Author: Christobel Mattingley
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1742530052
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
War has come to Asmir's home in Sarajevo. He is torn from his father, his home and everything he has known. He becomes a refugee. This is a story of courage you will never forget.
No Gun for Asmir
Author: Christobel Mattingley
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1742530052
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
War has come to Asmir's home in Sarajevo. He is torn from his father, his home and everything he has known. He becomes a refugee. This is a story of courage you will never forget.
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1742530052
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
War has come to Asmir's home in Sarajevo. He is torn from his father, his home and everything he has known. He becomes a refugee. This is a story of courage you will never forget.
Asmir in Vienna
Author: Christobel Mattingley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140380354
Category : Bosnia
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The war in Sarajevo wrenched Asmir and his family from their homeland and worst of all from their beloved father, Muris.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140380354
Category : Bosnia
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The war in Sarajevo wrenched Asmir and his family from their homeland and worst of all from their beloved father, Muris.
Escape from Sarajevo
Author: Christobel Mattingley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140375251
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Sequel to No Guns for Asmir Asmir in ViennaUpper Primary.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140375251
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Sequel to No Guns for Asmir Asmir in ViennaUpper Primary.
My Father's Islands
Author: Christobel Mattingley
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 0642277362
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
It is the 1640s and Claesgen lives in Batavia with her stepmother, Jannetje, waiting weeks, and sometimes months, for her father, Abel Tasman, to come back from his sea voyages. When he returns, Tasman delights his young daughter with tales of treacherous oceans and relentless wild weather, hazards of unseen coral reefs and endless days of empty ocean, encountersboth friendly and hostilewith indigenous peoples, murder and theft, and the threat of smugglers and pirates. Inspired by a 1637 painting of the Tasman family by Jacob Cuyp and meticulously researched, My Fathers Islands is a fictional story told through the voice of Claesgen. Tasmans young daughters curiosity about her fathers life takes the reader on his voyage on the unchartered seas of the Pacific Ocean, in the search for unknown lands and new sources of riches for the powerful trading company, the Dutch East India Company. My FathersIslands opens up to children a significant, but little known, part of Australias historythe European discovery of parts of the Unknown South Land by the heroic explorer and navigator, Abel Janszoon Tasman.
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 0642277362
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
It is the 1640s and Claesgen lives in Batavia with her stepmother, Jannetje, waiting weeks, and sometimes months, for her father, Abel Tasman, to come back from his sea voyages. When he returns, Tasman delights his young daughter with tales of treacherous oceans and relentless wild weather, hazards of unseen coral reefs and endless days of empty ocean, encountersboth friendly and hostilewith indigenous peoples, murder and theft, and the threat of smugglers and pirates. Inspired by a 1637 painting of the Tasman family by Jacob Cuyp and meticulously researched, My Fathers Islands is a fictional story told through the voice of Claesgen. Tasmans young daughters curiosity about her fathers life takes the reader on his voyage on the unchartered seas of the Pacific Ocean, in the search for unknown lands and new sources of riches for the powerful trading company, the Dutch East India Company. My FathersIslands opens up to children a significant, but little known, part of Australias historythe European discovery of parts of the Unknown South Land by the heroic explorer and navigator, Abel Janszoon Tasman.
Chelonia Green Champion of Turtles
Author: Christobel Mattingley
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741761808
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
There in the shimmering green water lay four big oval shapes like a giant's carving dishes. They were patterned in brownish green and had five handles. Suddenly the handles stirred and the giant's carving dishes began to move! Chellie was very small when she first saw the beautiful green turtles with the scientific name so close to her own. Every year she would watch them swim in the sea and make their long journeys up the beach to lay their eggs. But one day, Chellie makes a grim and horrible discovery, a discovery that turns her life upside down and forces her to act.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741761808
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
There in the shimmering green water lay four big oval shapes like a giant's carving dishes. They were patterned in brownish green and had five handles. Suddenly the handles stirred and the giant's carving dishes began to move! Chellie was very small when she first saw the beautiful green turtles with the scientific name so close to her own. Every year she would watch them swim in the sea and make their long journeys up the beach to lay their eggs. But one day, Chellie makes a grim and horrible discovery, a discovery that turns her life upside down and forces her to act.
Essential Fiction, Stage 3
Author: Pearson Education
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 043515768X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A complete solution for literacy at Key Stage 2
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 043515768X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A complete solution for literacy at Key Stage 2
First Friend
Author: Christobel Mattingley
Publisher: Happy Cat Books (UK)
ISBN: 9781905117390
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Kerry's family has moved house and she has a new school to get used to - it's much bigger than her old one, with lots of corridors and stairs. It's not surprising she gets lost on her way back from the library. Fortunately a helpful dog appears to show her the way to the playground - where she makes lots more new friends.
Publisher: Happy Cat Books (UK)
ISBN: 9781905117390
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Kerry's family has moved house and she has a new school to get used to - it's much bigger than her old one, with lots of corridors and stairs. It's not surprising she gets lost on her way back from the library. Fortunately a helpful dog appears to show her the way to the playground - where she makes lots more new friends.
Battle Order 204
Author: Christobel Mattingley
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741761735
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
David's boyhood dreams of flying led him to England for months of training to be a bomber pilot in World War II at age 19, but his final flight was a nightmare. Seconds after the bombs were released, David was wounded in five places and his fellow pilot Dog was hit. Flying metal slashed his right knee, thigh, and shoulder; the tendons and artery in his right hand were severed; and shrapnel ripped through his thick leather helmet, fracturing his skull as his aircraft went into a dive. This riveting true story takes young people through the events of a young WWII pilot's heroic journey.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741761735
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
David's boyhood dreams of flying led him to England for months of training to be a bomber pilot in World War II at age 19, but his final flight was a nightmare. Seconds after the bombs were released, David was wounded in five places and his fellow pilot Dog was hit. Flying metal slashed his right knee, thigh, and shoulder; the tendons and artery in his right hand were severed; and shrapnel ripped through his thick leather helmet, fracturing his skull as his aircraft went into a dive. This riveting true story takes young people through the events of a young WWII pilot's heroic journey.
New Patches for Old
Author: Christobel Mattingley
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140310818
Category : Children of immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
SUMMARY: Patricia is desperately lonely and finds everything about Australia strange and different from what she was used to in England .Going to a new school makes matters worse, and the situation is unbearable until she finds unexpected friends.
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140310818
Category : Children of immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
SUMMARY: Patricia is desperately lonely and finds everything about Australia strange and different from what she was used to in England .Going to a new school makes matters worse, and the situation is unbearable until she finds unexpected friends.
The Sack
Author: Christobel Mattingley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140365580
Category : Dysfunctional families
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
When Shane's dad loses his job everything changes, slowly at first and then faster and faster. But although Shane and his family have to give up so much that is familiar, Shane finds that in their new life they still have what is most important.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140365580
Category : Dysfunctional families
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
When Shane's dad loses his job everything changes, slowly at first and then faster and faster. But although Shane and his family have to give up so much that is familiar, Shane finds that in their new life they still have what is most important.