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Our Race for Reconciliation (My Australian Story) by Anita Heiss
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | 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
Peppa Pig: Daddy Pig's Fun Run (First Storybook - Board Book) by Ladybird
$10.00 AUD
Category: Board | Series: Peppa Pig: My First Storybook
Daddy Pig's Fun Run is a delightful storybook based on the award-winning television character Peppa Pig. Huff, puff! Will Peppa Pig's Daddy make it to the finish line of the fun run and raise enough money to fix the school roof? Part of the My First Storybook range, Daddy Pig's Fun Run is a colourful an ...Show more
Rum Rebellion (My Australian Story) by Libby Gleeson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Information Books | 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
Secrets and Sisterhood by Jenny Pausacker
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | 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
$18.00 AUD
Category: Biography | 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
Snatched by Pirates (My Australian Story) by Patricia Bernard
$16.99 AUD
Category: Information Books | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
The perahu's crew is yelling in Malay for us to stop. Samuel is shouting that they are pirates and that they will rob us. I'm hiding my diary and pencil inside my shirt ...Billy Shanghai Hamilton has been blackbirded-snatched by pirates in the Torres Strait and forced to work on a pearling boat. Greed f ...Show more
Snowy by Siobhan McHugh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: My Story S.
The Diary of Eva Fischer, Cabramurra, 1958-1959. Eva Fischer has moved to the top of the world - Cabramurra, the highest town in Australia. Eva feels on top of the world, too. Surrounded by people of every nationality, Eva makes new friends and tries strange foreign food, like pizza. Eva learns to ski a ...Show more
Sydney Harbour Bridge (My Australian Story) by Vashti Farrer
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: My Australian Story
'I said to Mum that the sky-workers must have really good heads for heights, but she said, Either that, or they have a family to feed and will do anything for a job that pays.' It is 1932 and Sydney has hit hard times but the construction of a bridge that will reach across the harbour is setting spirits ...Show more
The Bloody Tower: A Tudor Girl's Story 1553-1559 (My Royal Story) by Valerie Wilding
$18.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: My Royal Story
Tilly lives in turbulent times. It's the 1550s; when Queen Mary ousts Lady Jane Grey to win the throne, her executioners are kept busy. Even Princess Elizabeth is imprisoned in the Tower. As Tilly watches the plots and politics of the Tudor court unfolding, she waits for her chance to deliver a very imp ...Show more
The Contagion (My Australian Story) by Kerry Greenwood
$18.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: My Australian Story
As the horrors of the First World War are drawing to a close, a danger has arisen that will kill more people around the world that the Great War did—an influenza pandemic. Charlotte McKenzie, assisting the doctor next door, find herself experiencing at close hand the effects of this devastating disease— ...Show more
The Deadly Flu by Kerry Greenwood
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: My Australian Story
Following the horrors of the First World War, a danger arises that will kill more people around the world than the Great War itself - an influenza pandemic. Charlotte McKenzie, assisting the doctor next door, finds herself experiencing at close hand the effects of this devastating disease - and when it ...Show more
The Hunt for Ned Kelly (My Australian Story) by Sophie Masson
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: My Australian Story
North-east Victoria, 1879. Jamie Ross and his older sister Ellen are alone in the world after the death of their father. Determined to make their fortune, they head to Beechworth and straight into the midst of the search for Ned Kelly, the most notorious bushranger of all time. Jamie is fascinated by Ne ...Show more