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Refugee: The Diary of Ali Ismail, Woomera, 2001-2002 by Alan Sunderland
$16.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
Ali Ismail is a refugee. In Afghanistan, the Taliban have murdered his father, and so Ali's uncle smuggles him out of the country to safety - to Australia. But instead of finding freedom, Ali is taken to a detention centre in the outback. For twelve long months he waits to find out if he will be allowed ...Show more
Riding with Thunderbolt (My Australian Story) by Allan Baillie
$16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
When Ben Cross runs away from his brutal uncle, he is looking for adventure. But he finds much more than that when he joins the bushranger Thunderbolt and becomes the cockatoo-or lookout-for the bushranger's gang. In between raiding cattle stations, inns, stores and mail coaches, Ben befriends Thunderbo ...Show more
Rum Rebellion (My Australian Story) by Libby Gleeson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: My Australian Story | Reading Level: 11+
'The soldiers are coming,' he said. 'They are checking every house. There is free grog for all.' '...The air was full with the smell of bonfires. Their glare illuminated the night sky and showed to us the streets filled with drunken soldiers and scared citizenry, us amongst them.' David Bellamy fears th ...Show more
Snatched by Pirates (My Australian Story) by Patricia Bernard
$16.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
The perahu's crew is yelling in Malay for us to stop. Samuel is shouting that they are pirates and that they will rob us. I'm hiding my diary and pencil inside my shirt ...Billy Shanghai Hamilton has been blackbirded-snatched by pirates in the Torres Strait and forced to work on a pearling boat. Greed f ...Show more
Sydney Harbour Bridge (My Australian Story) by Vashti Farrer
$16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
'I said to Mum that the sky-workers must have really good heads for heights, but she said, Either that, or they have a family to feed and will do anything for a job that pays.' It is 1932 and Sydney has hit hard times but the construction of a bridge that will reach across the harbour is setting spirits ...Show more
The Contagion (My Australian Story) by Kerry Greenwood
$17.99 AUD
Category: Reference | 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
The Deadly Flu by Kerry Greenwood
$16.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: My Australian Story
Following the horrors of the First World War, a danger arises that will kill more people around the world than the Great War itself - an influenza pandemic. Charlotte McKenzie, assisting the doctor next door, finds herself experiencing at close hand the effects of this devastating disease - and when it ...Show more
The Hunt for Ned Kelly (My Australian Story) by Sophie Masson
$16.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: My Australian Story
North-east Victoria, 1879. Jamie Ross and his older sister Ellen are alone in the world after the death of their father. Determined to make their fortune, they head to Beechworth - and straight into the midst of the search for Ned Kelly, the most notorious bushranger of all time. Jamie is fascinated by ...Show more
The Hunt for Ned Kelly (My Australian Story) by Sophie Masson
$16.99 AUD
Category: YA Historical Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
North-east Victoria, 1879. Jamie Ross and his older sister Ellen are alone in the world after the death of their father. Determined to make their fortune, they head to Beechworth and straight into the midst of the search for Ned Kelly, the most notorious bushranger of all time. Jamie is fascinated by Ne ...Show more
The Phar Lap Mystery (My Australian Story) by Sophie Masson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: My Australian Story
Sally's dad is a private detective, and he's just been offered the case of a lifetime - investigating who tried to shoot Phar Lap before the 1930 Melbourne Cup. Helping her dad investigate, Sally begins to feel a sense of mounting dread as Phar Lap goes from victory to victory - and collects some danger ...Show more
The Snowy (My Australian Story) by Siobhan McHugh
$16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
They had been loading the tunnel face with gelignite when the storm came over. The lightning struck the mountain and went down through an underground watercourse to the wet rockface and set off some of the charges, exploding the rock. Eva Fischer has moved to Cabramurra, the highest town in Australia. E ...Show more
Who Am I? (My Australian Story) by Anita Heiss
$16.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction | 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