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Bushfire: Surviving Black Saturday (My Australian Story) by Sally Murphy
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Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
Amy is staying in Marysville with her grandmother, and help in the garden and clean out her gutters. It is, after all, bushfire season. As summer arrives, so do the fires, and Dad is busy helping control the flames in bushfires that have started burning in Victoria. But it is early February 2009, and th ...Show more
Heroes of Tobruk (My Australian Story) by David Mulligan
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Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
It is 1940, and sixteen-year-old Peter Fullerton and his best mate Tony Cantonelli lie about their ages to enlist in the army. Tony also lies about his name - Australia is at war with Italy, and suspicion has been added to the racism he already encounters. Heroes of Tobruk follows these characters from ...Show more
Kokoda (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
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Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Its been a disastrous day. The radio news reports that HMAS Canberra has been sunk with the loss of 819 lives and Kokoda has been lost by the Australians. Who knows where Dess lot are? Somewhere on the mountain track between Kokoda and Port Moresby with the Japs hot on their heels. Harold couldnt say to ...Show more
My Australian Story: Black Sunday by Evan McHugh
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Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Nipper 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.
My Australian Story: Gallipoli by Alan Tucker
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Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
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 becom ...Show more
My Australian Story: My Father's War by Sophie Masson
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Category: Children's Fiction | 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
The Hunt for Ned Kelly (My Australian Story) by Sophie Masson
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Category: Children's Fiction | 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
The Outback (My Australian Story) by Christine Harris
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Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
The Diary of Jimmy Porter, Central Australia, 1927-1928 Jimmy Porter has moved to the middle of nowhere. His uncle's family live in a wattle-and-daub hut, days' walk away from even the nearest neighbour. Life in 1927 in the outback is tough, but the people who live there can cope with just about anythin ...Show more
The Phar Lap Mystery (My Australian Story) by Sophie Masson
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Category: Children's Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Sally's dad is a private detective, and he's just been offered the case of a lifetime - investigating who tried to shoot Phar Lap before the 1930 Melbourne Cup. Helping her dad investigate, Sally begins to feel a sense of mounting dread as Phar Lap goes from victory to victory - and collects some danger ...Show more
The Snowy (My Australian Story) by Siobhan McHugh
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Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
They had been loading the tunnel face with gelignite when the storm came over. The lightning struck the mountain and went down through an underground watercourse to the wet rockface and set off some of the charges, exploding the rock. Eva Fischer has moved to Cabramurra, the highest town in Australia. E ...Show more
Who Am I? (My Australian Story) by Anita Heiss
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Category: Young Adult | Series: My Australian Story
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
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