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Escape from Cockatoo Island (My Australian Story) by Yvette Poshoglian
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | 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
Fords and Flying Machines by Patricia Bernard
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: My Story S.
Jack McLaren accompanies Hudson Fysh and Paul McGuiness on their historic 2170 km trek from Longreach, Qld to Katherine in the NT. They are surveying the country for a suitable landing field for what they hope will be an England-to-Australia flight. Age 10+
Hanna (My Holocaust Story) by Goldie Alexander
$16.99 AUD
Category: Y.A 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
Henry VIII's Wives (My Royal Story) by Alison Prince
$18.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: My Royal Story
The court of King Henry VIII is brought brilliantly to life in this My Story special. Spanning a period of 20 years, the fates of all Henry's six wives are told from the perspective of two young courtiers serving at the royal palaces at different periods.
Heroes of Tobruk (My Australian Story) by David Mulligan
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | 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
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | 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
$18.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | 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
Mary Queen of Scots (My Royal Story) by Kathryn Lasky
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: My Royal Story
At just 11 years old, the young princess Mary is sent from her native Scotland to live in the court of her future father-in-law, King Henry-II of France. She spends her time attending balls, hunting and hawking, learning Latin and fractions and music, and playing with her future husband, Francis. But al ...Show more
My Australia Story - Surviving Sydney Cove by Goldie Alexander
$16.99 AUD
Category: Information Books | 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
My Australian Story: Banner Bold by Nadia Wheatley
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
Something is happening. I can hear bullets going off, and people are running down towards the Eureka field ...In 1854 Rosa Aarons and her family travel from London to the goldfield at Ballarat. She makes new friends, learns to ride a horse, and helps her family get by. Soon Rosa becomes caught up in one ...Show more
My Australian Story: Black Sunday by Evan McHugh
$16.99 AUD
Category: Y.A 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: Convict Girl by Chrissie Michaels
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
Almost one year ago I arrived in this colony on board an English transport. I am to leave on board a French Discovery ship ... In the Geographe's Great Cabin glass-cased insects and plant specimens cluttered every nook and cranny. At the long oak table the Commander sat writing in the ship's log. The bl ...Show more