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My Australian Story: Don Bradman and Me by Peter Allen
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children/Teenage Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
The Don is my hero because he is the greatest batsman in the world. Dad says all Australians are proud of The Don, even those who don't normally follow cricket. He says The Don is an inspiration to everyone, because whenever he gets a big score, people smile and forget about their troubles. There are lo ...Show more
My Australian Story: Fords and Flying Machines by Patricia Barnard
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children/Teenage Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
George thinks Mr McGinness and Mr Fysh are too cocky and too flaming young. But I reckon if you've been to war, flown flying machines and shot guns at other flying machines...then you can't be too young for anything. Jack McLaren's dream is to be an automobile mechanic. When his uncle offers him an ap ...Show more
My Australian Story: Fremantle Prison Break by Deborah Lisson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
Thomas Morris thinks something most mysterious is going on in Bunbury where he delivers telegraphs: some telegraphs carry cryptic messages and there are strangers in town acting in an oddly inconsistent manner. In his diary, Tom records the exciting adventures he has as he tries to solve the mystery and ...Show more
My Australian Story: Gallipoli by Alan Tucker
$16.98 AUD
Category: Children's Non 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
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non 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
My Australian Story: Our Don Bradman by Peter Allen
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Victor McDonald is cricket mad. He plays for his school team and his dream is to meet his cricketing hero, Don Bradman. But Australia is in the grip of the Great Depression. Work isn't easy to come by. Victor's father has lost his job and the family is moving to Sydney. Despite the daily struggle of lif ...Show more
My Australian Story: Outback by Christine Harris
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
So far we'd seen emus, birds, rabbits, kangaroos, flies, even a few mosquitoes, but no humans since we left Beltana. I was beginning to feel as though this whole country was empty of human life, except for me and Chip. Jimmy Porter has moved to the middle of nowhere. His uncle's family live in a wattle- ...Show more
My Australian Story: Voyage to Botany Bay by Chrissie Michaels
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
I dared not moveE 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 soE I was a stowaway. Julienne roams the fortress tunnels of Brest, France, cold, hungry and knowing on ...Show more
My Australian Story: Who am I? by Anita Heiss
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
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
My Friend, the Enemy by Jenny Blackman
$9.99 AUD
$16.99 (41% off)
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
It is 1915 and Australia is involved in the Great War. Young Australian men are dying in the trenches of Europe. The village of Wirreebilla in the Adelaide Hills seems peaceful and far away...but is it really so peaceful? German settlers are being treated increasingly as aliens by Wirreebilla locals, an ...Show more
Our Don Bradman by ALLEN Peter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Australia is in the grip of the Great Depression. Victor's father has lost his job and the family is moving to Sydney. Victor not only sees Don Bradman in action, he even gets to meet him. The English cricket team is coming to Australia so it's going to be a great season. But England has some nasty surp ...Show more
Our Race for Reconciliation (My Australian Story) by Anita Heiss
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Mel Gordon loves running, and watching Seinfeld, but mostly she loves Cathy Freeman. It's 2000 and the Olympics are going to be held in Australia. In a year of surprises, Mel finds out that Cathy Freeman is coming to talk to her school. And her family is heading to Sydney! It becomes an unforgettable jo ...Show more