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My Australian Story: Plagues and Federation by Vashti Farrer
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Category: Children's Reference | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
The year 1900 was a momentous one for Kitty Barnes. Bubonic plague, the Black Death, was killing large numbers of people; the country was on the verge of becoming a federation; Kitty's brother was in Africa fighting in the Boer War; and Kitty was finding herself somewhat attracted to Reggie, the boy dow ...Show more
My Australian Story: Vietnam by Deborah Challinor
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Category: Teen/Young Adult 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
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Category: Younger Readers | 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
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Category: Teen/Young Adult 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
My Friend, the Enemy by Jenny Blackman
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Category: Teen/Young Adult 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
New Gold Mountain (My Australian Story) by Christopher Cheng
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Category: Children's Reference | Series: My Australian Story
Shu Cheong works on the goldfields at Lambing Flat. Life is tough, and there are many white settlers who are anything but friendly. It is 1860, and the white miners' behaviour towards the Chinese is becoming more and more violent. Shu Cheong witnesses increasing hatred and brutality towards his people.. ...Show more
New Gold Mountain: The Diary of Shu Gheong, Lambing Flat, New South Wales, 1860-1861 by Christopher Chen
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Category: Children | Series: My Australian Story
Shu Cheong works on the goldfields at Laming Flat. Life is tough, and there are many white settlers who are anything but friendly. It is 1860, and the white miners' behaviour towards the Chinese is becoming more and more violent. Shu Cheong witnesses increasing hatred and brutality towards his people, b ...Show more
Our Race for Reconciliation (My Australian Story) by Anita Heiss
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Category: Reduced Price Items | 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
Riding with Thunderbolt (My Australian Story) by Allan Baillie
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Category: Children's Reference | 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 Reference | Series: My Australian Story | Reading Level: 11+
'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
Secrets and Sisterhood by Jenny Pausacker
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Category: Teen/Young Adult Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Jan Packard starts a diary because she is bored, but she suddenly finds there is a lot happening around her. Everyone seems to be changing and doing things she never expected. Her mum is attending consciousness-raising meetings, her best friend has gone boy-crazy, she discovers her older brother was a d ...Show more
Six Seconds: The Newcastle Earthquake (My Australian Story) by Alan Sunderland
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Category: Children's Reference | 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