Escape from Cockatoo Island

Escape from Cockatoo Island PDF Author: Yvette Poshoglian
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
ISBN: 1925064085
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123

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"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. Her windswept days are filled with sewing, washing and avoiding the girls from the Reformatory School. Sydney is rapidly growing and modernising, but Olivia can only imagine what life is like beyond the shores of Cockatoo Island. She dreams of freedom, friendship and, above all, family. Can she ever escape?"

Escape from Cockatoo Island

Escape from Cockatoo Island PDF Author: Yvette Poshoglian
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
ISBN: 1925064085
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123

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Book Description
"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. Her windswept days are filled with sewing, washing and avoiding the girls from the Reformatory School. Sydney is rapidly growing and modernising, but Olivia can only imagine what life is like beyond the shores of Cockatoo Island. She dreams of freedom, friendship and, above all, family. Can she ever escape?"

My Australian Story: Escape from Cockatoo Island

My Australian Story: Escape from Cockatoo Island PDF Author: Yvette Poshoglian
Publisher: Omnibus Books
ISBN: 9781760971274
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Book Description
It is 1879 and life in the Biloela Industrial School is tough for eleven-year-old orphan, Olivia Markham. Her windswept days are filled with sewing, washing, aimless roaming, avoiding the girls from the Reformatory School, and hoping to be apprenticed by the colony. Sydney is rapidly growing and modernising, but Olivia can only imagine what life is like beyond the shores of Cockatoo Island. She dreams of freedom, friendship and, above all, family. Can she ever escape?

Public Sydney

Public Sydney PDF Author: Philip Thalis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781876991425
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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Book Description
For the first time, see the making of Sydney and all its public buildings and places in exquisite drawings in this new book. For anyone who cares about Sydney, or cities in general -- whether a passionate city dweller, architect, landscape designer, planner, engineer or historian -- it offers a deep appreciation of the city's evolution.

Puppy Trouble (Hook Book)

Puppy Trouble (Hook Book) PDF Author: Bijal Vachharajani
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9357084746
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Amit wants a puppy. But when a pokey-bitey-chewy-peeing pup turns up, he is not sure he wants a dog any more . . .

Australia visited and revisited. A narrative of recent travels and old experiences in Victoria and New South Wales

Australia visited and revisited. A narrative of recent travels and old experiences in Victoria and New South Wales PDF Author: Samuel MOSSMAN (and BANISTER (Thomas))
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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My Australian Story The Hunt for Ned Kelly

My Australian Story The Hunt for Ned Kelly PDF Author: Sophie Masson
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
ISBN: 1921990724
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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I do not think that anyone alive in our time will ever forget Ned Kelly, no matter who might wish us to do so. I know I never shall. Was he a hero? Was he a villain? I cannot say, even now. Perhaps he was neither. But he will live in my memory forever, the dark and the bright, together. 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 Ned. Is he a hero wronged by the police, as some people say, or a cold-blooded murderer? A chance encounter will bring Jamie closer to the answer than he could ever imagine.

A Tale of Two Families

A Tale of Two Families PDF Author: Jenny Pausacker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781865048598
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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The Diary of Jan Packard, Melbourne, 1974. Jan Packard starts a diary because she's bored, but suddenly she finds there's a lot happening around her. Family, friends and neighbours all seem to be changing and doing things she had never expected. Then quiet Jan decides it's time to become involved herself. It's the 70s!

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.

Cover Title: A Different Sort of Real

Cover Title: A Different Sort of Real PDF Author: Kerry Greenwood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781865048628
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 187

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The Diary of Charlotte McKenzie, Melbourne, 1918-1919. 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 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. When it finally attacks her own family, how can Charlotte cope?

Gallipoli

Gallipoli PDF Author: Alan R. Tucker
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9781742836935
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Lying about his age and looking for adventure, 14-year-old Victor March enlists in the 10th Battalion of the AIF to fight in the Great War. Victor and his new mates, Fish, Needle and Robbo, are headed for the Gallipoli peninsula, and into battle. He is among the first soldiers to land at what will become known as Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915, and the world as he knows it is about to change. In his diary, Victor records the horrors of war, his friendships, his fears, and the story of Australia's most legendary military campaign.