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BANNER BOLD - MY AUSTRALIAN STORY by WHEATLEY NADIA
19.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
In 1854, Rosa Aarons travelled with her family from London to the diggings on the Ballarat goldfield, where she met the Governor of the Colony, the leader of the diggers, Lady Macbeth, and a dog called Bonaparte.
Bushfire: Surviving Black Saturday (My Australian Story) by Sally Murphy
16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: My Australian Story
Amy is staying in Marysville with her grandmother, and help in the garden and clean out her gutters. It is, after all, bushfire season. As summer arrives, so do the fires, and Dad is busy helping control the flames in bushfires that have started burning in Victoria. But it is early February 2009, and th ...Show more
Heroes of Tobruk (My Australian Story) by David Mulligan
16.99 AUD
Category: 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
Kokoda (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | 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: 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
My Australian Story: Black Sunday by Evan McHugh
16.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Nipper only wants to be one thing: a lifesaver. In his world they're larger than life, walking, talking heroes. He's too young, but he starts to train in secret, challenging himself in the Bondi surf. But his secret comes to light one hot Sunday in 1938 - a day that was to become infamous.
My Australian Story: Don Bradman and Me by Peter Allen
16.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
The Don is my hero because he is the greatest batsman in the world. Dad says all Australians are proud of The Don, even those who don't normally follow cricket. He says The Don is an inspiration to everyone, because whenever he gets a big score, people smile and forget about their troubles. There are lo ...Show more
My Australian Story: Fremantle Prison Break by Deborah Lisson
16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: My Australian Story
If Captain Anthony and his friends are smugglers, surely they would be smuggling stuff into the Colony, yet they were talking about taking them off in a whaleboat. What on earth would you want to smuggle out of Western Australia? Thomas Morris thinks something most mysterious is going on in Bunbury wher ...Show more
My Australian Story: Gallipoli by Alan Tucker
16.99 AUD
Category: Non-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: Vietnam by Deborah Challinor
16.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | 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
16.99 AUD
Category: 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: Non-Fiction | 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