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My Australian Story: Gallipoli by Alan Tucker
$16.99 AUD
Category: Junior 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: Melting Pot by Christopher Cheng
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Category: Young Adult | Series: My Australian Story | Reading Level: 9-11
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: Young Adult | 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: Young Adult | Series: My Australian Story | Reading Level: 10-12
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: Young Adult | Series: My Australian Story | Reading Level: 9-12
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: Young Adult | 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
My Australian Story: Vietnam by Deborah Challinor
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Category: Young Adult | Series: My Australian Story
It's 1969 and Davey lives to surf with his older brother Tom and listen to the latest hits. Davey's most cherished goal is to win the inaugural Newcastle Under-14 Surf Championship planned for May 1970 with his best friends Johnno and Pete. But then Tom is drafted into the army and sent to Vietnam and e ...Show more
My Australian Story: Voyage to Botany Bay by Chrissie Michaels
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Category: Young Adult | Series: My Australian Story
I dared not moveE 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 soE I was a stowaway. Julienne roams the fortress tunnels of Brest, France, cold, hungry and knowing on ...Show more
My Australian Story: Who am I? by Anita Heiss
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Category: Young Adult | 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
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Category: Young Adult | 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
New Gold Mountain (My Australian Story) by Christopher Cheng
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Category: Young Adult | Series: My Australian Story
Shu Cheong works on the goldfields at Lambing Flat. Life is tough, and there are many white settlers who are anything but friendly. It is 1860, and the white miners' behaviour towards the Chinese is becoming more and more violent. Shu Cheong witnesses increasing hatred and brutality towards his people.. ...Show more
Our Race for Reconciliation (My Australian Story) by Anita Heiss
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Category: History | 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