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Escape from Cockatoo Island (My Australian Story) by Yvette Poshoglian
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children/Teenage Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
I am in the middle of Sydney Harbour, stuck on this place the masters call Cockatoo Island...I am here because I am an orphan, but I cannot help feeling like I have been sent here for doing something wrong. It is 1879 and life in the Biloela Industrial School is tough for eleven-year-old Olivia Markham. ...Show more
Factory Girl (My Story) by Pamela Oldfield
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Story
Presents a story of the girls and women who slaved fourteenhours a day in the match factories for appalling pay, only to contract such fatal complaints as phossy jaw.
Flying Ace: My Story - Jack Fairfax Royal Flying Corps 1915-1918 by Jim Eldridge
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Story
Jack Fairfax is the 19-year old second son of Lord and Lady Fairfax. The Fairfaxes are steeped in the military tradition, and don't approve of Jack's volunteering for the Royal Flying Corps. New-fangled flying machines are nothing to do with 'proper' warfare. Nevertheless, Jack takes to the skies in his ...Show more
Flying Ace (My Story: War Heroes) by Jim Eldridge
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children/Teenage Fiction | Series: My Story: War Heroes
Jack Fairfax is the 19-year-old second son of Lord and Lady Fairfax. The Fairfaxes are steeped in the military tradition, and don't approve of Jack's volunteering for the Royal Flying Corps. New-fangled flying machines are nothing to do with 'proper' warfare. Nevertheless, Jack takes to the skies in his ...Show more
Hanna (My Holocaust Story) by Goldie Alexander
$16.98 AUD
Category: Children/Teenage Fiction | Series: My Holocaust Story
Hanna Kaminsky loves gymnastics, her best friend Eva, Elza's chicken soup with dumplings and reading. But in September 1939 the happy life that Hanna has always known disappears. The Nazis have invaded Poland and are herding all Jews into ghettos in the cities. Hanna's family are forced into hiding in t ...Show more
Heroes of Tobruk (My Australian Story) by David Mulligan
$16.98 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
It is 1940, and sixteen-year-old Peter Fullerton and his best mate Tony Cantonelli lie about their ages to enlist in the army. Tony also lies about his name - Australia is at war with Italy, and suspicion has been added to the racism he already encounters. Heroes of Tobruk follows these characters from ...Show more
Highway Girl: An English Girl's Diary 1670 (My Story Series) by Valerie Wilding
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Story
It's 1670. When Susannah and her brother are orphaned she is forced to live on the charity of distant relations in England while he seeks his fortune in America. But when news arrives that her brother is dangerously ill Susannah will stop at nothing to get the money she desperately needs to save his lif ...Show more
Hunger: An Irish Girl's Diary, 1845-1847 (My Story) by Carol Drinkwater
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Story
It's 1845 and blight has destroyed the precious potato crop leaving Ireland starving. Phyllis works hard to support her struggling family, but when her mother's health deteriorates, she sets off in search of her rebel brother and is soon swept up in the fight for a free and fair Ireland.
Kokoda (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Its been a disastrous day. The radio news reports that HMAS Canberra has been sunk with the loss of 819 lives and Kokoda has been lost by the Australians. Who knows where Dess lot are? Somewhere on the mountain track between Kokoda and Port Moresby with the Japs hot on their heels. Harold couldnt say to ...Show more
Kokoda (My Australian Story) by Alan R. Tucker
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
In his diary, Archie records his own battles at home, against the local bully Beefy; how Townsville copes as it becomes a base for the Pacific campaign; and the Australian east coast reels under Japanese bombs. Archie's two brothers are fighting in the battlefield of World War II. There is nothing betwe ...Show more
Lady Jane Grey (My Story) by Sue Reid
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children/Teenage Fiction | Series: My Story
This is the tragic story of Lady Jane Grey who was Queen of England for nine days in July 1553. Jane grew up watching her cousins in training as heirs to the throne, little imagining that by a twist of fate she would one day be crowned. But this is Tudor England where nobody plays fair, and even a queen ...Show more
Langdown Manor by Sue Reid
$14.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: MY STORY
Struggling to conform to the rigid certainties of the English upper classes and their traditions, Polly believes that she has found her soulmate in Fred, the young and ambitious groom, who feels as out of place in service as she does at the Hall. When theyall for each other their romance has to be kept ...Show more