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My Australian Story: Who am I? by Anita Heiss
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story Ser. | Reading Level: 9-12
I woke up this morning and I couldn't stop crying, cos this place is not my home, even though everyone says it is. When I was a little girl Mum would always hug me when I cried and tell me everything would be all right. Who's gunna hug me here? Mary lives with the Burkes, but they're not her real family ...Show more
My Friend, the Enemy by Jenny Blackman
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
It is 1915 and Australia is involved in the Great War. Young Australian men are dying in the trenches of Europe. The village of Wirreebilla in the Adelaide Hills seems peaceful and far away...but is it really so peaceful? German settlers are being treated increasingly as aliens by Wirreebilla locals, an ...Show more
Our Race for Reconciliation (My Australian Story) by Anita Heiss
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Category: Young Adult | Series: My Australian Story
Mel Gordon loves running, and watching Seinfeld, but mostly she loves Cathy Freeman. It's 2000 and the Olympics are going to be held in Australia. In a year of surprises, Mel finds out that Cathy Freeman is coming to talk to her school. And her family is heading to Sydney! It becomes an unforgettable jo ...Show more
Riding with Thunderbolt (My Australian Story) by Allan Baillie
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
When Ben Cross runs away from his brutal uncle, he is looking for adventure. But he finds much more than that when he joins the bushranger Thunderbolt and becomes the cockatoo-or lookout-for the bushranger's gang. In between raiding cattle stations, inns, stores and mail coaches, Ben befriends Thunderbo ...Show more
Secrets and Sisterhood by Jenny Pausacker
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Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Jan Packard starts a diary because she is bored, but she suddenly finds there is a lot happening around her. Everyone seems to be changing and doing things she never expected. Her mum is attending consciousness-raising meetings, her best friend has gone boy-crazy, she discovers her older brother was a d ...Show more
Stowaway to Botany Bay by Chrissie Michaels
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
I dared not move... I was a bread stealer. A chicken feather villain. A salted mutton thief. I guiltily recalled the paper, the ink, the leather pouch I had stolen. And even though I had not intended it so... I was a stowaway. Julienne roams the fortress tunnels of Brest, France, cold, hungry and knowin ...Show more
Surviving Sydney Cove (My Australian Story) by Goldie Alexander
$16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Nonfiction | Series: My Australian Story
Lizzie Harvey, a convict transported to Sydney Cove, is starved and overworked. She has to fetch water, mend clothes, please her master, care for his china-doll daughter and tiptoe around his moody soldier son. She can barely find time to dream about the way things used to be, let alone write in her dia ...Show more
Sydney Harbour Bridge (My Australian Story) by Vashti Farrer
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Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
'I said to Mum that the sky-workers must have really good heads for heights, but she said, Either that, or they have a family to feed and will do anything for a job that pays.' It is 1932 and Sydney has hit hard times but the construction of a bridge that will reach across the harbour is setting spirits ...Show more
The Hunt for Ned Kelly (My Australian Story) by Sophie Masson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
North-east Victoria, 1879. Jamie Ross and his older sister Ellen are alone in the world after the death of their father. Determined to make their fortune, they head to Beechworth - and straight into the midst of the search for Ned Kelly, the most notorious bushranger of all time. Jamie is fascinated by ...Show more
The Hunt for Ned Kelly (My Australian Story) by Sophie Masson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
North-east Victoria, 1879. Jamie Ross and his older sister Ellen are alone in the world after the death of their father. Determined to make their fortune, they head to Beechworth and straight into the midst of the search for Ned Kelly, the most notorious bushranger of all time. Jamie is fascinated by Ne ...Show more
The Outback (My Australian Story) by Christine Harris
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
The Diary of Jimmy Porter, Central Australia, 1927-1928 Jimmy Porter has moved to the middle of nowhere. His uncle's family live in a wattle-and-daub hut, days' walk away from even the nearest neighbour. Life in 1927 in the outback is tough, but the people who live there can cope with just about anythin ...Show more
The Phar Lap Mystery (My Australian Story) by Sophie Masson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Sally's dad is a private detective, and he's just been offered the case of a lifetime - investigating who tried to shoot Phar Lap before the 1930 Melbourne Cup. Helping her dad investigate, Sally begins to feel a sense of mounting dread as Phar Lap goes from victory to victory - and collects some danger ...Show more