My Australian Story

My Australian Story PDF Author: Sally Murphy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780369301963
Category : Black Saturday bushfires, 2009
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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One of a series of meticulously researched, historical novels in which each book is written in the form of a fictional diary of a young person living during an important event or time period in Australian history. Lizzie Harvey, a convict transported to Sydney Cove, is starved and overworked. She has to fetch 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 diary. But write she must. It is her only hope of reaching out to the home she has left behind, all those thousands of miles across the sea.

My Australian Story

My Australian Story PDF Author: Alan Tucker
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9781742769646
Category : Kokoda Trail (Papua New Guinea)
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Archie's two brothers are fighting in the battlefields of World War II. Des has been sent with the militia to fight in the treacherous landscape of the jungles of New Guinea against the Japanese-and his brother Harold is about to join him, after surviving the campaign in the Middle East. There is nothing between Australia and a Japanese invasion except a small band of brave soldiers, fighting rain, mud, malaria and machine guns.

My Australian Story

My Australian Story PDF Author: Sally Murphy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780369301963
Category : Black Saturday bushfires, 2009
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Book Description
One of a series of meticulously researched, historical novels in which each book is written in the form of a fictional diary of a young person living during an important event or time period in Australian history. Lizzie Harvey, a convict transported to Sydney Cove, is starved and overworked. She has to fetch 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 diary. But write she must. It is her only hope of reaching out to the home she has left behind, all those thousands of miles across the sea.

Australian Story

Australian Story PDF Author: Tania McCartney
Publisher: National Library of Australia
ISBN: 0642279047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Book Description
Once there was nothing. Then there was something . . . Come on a fascinating journey through time - from the explosive beginnings of our planet through the formation of the Australian landscape, from the deeply entrenched history of our Indigenous people to modern-day Australia. Beginning with the creation of our country's landmass and climate, 'Australian Story: An Illustrated Timeline' presents the key moments in our country's geographical, faunal and floral formation, and later human settlement. Illustrated with a striking collection of photographs and images from the NLA's digital collection, this is history for children like never before. A fascinating snapshot of our country, 'Australian Story' tells who we once were, who we are today . . . and where we are going.

Sydney Harbour Bridge

Sydney Harbour Bridge PDF Author: Vashti Farrer
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9781741699531
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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'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 soaring. Both Alice and Billy tell the story of building the spectacular Harbour Bridge which will link the north shore to the working class suburbs of the south and unify a separated city.

My Australian Story: Who Am I (new Edition)

My Australian Story: Who Am I (new Edition) PDF Author: Anita Heiss
Publisher: Omnibus Books
ISBN: 9781742769585
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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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. She hasn't seen her real mum and dad since she was taken away from them five years ago. Everyone tells her to forget about them, but she can't. She wants to find out why she was taken, and where she really belongs.

Vietnam

Vietnam PDF Author: Deborah Challinor
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
ISBN: 1925064565
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Here we are, fighting alongside the so-called mightiest nation on earth with all the firepower you could ask for—jets, B52s, tanks, gunships, arty, rockets, napalm, you name it—and the VC are creeping around with a rifle each and we still can’t beat the beggars! And it’s getting worse, not better. It’s 1969. The sixties are still swinging, man is headed for the moon and surfing-mad Davey is out to win the inaugural Newcastle Under-14 Surf Championship. But when his older brother Tom is drafted to fight in the army, the far-away war in Vietnam creates waves very close to home.

Black Sunday

Black Sunday PDF Author: Evan McHugh
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
ISBN: 1925064573
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151

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Davey 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. This story is set against the colourful world and characters of Bondi, after the Depression and just before the start of World War II, as ominous signs emerge from Europe and Jewish refugees arrive in Bondi.

My Australian Adventure

My Australian Adventure PDF Author: Robert Allan Bauer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948478014
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Book Description
Young Clarence Duval becomes the mascot for a pair of baseball teams on the 1888-1889 Spalding Tour.

Our Race for Reconciliation

Our Race for Reconciliation PDF Author: Anita Heiss
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
ISBN: 1743833385
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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It's the year 2000 and the Olympics are going to be held in Australia. In a year of surprises, Mel and her family are heading to Sydney on an unforgettable journey to Corroboree 2000, bringing together all Australians as they celebrate Australia’s Indigenous heritage and acknowledge past wrongs.

Voyage to Botany Bay

Voyage to Botany Bay PDF Author: Chrissie Michaels
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9781741699111
Category : Diary fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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I dared not move...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 so ...I was a stowaway. Julienne roams the fortress tunnels of Brest, France, cold, hungry and knowing only one thing about herself-her name. Soon she must abandon even that remnant of her identity. She becomes Jules, ship's boy, journeying to Botany Bay and beyond on a voyage of discovery for the glory of France, led by Commander Laperouse. Jules/Julienne sees new and strange things on board the Boussole, but what she would most like to discover is her own history: who is Julienne Fulbert?