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Atomic Testing - My Australian Story by Alan Tucker
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
The British Government's going to test atomic bombs on the Woomera Rocket Range. It's in the paper. Mum said that if she'd known they were going to test atomic bombs here, she'd never have come. What's she worried about? It's only a bomb. When the army assigns Anthony's father to work on the top secret ...Show more
Bushfire: Surviving Black Saturday (My Australian Story) by Sally Murphy
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Category: Junior Nonfiction | Series: My Australian Story
Amy is staying in Marysville with her grandmother, and help in the garden and clean out her gutters. It is, after all, bushfire season. As summer arrives, so do the fires, and Dad is busy helping control the flames in bushfires that have started burning in Victoria. But it is early February 2009, and th ...Show more
Heroes of Tobruk (My Australian Story) by David Mulligan
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Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
It is 1940, and sixteen-year-old Peter Fullerton and his best mate Tony Cantonelli lie about their ages to enlist in the army. Tony also lies about his name - Australia is at war with Italy, and suspicion has been added to the racism he already encounters. Heroes of Tobruk follows these characters from ...Show more
Kokoda (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
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Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Its been a disastrous day. The radio news reports that HMAS Canberra has been sunk with the loss of 819 lives and Kokoda has been lost by the Australians. Who knows where Dess lot are? Somewhere on the mountain track between Kokoda and Port Moresby with the Japs hot on their heels. Harold couldnt say to ...Show more
My Australian Story: Banner Bold by Nadia Wheatley
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Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
Something is happening. I can hear bullets going off, and people are running down towards the Eureka field ...In 1854 Rosa Aarons and her family travel from London to the goldfield at Ballarat. She makes new friends, learns to ride a horse, and helps her family get by. Soon Rosa becomes caught up in one ...Show more
My Australian Story: Black Sunday by Evan McHugh
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Nipper only wants to be one thing: a lifesaver. In his world they're larger than life, walking, talking heroes. He's too young, but he starts to train in secret, challenging himself in the Bondi surf. But his secret comes to light one hot Sunday in 1938 - a day that was to become infamous.
My Australian Story: Convict Girl by Chrissie Michaels
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Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
Almost one year ago I arrived in this colony on board an English transport. I am to leave on board a French Discovery ship ... In the Geographe's Great Cabin glass-cased insects and plant specimens cluttered every nook and cranny. At the long oak table the Commander sat writing in the ship's log. The bl ...Show more
My Australian Story: Don Bradman and Me by Peter Allen
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Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
The Don is my hero because he is the greatest batsman in the world. Dad says all Australians are proud of The Don, even those who don't normally follow cricket. He says The Don is an inspiration to everyone, because whenever he gets a big score, people smile and forget about their troubles. There are lo ...Show more
My Australian Story: Fremantle Prison Break by Deborah Lisson
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Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
If Captain Anthony and his friends are smugglers, surely they would be smuggling stuff into the Colony, yet they were talking about taking them off in a whaleboat. What on earth would you want to smuggle out of Western Australia? Thomas Morris thinks something most mysterious is going on in Bunbury wher ...Show more
My Australian Story: My Father's War by Sophie Masson
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Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Marie's dad has been away for two years, fighting on the Somme battlefields in northern France. For months there has been no word from him, no letters or postcards. Marie and her mother are sick with worry, so they decide to stop waiting - and instead travel to France, to try to find out what has happen ...Show more
My Australian Story: Our Don Bradman by Peter Allen
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Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story | Reading Level: 10-12
Victor McDonald is cricket mad. He plays for his school team and his dream is to meet his cricketing hero, Don Bradman. But Australia is in the grip of the Great Depression. Work isn't easy to come by. Victor's father has lost his job and the family is moving to Sydney. Despite the daily struggle of lif ...Show more
My Australian Story: Outback by Christine Harris
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Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story | Reading Level: 9-12
So far we'd seen emus, birds, rabbits, kangaroos, flies, even a few mosquitoes, but no humans since we left Beltana. I was beginning to feel as though this whole country was empty of human life, except for me and Chip. Jimmy Porter has moved to the middle of nowhere. His uncle's family live in a wattle- ...Show more