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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Book Description
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.

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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Book Description
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.

Who Am I?

Who Am I? PDF Author: Anita Heiss
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
ISBN: 1925063992
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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Book Description
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.

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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Book Description
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.

Who Am I?

Who Am I? PDF Author: Anita Heiss
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781865048581
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 199

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YA. Mary's story, presented via her diary entries, begins at Bombaderry home for Aboriginal children. Mary has been living here since she was five, but remembers another home with her Mum and Dad and lots of brothers and sisters. Mary likes her family at Bombaderry, including her best friend Marj, and the babies she looks after, but she still misses her Mum and wonders why she doesn't come to visit. Mary's life changes again soon after the diary begins, when she is fostered by a white family. The diary follows her struggle to assimilate into the white society she finds herself living in.

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.

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.

In My Heart

In My Heart PDF Author: Jo Witek
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 164700828X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Book Description
Celebrate feelings in all their shapes and sizes in this New York Times bestselling picture book from the Growing Hearts series! Happiness, sadness, bravery, anger, shyness . . . our hearts can feel so many feelings! Some make us feel as light as a balloon, others as heavy as an elephant. In My Heart explores a full range of emotions, describing how they feel physically, inside, with language that is lyrical but also direct to empower readers to practice articulating and identifying their own emotions. With whimsical illustrations and an irresistible die-cut heart that extends through each spread, this gorgeously packaged and unique feelings book is sure to become a storytime favorite.

My Two Blankets

My Two Blankets PDF Author: Irena Kobald
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544432282
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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Book Description
When a little girl nicknamed "Cartwheel" moves to a different country with her family to be safe she has a hard time adjusting to her new home.

I'm Australian Too

I'm Australian Too PDF Author: Mem Fox
Publisher: Omnibus Books
ISBN: 9781760276218
Category : Citizenship
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Book Description
I'm Australian! How about you? Many people from many places have come across the seas, to make Australia their home. How Australian is that?

Stolen

Stolen PDF Author: Lucy Christopher
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545361117
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Book Description
A stunning debut novel with an intriguing literary hook: written in part as a letter from a victim to her abductor. Sensitive, sharp, captivating!Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty--rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar--pays for Gemma's drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And before Gemma knows what's happening, Ty takes her. Steals her away. The unknowing object of a long obsession, Gemma has been kidnapped by her stalker and brought to the desolate Australian Outback. STOLEN is her gripping story of survival, of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare--or die trying to fight it.