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Our Australian Girl: Poppy at Summerhill (Book 2) by Gabrielle Wang
$14.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1864 Ser.
It's 1864 . . . and Poppy, disguised as a boy, has escaped from Bird Creek Mission to find her brother, Gus. Life on the road is hard, but Poppy is given shelter at the Summerhill Homestead. There she meets a new friend, Noni - but will Noni discover that Poppy is not who she says she is? And will Poppy ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: Rose in Bloom (Book 4) by Sherryl Clark
$14.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl | Reading Level: 10-13
It's 1901 . . . and even the death of Queen Victoria can't stop the growing excitement as Melbourne gets ready to celebrate Federation – on Rose's birthday! Meanwhile at school, Rose loves being involved in the cricket team. She's so focused on the game coming up that she almost doesn't notice Abigail ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: Rose's Challenge (Book 3) by Sherryl Clark
$14.95 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl
It's 1900 . . . and Rose's world is changing. At last she can go to a proper school where she makes a best friend, learns more than just embroidery and even gets to play in a proper cricket match. But at home, Mother is dangerously ill, Father is worried about Federation, and Aunt Alice is getting in ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: The Grace Stories by Sofie Laguna
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl Ser.
Meet Grace and join her on a historical adventure about a convict girl who is given a second chance. All four Grace stories in one edition, with a bonus chapter at the end!Read all four Grace stories in one beautiful paperback edition. It's 1808 . . . and Grace's world is about to change - from her toug ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: The Grace Stories by Sofie Laguna
$26.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1808 Ser.
For the first time, read all four Grace stories in one beautiful hardback edition.It's 1808 . . .and Grace's world is about to change - from her tough life as a mudlark on the River Thames in London, to the adventures and challenges she faces as a servant girl in a new country.Journey with Grace across ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: The Ruby Stories by Penny Matthews
$26.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl Ser.
It's 1930 . . . and Ruby Quinlan lives in a big house in Adelaide with her parents and her fox terrier, Baxter. As she prepares for her twelfth birthday party, Ruby has never been happier, but the world outside is experiencing harder times. Ruby knows that lots of people are losing their jobs, but her o ...Show more
Our Race for Reconciliation (My Australian Story) by Anita Heiss
$16.99 AUD
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
Ruby of Kettle Farm (Our Australian Girl - Ruby #4) by Penny Matthews; Lucia Masciullo (Illustrator)
$14.95 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1930 Ser.
Follow Ruby and join her adventure in the final of four stories about a happy-go-lucky girl in a time of great change.It's 1931, and Kettle Farm is starting to feel like home, but Ruby is still desperately worried about her dad. He hasn't written for weeks, and nobody knows where he is. Will Dad ever co ...Show more
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
Short excerpt: Without doubt she was the worst of the seven probably because she was the cleverest. Her brilliant inventive powers plunged them all into ceaseless scrapes.
Six Seconds: The Newcastle Earthquake (My Australian Story) by Alan Sunderland
$17.99 AUD
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
Songs of a War Boy (Young Readers Edition) by Deng Thiak Adut; Ben Mckelvey
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Australian | Reading Level: near fine
Deng Adut was six years old when war came to his village in South Sudan. Taken from his mother, he was conscripted into the Sudan People's Liberation Army. He was taught to use an AK-47 then sent into battle. Shot in the back, dealing with illness and the relentless brutality of war, Deng's future was b ...Show more
Split: True stories of leaving, loss and new beginnings by Peter Bishop; Lee Kofman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: True Stories by Prominent Australian Writers
In this compelling anthology of personal essays, curated by award-winning author Lee Kofman, some of Australia's most beloved writers reveal, for the first time, powerful, occasionally funny and often heartbreaking stories of significant endings and their aftermath. Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie P ...Show more