother and the owner of Penberthy House

  Digby Pertwhistle

  Butler at Penberthy House

  Aunt Violet Appleby

  Clementine’s grandfather’s sister

  Pharaoh

  Aunt Violet’s beloved sphynx cat

  Friends and village folk

  Margaret Mogg

  Owner of the Penberthy Floss village shop

  Clyde Mogg

  Mrs Mogg’s husband

  Claws Mogg

  Margaret’s tabby cat

  Father Bob

  Village minister

  Odette Rousseau

  Sophie’s mother

  Mr Tribble

  Joshua’s father

  Mrs Tribble

  Joshua’s mother

  Herbert Tribble

  Joshua’s goat

  Mrs Archibald

  Angus’s mother

  Basil Hobbs

  Documentary filmmaker and neighbour

  Ana Hobbs (nee Barkov)

  Former prima ballerina and neighbour

  School staff and students

  Mrs Ethel Bottomley

  Teacher at Ellery Prep

  Mr Roderick Smee

  Clementine’s Year One teacher

  Sophie Rousseau

  Clementine’s best friend

  Poppy Bauer

  Clementine’s friend, classmate

  Araminta Hobbs

  Ten-year-old daughter of Basil and Ana

  Teddy Hobbs

  Five-year-old twin son of Basil and Ana, classmate

  Tilda Hobbs

  Five-year-old twin daughter of Basil and Ana, classmate

  Angus Archibald

  Friend in Clementine’s class

  Joshua Tribble

  Boy in Clementine’s class

  Astrid

  Clever Year One girl

  Others

  Sean McCrae

  Guest at Penberthy House and friend of Anna Hobbs

  Felix Barkov

  Anna Hobbs’s brother

  Gareth

  Member of Clementine’s ballet class

  Toby

  Oboist

  Tasha

  Usher

  Kat, Lydia, Zizi

  Ballerinas

  Elaina

  Principal violinist

  Jacqueline Harvey taught for many years in girls’ boarding schools. She is the author of the bestselling Alice-Miranda series and the Clementine Rose series, and was awarded Honour Book in the 2006 Australian CBC Awards for her picture book The Sound of the Sea. She now writes full-time and is working on more Alice-Miranda and Clementine Rose adventures.

  www.jacquelineharvey.com.au

  Look out for Clementine Rose’s next adventure

  1 April 2015

  Books by Jacqueline Harvey

  Clementine Rose and the Surprise Visitor

  Clementine Rose and the Pet Day Disaster

  Clementine Rose and the Perfect Present

  Clementine Rose and the Farm Fiasco

  Clementine Rose and the Seaside Escape

  Clementine Rose and the Treasure Box

  Clementine Rose and the Famous Friend

  Alice-Miranda at School

  Alice-Miranda on Holiday

  Alice-Miranda Takes the Lead

  Alice-Miranda at Sea

  Alice-Miranda in New York

  Alice-Miranda Shows the Way

  Alice-Miranda in Paris

  Alice-Miranda Shines Bright

  Alice-Miranda in Japan

  Alice-Miranda at Camp

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted by any person or entity, including internet search engines or retailers, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including printing, photocopying (except under the statutory exceptions provisions of the Australian Copyright Act 1968), recording, scanning or by any information storage and retrieval system without the prior written permission of Random House Australia. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly.

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  Clementine Rose and the Ballet Break-In

  Copyright © Jacqueline Harvey 2015

  The moral right of the author and the illustrator has been asserted.

  A Random House book

  Published by Random House Australia Pty Ltd

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  First published by Random House Australia in 2015

  National Library of Australia

  Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

  Author: Harvey, Jacqueline

  Title: Clementine Rose and the ballet break-in / Jacqueline Harvey

  ISBN: 978 1 74275 758 2 (ebook)

  Series: Harvey, Jacqueline. Clementine Rose; 8

  Target audience: For primary school age

  Dewey number: A823.4

  Cover and internal illustrations by J.Yi

  Cover design and additional illustration by Leanne Beattie

  Internal design by Midland Typesetters, Australia

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