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Bushfire: Surviving Black Saturday (My Australian Story) by Sally Murphy
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Category: 10+ Years Junior Readers | 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
Cyclone Tracy (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
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Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
Darwin is almost completely destroyed; buildings, shops, houses, cars. Whole streets are gone, even the signposts. And now the people are going. Evacuations started today. Ryan just wants to hang out with his mates, go fishing and avoid being hassled by his dad, the super-strict deputy principal. But tr ...Show more
Kokoda (My Australian Story) by Alan R. Tucker
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Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
In his diary, Archie records his own battles at home, against the local bully Beefy; how Townsville copes as it becomes a base for the Pacific campaign; and the Australian east coast reels under Japanese bombs. Archie's two brothers are fighting in the battlefield of World War II. There is nothing betwe ...Show more
Kokoda (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
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Category: 10+ Years Junior Readers | 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: ATOMIC TESTING by TUCKER,ALAN
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Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
When the army assigns Anthony's father to work on the top secret atomic testing project in outback South Australia, the family relocates from Townsville to Woomera. The controversial rocket and munitions testing captures Anthony's imagination. But is it really as safe as the government says?
Melting Pot by Christopher Cheng
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Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
The year is 1901 and Australia is about to become its own country, forging a new identify of Great Britain, with it own governing body that unites the independent colonies as one nation. This is the diary of Chek Chee, a Chinese boy living in Sydney; but life for this boy is unusually different. Ages 10 ...Show more
My Australian Story: Fremantle Prison Break by Deborah Lisson
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Category: 10+ Years Junior Readers | Series: My Australian Story
If Captain Anthony and his friends are smugglers, surely they would be smuggling stuff into the Colony, yet they were talking about taking them off in a whaleboat. What on earth would you want to smuggle out of Western Australia? Thomas Morris thinks something most mysterious is going on in Bunbury wher ...Show more
My Australian Story: Gallipoli by Alan Tucker
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Category: 10+ Years Junior Readers | 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: 10+ Years Junior Readers | 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
My Australian Story: Surviving Sydney Cove by Goldie Alexander
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The Diary of Elizabeth Harvey, Sydney 1790. Lizzie Harvey, a convict transported to Sydney Cove, is starving and overworked. She has to fetch the water, mend clothes, serve her Master, care for his china-doll daughter and tiptoe around his moody soldier son. She can barely find time to dream about the w ...Show more
New Gold Mountain (My Australian Story) by Christopher Cheng
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Shu Cheong works on the goldfields at Lambing Flat. Life is tough, and there are many white settlers who are anything but friendly. It is 1860, and the white miners' behaviour towards the Chinese is becoming more and more violent. Shu Cheong witnesses increasing hatred and brutality towards his people.. ...Show more
New Gold Mountain: The Diary of Shu Gheong, Lambing Flat, New South Wales, 1860-1861 by Christopher Chen
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Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
Shu Cheong works on the goldfields at Laming Flat. Life is tough, and there are many white settlers who are anything but friendly. It is 1860, and the white miners' behaviour towards the Chinese is becoming more and more violent. Shu Cheong witnesses increasing hatred and brutality towards his people, b ...Show more