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A Different Sort of Real: The Diary of Charlotte McKenzie, Melbourne, 1918 by Kerry Greenwood
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Category: Teen/Young Adult Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
As the horrors of the First World War are drawing to a close, a danger arises that will kill more people around the world than the great war itself, an influenza pandemic. Charlotte McKenzie, who assists the doctor next door, experiences first hand the devastating affects of the disease; even her family ...Show more
A Tale of Two Families: The Diary of Jan Packard, Melbourne 1974 by Jenny Pausacker
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Category: Teen/Young Adult Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Jan Packard's family and the family next door meet once a month for a barbeque. One family has a son who went to the Vietnam War; the other has a son who was a draft resister. Then...Jan's mother joins the Women's Movement...and Jan wants to play football but is rejected by the boys. It is a time of cha ...Show more
Archer's Melbourne Cup (My Australian Story) by Vashti Farrer
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Category: Children's Reference | Series: My Australian Story | Reading Level: 11+
The year is 1861 and a major horse race is about to be run for the first time - the Melbourne Cup. Thirteen-year-old Robby Jenkins is working as a stablehand, and is convinced that his favourite horse, Archer, can win. Archer's Melbourne Cup tells the story of how one of Australia's iconic events began. ...Show more
Atomic Testing - My Australian Story by Alan Tucker
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Category: Children's Reference | Series: My Australian Story
The British Government's going to test atomic bombs on the Woomera Rocket Range. It's in the paper. Mum said that if she'd known they were going to test atomic bombs here, she'd never have come. What's she worried about? It's only a bomb. When the army assigns Anthony's father to work on the top secret ...Show more
Bombing of Darwin (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
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Category: Teen/Young Adult Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
"More bombs exploded and within seconds several ships were on fire. Japanese planes flew so close to me that I could not only see the red circles painted under their wings, but I could see the pilots' faces. It only took a moment." It was a moment that Tom would always remember - that morning of 19 Febr ...Show more
Bushfire: Surviving Black Saturday (My Australian Story) by Sally Murphy
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Category: Children's Reference | 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
Cyclone Tracy (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
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Category: Children | Series: My Australian Story | Reading Level: 10-12
Darwin is almost completely destroyed; buildings, shops, houses, cars. Whole streets are gone, even the signposts. And now the people are going. Evacuations started today. Ryan just wants to hang out with his mates, go fishing and avoid being hassled by his dad, the super-strict deputy principal. But tr ...Show more
Escape from Cockatoo Island (My Australian Story) by Yvette Poshoglian
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Category: Younger Readers | 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
Heroes of Tobruk (My Australian Story) by David Mulligan
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Category: Children's Reference | 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 R. Tucker
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Category: Children's Reference | 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
Kokoda (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
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Category: Children's Reference | 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
My Australia Story - Surviving Sydney Cove by Goldie Alexander
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Category: Children's Reference | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
Lizzie Harvey, a convict transported to Sydney Cove, is starved and overworked. She has to fetch the 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 ...Show more