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Riding with Thunderbolt (My Australian Story) by Allan Baillie
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Category: Children's Non 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
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
'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
Six Seconds: The Newcastle Earthquake (My Australian Story) by Alan Sunderland
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Category: Children's 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
Snatched by Pirates (My Australian Story) by Patricia Bernard
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | 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
Surviving Sydney Cove (My Australian Story) by Goldie Alexander
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Lizzie Harvey, a convict transported to Sydney Cove, is starved and overworked. She has to fetch water, mend clothes, please her master, care for his china-doll daughter and tiptoe around his moody soldier son. She can barely find time to dream about the way things used to be, let alone write in her dia ...Show more
Sydney Harbour Bridge (My Australian Story) by Vashti Farrer
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Category: Children's Non 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
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Category: Children/Teenage Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
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 Hunt for Ned Kelly (My Australian Story) by Sophie Masson
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Category: Children's Non 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 Hunt for Ned Kelly (My Australian Story) by Sophie Masson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non 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 ...Show more
The Outback (My Australian Story) by Christine Harris
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
The Diary of Jimmy Porter, Central Australia, 1927-1928 Jimmy Porter has moved to the middle of nowhere. His uncle's family live in a wattle-and-daub hut, days' walk away from even the nearest neighbour. Life in 1927 in the outback is tough, but the people who live there can cope with just about anythin ...Show more
The Snowy (My Australian Story) by Siobhan McHugh
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Category: Children/Teenage 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
Vietnam (My Australian Story) by Deborah Challinor
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Here we are, fighting alongside the so-called mightiest nation on earth with all the firepower you could ask forjets, B52s, tanks, gunships, rockets, napalm, you name itand the VC are creeping around with a rifle each and we still can't beat the buggers! And it's getting worse, not better. It's 1969. Th ...Show more