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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 Australian Story by : Tania McCartney
Download or read book Australian Story written by Tania McCartney and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once there was nothing. Then there was something . . . Come on a fascinating journey through time - from the explosive beginnings of our planet through the formation of the Australian landscape, from the deeply entrenched history of our Indigenous people to modern-day Australia. Beginning with the creation of our country's landmass and climate, 'Australian Story: An Illustrated Timeline' presents the key moments in our country's geographical, faunal and floral formation, and later human settlement. Illustrated with a striking collection of photographs and images from the NLA's digital collection, this is history for children like never before. A fascinating snapshot of our country, 'Australian Story' tells who we once were, who we are today . . . and where we are going.
Book Synopsis My Australian Story by : Sally Murphy
Download or read book My Australian Story written by Sally Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of a series of meticulously researched, historical novels in which each book is written in the form of a fictional diary of a young person living during an important event or time period in Australian history. 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.
Download or read book Kokoda written by Alan Tucker and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 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 Des's lot are? Somewhere on the mountain track between Kokoda and Port Moresby with the Japs hot on their heels. Harold couldn't say too much in his latest letter, but it sounds like his division is moving to New Guinea too. In his diary, Archie records his own battles at home, against the local bully, Beefy; and 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 battlefields of World War II. Des has been sent with the militia to fight in the treacherous landscape of the jungles of New Guinea against the Japanese-and his brother Harold is about to join him, after surviving the campaign in the Middle East. There is nothing between Australia and a Japanese invasion except a small band of brave soldiers, fighting rain, mud, malaria and machine guns.
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 176 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 My Australian Story: Who Am I (new Edition) by : Anita Heiss
Download or read book My Australian Story: Who Am I (new Edition) written by Anita Heiss and published by Omnibus Books. This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 208 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 My Australian Story: Gallipoli by : Alan Tucker
Download or read book My Australian Story: Gallipoli written by Alan Tucker and published by Scholastic Australia. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The attack has been timed to the minute. Thirty minutes from now we’ll climb down the rope ladders in to the lighters and find our seat. I’m one of the lucky ones. I’ve been chosen as one of the 500 men from my battalion who will be in the first wave to land … The Turks won’t know what’s hit them … Two miles inland is our goal. 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 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 Our Race for Reconciliation by : Anita Heiss
Download or read book Our Race for Reconciliation written by Anita Heiss and published by Scholastic Australia. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the year 2000 and the Olympics are going to be held in Australia. In a year of surprises, Mel and her family are heading to Sydney on an unforgettable journey to Corroboree 2000, bringing together all Australians as they celebrate Australia’s Indigenous heritage and acknowledge past wrongs.
Download or read book Our Don Bradman written by Peter Allen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 life in inner Sydney, Victor not only sees Don Bradman in action, he even gets to meet him. With the England cricket team coming to Australia, Victor knows it's going to be a great cricket season. But England has some nasty surprises in store. This will be one cricket season the Australians - and Victor - will never forget.
Book Synopsis Voyage to Botany Bay by : Chrissie Michaels
Download or read book Voyage to Botany Bay written by Chrissie Michaels and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I dared not move...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 so ...I was a stowaway. Julienne roams the fortress tunnels of Brest, France, cold, hungry and knowing only one thing about herself-her name. Soon she must abandon even that remnant of her identity. She becomes Jules, ship's boy, journeying to Botany Bay and beyond on a voyage of discovery for the glory of France, led by Commander Laperouse. Jules/Julienne sees new and strange things on board the Boussole, but what she would most like to discover is her own history: who is Julienne Fulbert?
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 165 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.
Download or read book I'm Australian Too written by Mem Fox and published by Omnibus Books. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm Australian! How about you? Many people from many places have come across the seas, to make Australia their home. How Australian is that?
Book Synopsis My Australian Adventure by : Robert Allan Bauer
Download or read book My Australian Adventure written by Robert Allan Bauer and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Clarence Duval becomes the mascot for a pair of baseball teams on the 1888-1889 Spalding Tour.
Book Synopsis Surviving Maggie by : John Fingleton
Download or read book Surviving Maggie written by John Fingleton and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful true story of a man who would inspire one son to make a film about him, starring Geoffrey Rush, and the other to uncover his past, warts and all, in this unforgettable tale. "My father was no ordinary man and his was no ordinary life ..." Watching Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush portray his father in the film Swimming Upstream inspired John Fingleton to uncover the story no one had told, of his father's mysterious early life - and what made Harold the extraordinary man he became. Nothing could have prepared him for what he discovered. Harold spent his early childhood on the streets foraging for food for himself and his sister and being beaten for his trouble by his alcoholic mother. then, at eleven, Harold was removed to a state orphanage in Brisbane, where the treatment he and others endured haunted him forever. From abused child to rebellious orphan, Harold Fingleton played many roles in his life - larrikin street fighter, gifted sportsman, prisoner, alcoholic, football coach to a bunch of street kids, even a murder suspect - but, most importantly, a man transformed by the love of a strong woman into a father determined his children would have the opportunities he never had. A powerful true story of love, betrayal and redemption, Surviving Maggie will stay with you long after the last page. 'After forty years of bookselling, this book punched holes in me. Like ANGELA'S ASHES, no one who reads this story will ever forget it.' Phil Ryan (veteran bookseller, formerly of Mary Ryans)
Download or read book Black Sunday written by Evan McHugh and published by Scholastic Australia. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davey 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. This story is set against the colourful world and characters of Bondi, after the Depression and just before the start of World War II, as ominous signs emerge from Europe and Jewish refugees arrive in Bondi.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories by : Michael Wilding
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories written by Michael Wilding and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 49 stories ranging over 120 years. Stories reflect life in Australia from the early days of hardship to the recognition of a multicultural society and the new agendas for women's, gay and lesbian, and Aboriginal writing.
Book Synopsis 9/11 and the Art of Happiness by : Simon Kennedy
Download or read book 9/11 and the Art of Happiness written by Simon Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 11 September 2001, Australian Yvonne Kennedy boarded American Airlines flight 77 to return to Australia after a US holiday. That day has since been seared into our consciousness. Her flight was hijacked and deliberately crashed into the Pentagon. All passengers on board were killed. Yvonne's death left her family devastated. In 9/11 and the A...
