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My Australian Story: My Father's War by Sophie Masson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | Series: My Australian Story
Marie's dad has been away for two years, fighting on the Somme battlefields in northern France. For months there has been no word from him, no letters or postcards. Marie and her mother are sick with worry, so they decide to stop waiting - and instead travel to France, to try to find out what has happen ...Show more
My Australian Story: Outback by Christine Harris
$16.99 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | Series: My Australian Story | Reading Level: 9-12
So far we'd seen emus, birds, rabbits, kangaroos, flies, even a few mosquitoes, but no humans since we left Beltana. I was beginning to feel as though this whole country was empty of human life, except for me and Chip. Jimmy Porter has moved to the middle of nowhere. His uncle's family live in a wattle- ...Show more
My Australian Story: Surviving Sydney Cove by Goldie Alexander
$18.00 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
The Diary of Elizabeth Harvey, Sydney 1790. Lizzie Harvey, a convict transported to Sydney Cove, is starving and overworked. She has to fetch the water, mend clothes, serve her Master, care for his china-doll daughter and tiptoe around his moody soldier son. She can barely find time to dream about the w ...Show more
My Australian Story: Who am I? by Anita Heiss
$16.99 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | 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 Tudor Queen; The Diary of Eva Puebla,London 1501-1513 - My Story by Alison Prince
$15.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: My Story S. | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
Eva De Puebla comes to England as lady in waiting to Catherine of Aragon, the Spanish bride of Arthur, Prince of Wales. Witness the pomp, plots and political wrangling of the Tudor court of Henry VII in her diary. In the MY STORY series.
New Gold Mountain: The Diary of Shu Gheong, Lambing Flat, New South Wales, 1860-1861 by Christopher Chen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | 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
$16.99 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | 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
Slave Girl; the Diary of Clotee, Virginia, USA 1859 by Patricia C. McKissack
$14.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: My Story S. | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
Day or two later Freedom is one of the first words I teached myself to write. Down in the Quarters people pray for freedom - they sing 'bout freedom, but to keep Mas' Henley from knowing' their true feelings, they call freedom 'heaven'. Everybody's mind is on freedom. But it is the word that aine never ...Show more
Surviving Sydney Cove: the Diary of Elizabeth Harvey, 1790 (My Story) by Goldie Alexander
$19.00 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | Series: My story
Lizzie Harvey, a convict transported to Sydney Cove, is starving 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 h ...Show more
Sydney Harbour Bridge (My Australian Story) by Vashti Farrer
$16.99 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | 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 Bombing of Darwin: The Diary of Tom Taylor by Alan Tucker
$17.99 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | Series: My Australian Story
The Hunt for Ned Kelly (My Australian Story) by Sophie Masson
$17.00 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | 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 ...Show more