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Archer's Melbourne Cup (My Australian Story) by Vashti Farrer
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: My Australian Story | Reading Level: 11+
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
My Australian Story: Fords and Flying Machines by Patricia Barnard
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Category: Middle 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: Gallipoli by Alan Tucker
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Category: Middle 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: My Father's War by Sophie Masson
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Category: Middle 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
Our Race for Reconciliation (My Australian Story) by Anita Heiss
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Category: Non-Fiction | 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
Six Seconds: The Newcastle Earthquake (My Australian Story) by Alan Sunderland
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
I could hardly see. There was dust and smoke everywhere. I was falling, sliding down into a gap that had opened up between parts of the collapsed building. It was dark and silent. all I could hear was the sound of my own breathing, and my beating heart thumping in my ears. Then I heard the cry again: th ...Show more
The Contagion (My Australian Story) by Kerry Greenwood
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Category: Middle Fiction | Series: My Australian Story | Reading Level: very good
As the horrors of the First World War are drawing to a close, a danger has arisen that will kill more people around the world that the Great War did—an influenza pandemic. Charlotte McKenzie, assisting the doctor next door, find herself experiencing at close hand the effects of this devastating disease— ...Show more
Who Am I? (My Australian Story) by Anita Heiss
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Category: Young Adult | Series: My Australian Story
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
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