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Archer's Melbourne Cup (My Australian Story) by Vashti Farrer
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
The year is 1861 and a major horse race is about to be run for the first time - the Melbourne Cup. Thirteen-year-old Robby Jenkins is working as a stablehand, and is convinced that his favourite horse, Archer, can win. Archer's Melbourne Cup tells the story of how one of Australia's iconic events began. ...Show more
Atomic Testing - My Australian Story by Alan Tucker
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Category: Children's Non 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
Bombing of Darwin (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
"More bombs exploded and within seconds several ships were on fire. Japanese planes flew so close to me that I could not only see the red circles painted under their wings, but I could see the pilots' faces. It only took a moment." It was a moment that Tom would always remember - that morning of 19 Febr ...Show more
Bushfire: Surviving Black Saturday (My Australian Story) by Sally Murphy
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | 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
Cyclone Tracy (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Darwin is almost completely destroyed; buildings, shops, houses, cars. Whole streets are gone, even the signposts. And now the people are going. Evacuations started today. Ryan just wants to hang out with his mates, go fishing and avoid being hassled by his dad, the super-strict deputy principal. But tr ...Show more
Escape from Cockatoo Island (My Australian Story) by Yvette Poshoglian
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
I am in the middle of Sydney Harbour, stuck on this place the masters call Cockatoo Island...I am here because I am an orphan, but I cannot help feeling like I have been sent here for doing something wrong. It is 1879 and life in the Biloela Industrial School is tough for eleven-year-old Olivia Markham. ...Show more
Heroes of Tobruk (My Australian Story) by David Mulligan
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Category: Children's Non 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 Non 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
Kokoda (My Australian Story) by Alan R. Tucker
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
In his diary, Archie records his own battles at home, against the local bully Beefy; how Townsville copes as it becomes a base for the Pacific campaign; and the Australian east coast reels under Japanese bombs. Archie's two brothers are fighting in the battlefield of World War II. There is nothing betwe ...Show more
My Australia Story - Surviving Sydney Cove by Goldie Alexander
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
Lizzie Harvey, a convict transported to Sydney Cove, is starved and overworked. She has to fetch the 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 ...Show more
My Australian Story: Banner Bold by Nadia Wheatley
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Category: Children's Non 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
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Category: Young Readers | 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.