Paula Danziger

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Playing Beatie Bow

Ruth Park

The Homeward Bounders

Diana Wynne Jones

Storm boy

Colin Thiele

The Mysterious Schoolmaster

Karin Anckarsvärd

February dragon

Colin Thiele

Avril Crump and Her Amazing Clones

Angela Woolfe

Climb a lonely hill

Lilith Norman

The Silver Branch

Rosemary Sutcliff

Dogsbody

Diana Wynne Jones

A basket of flowers

Christoph von Schmid

Lamplighter

Marian Susanna Cummins

With Clive in India

G. A. Henty

(wagga, I was looking for D.M. Cornish's book - I didn't know there was a The Lamplighter, so that was new.)

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Patricia MacLachlan.

The coral island

(Valia, the UK Lamplighter novel I thought you might mean was published in 1854, was written by Maria Susanna Cummins. I never found D.M Cornish's book by that name, so thank you. I'll keep an eye out for it. And it gets worse. There is also a third novel called The lamplighter, an Australian publication from 2003, written by Anthony O'Neill and listed in both Amazon & Trove.

It is the same sort of dilemma I also had with The Passage further up the thread, because not only is the 1930's Australian book of that name the same title as a more recent USA title, but the author of the Passage, Vance Palmer, is easily confused with Vance Packard, a famous USA author. Of course I've totally read that Australian one. Not necessarily by choice, unlike most of the Aussie titles I've been using lately. )