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My Australian Story Escape From Cockatoo Island
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Book Synopsis Escape from Cockatoo Island by : Yvette Poshoglian
Download or read book Escape from Cockatoo Island written by Yvette Poshoglian and published by Scholastic Australia. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am in the middle of Sydney Harbour, stuck on this place the masters call Cockatoo Island... I am here because I am an orphan, but I cannot help feeling like I have been sent here for doing something wrong. It is 1879 and life in the Biloela Industrial School is tough for eleven-year-old Olivia Markham. Her windswept days are filled with sewing, washing and avoiding the girls from the Reformatory School. Sydney is rapidly growing and modernising, but Olivia can only imagine what life is like beyond the shores of Cockatoo Island. She dreams of freedom, friendship and, above all, family. Can she ever escape?"
Book Synopsis My Australian Story: Escape from Cockatoo Island by : Yvette Poshoglian
Download or read book My Australian Story: Escape from Cockatoo Island written by Yvette Poshoglian and published by Omnibus Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1879 and life in the Biloela Industrial School is tough for eleven-year-old orphan, Olivia Markham. Her windswept days are filled with sewing, washing, aimless roaming, avoiding the girls from the Reformatory School, and hoping to be apprenticed by the colony. Sydney is rapidly growing and modernising, but Olivia can only imagine what life is like beyond the shores of Cockatoo Island. She dreams of freedom, friendship and, above all, family. Can she ever escape?
Book Synopsis Surviving Sydney Cove by : Goldie Alexander
Download or read book Surviving Sydney Cove written by Goldie Alexander and published by Scholastic Australia. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Australia visited and revisited. A narrative of recent travels and old experiences in Victoria and New South Wales by : Samuel MOSSMAN (and BANISTER (Thomas))
Download or read book Australia visited and revisited. A narrative of recent travels and old experiences in Victoria and New South Wales written by Samuel MOSSMAN (and BANISTER (Thomas)) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Sydney written by Philip Thalis and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, see the making of Sydney and all its public buildings and places in exquisite drawings in this new book. For anyone who cares about Sydney, or cities in general -- whether a passionate city dweller, architect, landscape designer, planner, engineer or historian -- it offers a deep appreciation of the city's evolution.
Book Synopsis My Australian Story The Hunt for Ned Kelly by : Sophie Masson
Download or read book My Australian Story The Hunt for Ned Kelly written by Sophie Masson and published by Scholastic Australia. This book was released on 2010-01-02 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I do not think that anyone alive in our time will ever forget Ned Kelly, no matter who might wish us to do so. I know I never shall. Was he a hero? Was he a villain? I cannot say, even now. Perhaps he was neither. But he will live in my memory forever, the dark and the bright, together. 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 Ned. Is he a hero wronged by the police, as some people say, or a cold-blooded murderer? A chance encounter will bring Jamie closer to the answer than he could ever imagine.
Author :Bijal Vachharajani Publisher :Penguin Random House India Private Limited ISBN 13 :9357084746 Total Pages :42 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (57 download)
Book Synopsis Puppy Trouble (Hook Book) by : Bijal Vachharajani
Download or read book Puppy Trouble (Hook Book) written by Bijal Vachharajani and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2024-05-06 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amit wants a puppy. But when a pokey-bitey-chewy-peeing pup turns up, he is not sure he wants a dog any more . . .
Download or read book The Big Tidy-Up written by Norah Smaridge and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her mother refuses to clean her room until after Christmas, Jennifer at first doesn't mind all of the mess and clutter, but after a while the room makes her feel gloomy, so she decides to do something about it.
Download or read book Who Am I? written by Anita Heiss and published by Scholastic Australia. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady by : Carol Baxter
Download or read book Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady written by Carol Baxter and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the gentleman bushranger ... she was the woman who rode with him. Full of action and drama, this is the richly detailed and unputdownable true story of Captain Thunderbolt and his lady.
Download or read book Gallipoli written by Alan R. Tucker and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 become known as Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915, and the world as he knows it is about to change. In his diary, Victor records the horrors of war, his friendships, his fears, and the story of Australia's most legendary military campaign.
Book Synopsis The Christmas Surprise by : Yvette Poshoglian
Download or read book The Christmas Surprise written by Yvette Poshoglian and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Ella and Olivia. Big sister. Little sister. Best friends. Ella and Olivia are sisters. Ella is seven years old. Olivia is five-and-a-half years old. They live with their mum and dad and little brother Max. Ella and Olivia can't wait until Christmas! But will their secret plan to open their presents early ruin the Christmas surprise?
Book Synopsis A Tale of Two Families by : Jenny Pausacker
Download or read book A Tale of Two Families written by Jenny Pausacker and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diary of Jan Packard, Melbourne, 1974. Jan Packard starts a diary because she's bored, but suddenly she finds there's a lot happening around her. Family, friends and neighbours all seem to be changing and doing things she had never expected. Then quiet Jan decides it's time to become involved herself. It's the 70s!
Book Synopsis Sydney Harbour Bridge by : Vashti Farrer
Download or read book Sydney Harbour Bridge written by Vashti Farrer and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I said to Mum that the sky-workers must have really good heads for heights, but she said, "Either that, or they have a family to feed and will do anything for a job that pays."' It is 1932 and Sydney has hit hard times but the construction of a bridge that will reach across the harbour is setting spirits soaring. Both Alice and Billy tell the story of building the spectacular Harbour Bridge which will link the north shore to the working class suburbs of the south and unify a separated city.
Book Synopsis Cover Title: A Different Sort of Real by : Kerry Greenwood
Download or read book Cover Title: A Different Sort of Real written by Kerry Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diary of Charlotte McKenzie, Melbourne, 1918-1919. As the horrors of the First World War are drawing to a close, a danger has arisen that will kill more people around the world than the Great War itself - an influenza pandemic. Charlotte McKenzie, assisting the doctor next door, finds herself experiencing at close hand the effects of this devastating disease. When it finally attacks her own family, how can Charlotte cope?
Download or read book Pony Problem written by Yvette Poshoglian and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ella's friend Zoe is entering an equestrian competition. She invites Ella along to help her groom her horse, Hattie. But Ella has other plans! She ends up entering the pony competition-by accident!
Book Synopsis Archer's Melbourne Cup by : Vashti Farrer
Download or read book Archer's Melbourne Cup written by Vashti Farrer and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1861 and a major horse race is about to be run for the first time-the Melbourne Cup. Thirteen-year-old Robby Jenkins is working as a stablehand, and is convinced that his favourite horse, Archer, can win. Archer's Melbourne Cup tells the story of how one of Australia's iconic events began. It is also the story of a boy who dreams of being a top jockey-but does he have what it takes?
