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My Australian Story: Voyage to Botany Bay by Chrissie Michaels
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | 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
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
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
$9.99 AUD
$16.99 (41% off)
Category: Children's Non Fiction | 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
My Very First Story Time: The Little Mermaid: A fairy tale for reading aloud by Pat-a-Cake, Ronne Randall
$12.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books | Series: My Very First Story Time Ser.
The Little Mermaid lives under the sea, but she wants to know what it's like to walk on land. She visits a Sea Witch, who promises to change her tail for legs, but only in exchange for her lovely singing voice. Will the Little Mermaid be able to get her voice back? This story is a perfect introduction ...Show more
No Way Back: The Journey of a Convict 1789 (My True Story) by Valerie Wilding
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My True Story
Join Mary Wade on a long and perilous journey that begins in the slums of eighteenth century London. Aged thirteen, Mary is imprisoned in Newgate prison awaiting sentence of death for a petty theft. When her sentence is commuted to transportation she sets sail onboard a prison ship to the other side of ...Show more
Our Don Bradman by ALLEN Peter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Australia is in the grip of the Great Depression. Victor's father has lost his job and the family is moving to Sydney. Victor not only sees Don Bradman in action, he even gets to meet him. The English cricket team is coming to Australia so it's going to be a great season. But England has some nasty surp ...Show more
Our Race for Reconciliation (My Australian Story) by Anita Heiss
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's 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
Pompeii: A Roman Girl's Diary, AD 78-79 (My Story) by Sue Reid
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Story
It's August AD 78 and Claudia is at the Forum in Pompeii. It's a day of strange encounters and even odder portents. When the ground shakes Claudia is convinced it is a bad omen. What does it all mean? And why is she so disturbed by Vesuvius, the great volcano that looms over the city.
Riding with Thunderbolt (My Australian Story) by Allan Baillie
$16.99 AUD
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
Road to War: A First World War Girl's Diary, 1917 (My Story) by Valerie Wilding
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Story
It's 1917 and the Great War rages in Europe. When Daffy Rowntree's brother goes missing in action, she refuses to sit safely in England, and determines to do something to help win the war. Soon she finds herself in the mud and horror of the battlefields of France, driving an ambulance transporting the w ...Show more
Roman Invasion: A British Boy, AD 84 (My Story) by Jim Eldridge
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Story
It's AD 84 when Bran, a prince of the Carvetii tribe, is captured by the Romans. A legion of soldiers is marching east, to build a military road. It's hostile country, and Bran is to go with them as a hostage to ensure the legion's safety...but no one is safe in newly conquered Britain. Experience his ...Show more
Rum Rebellion (My Australian Story) by Libby Gleeson
$16.99 AUD
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