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A Tale of Two Families: The Diary of Jan Packard, Melbourne 1974 by Jenny Pausacker
$9.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
Jan Packard's family and the family next door meet once a month for a barbeque. One family has a son who went to the Vietnam War; the other has a son who was a draft resister. Then...Jan's mother joins the Women's Movement...and Jan wants to play football but is rejected by the boys. It is a time of cha ...Show more
Atomic Testing - My Australian Story by Alan Tucker
$16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
The British Government's going to test atomic bombs on the Woomera Rocket Range. It's in the paper. Mum said that if she'd known they were going to test atomic bombs here, she'd never have come. What's she worried about? It's only a bomb. When the army assigns Anthony's father to work on the top secret ...Show more
Bombing of Darwin (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
$16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
"More bombs exploded and within seconds several ships were on fire. Japanese planes flew so close to me that I could not only see the red circles painted under their wings, but I could see the pilots' faces. It only took a moment." It was a moment that Tom would always remember - that morning of 19 Febr ...Show more
Bushfire: Surviving Black Saturday (My Australian Story) by Sally Murphy
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-Fiction | 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
$16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | 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
Heroes of Tobruk (My Australian Story) by David Mulligan
$16.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's True Stories | 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
Kokoda (My Australian Story) by Alan R. Tucker
$16.99 AUD
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
My Australia Story - Surviving Sydney Cove by Goldie Alexander
$16.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
Lizzie Harvey, a convict transported to Sydney Cove, is starved and overworked. She has to fetch the 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 ...Show more
My Australian Story: Black Sunday by Evan McHugh
$16.99 AUD
Category: Junior 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: Convict Girl by Chrissie Michaels
$19.95 AUD
Category: Teen True Stories | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
Almost one year ago I arrived in this colony on board an English transport. I am to leave on board a French Discovery ship ... In the Geographe's Great Cabin glass-cased insects and plant specimens cluttered every nook and cranny. At the long oak table the Commander sat writing in the ship's log. The bl ...Show more
My Australian Story: Don Bradman and Me by Peter Allen
$16.99 AUD
Category: Teen True Stories | 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