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My Australian Story: Convict Girl by Chrissie Michaels
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non 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 Non 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: Fords and Flying Machines by Patricia Barnard
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
George thinks Mr McGinness and Mr Fysh are too cocky and too flaming young. But I reckon if you've been to war, flown flying machines and shot guns at other flying machines...then you can't be too young for anything. Jack McLaren's dream is to be an automobile mechanic. When his uncle offers him an ap ...Show more
My Australian Story: Fremantle Prison Break by Deborah Lisson
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
Thomas Morris thinks something most mysterious is going on in Bunbury where he delivers telegraphs: some telegraphs carry cryptic messages and there are strangers in town acting in an oddly inconsistent manner. In his diary, Tom records the exciting adventures he has as he tries to solve the mystery and ...Show more
My Australian Story: Fremantle Prison Break by Deborah Lisson
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Category: Children's Non 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: Gallipoli by Alan Tucker
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$21.00 (19% off)
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
Lying about his age and looking for adventure, 14-year-old Victor March enlists in the 10th Battalion of the AIF to fight in the Great War. Victor and his new mates, Fish, Needle and Robbo, are headed for the Gallipoli peninsula, and into battle. He is among the first soldiers to land at what will becom ...Show more
My Australian Story: Marathon of Her Own by Irini Savvides
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Times are tough in Crete and Sophia's father has decided to make a fresh start in Melbourne. Sophia struggles to learn English and to get used to the strange new customs, but no matter how hard she tries no-one at school wants to make friends with a foreigner. Then her talent for running starts to make ...Show more
My Australian Story: Melting Pot by Christopher Cheng
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Edward, Check Chee, lives with his parents above their store in Sydney's Chinatown. His mother is English, his father is Chinese, and Edward is trying to work out where he fits in. He's not the only one - the new White Australia policy is making it harder for Chinese people to settle in Australia, and t ...Show more
My Australian Story: My Father's War by Sophie Masson
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Category: Children's Non 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 Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
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 Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
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
My Australian Story: Plagues and Federation by Vashti Farrer
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
The year 1900 was a momentous one for Kitty Barnes. Bubonic plague, the Black Death, was killing large numbers of people; the country was on the verge of becoming a federation; Kitty's brother was in Africa fighting in the Boer War; and Kitty was finding herself somewhat attracted to Reggie, the boy dow ...Show more