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The Girl Who Said No to the Nazis by Haydn Kaye
$15.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A true story of incredible courage about how a young student and her friends stood up to fascism in Nazi Germany - part of the True Adventures series. In 1942, a young woman named Sophie Scholl arrives in Munich to begin her studies at university. Reunited with her beloved brother Hans, a medical stude ...Show more
Tell Me Why for Young Adults by Archie Roach
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography
‘There are many Australian stories, and mine is just one about what happened to me and other First Peoples of this country. It’s important for me to tell my story - because it’s not just part of my healing but of this country’s as well. We all have a story and as you read this book I would like you to t ...Show more
Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers by Michelle Obama
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
What's important is our story, our whole story, including those moments when we feel a little vulnerable . . . Michelle Robinson started life sharing a bedroom with her older brother Craig, in their family's upstairs apartment in her great-aunt's house. Her parents, Fraser and Marian, poured their love ...Show more
My Place for Younger Readers by Sally Morgan
$18.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Since its publication in 1987, Sally Morgan's My Place has sold more than half a million copies in Australia, been translated and read all over the world, and been reprinted dozens of times. Sally's rich, zesty and moving work is perhaps the best loved biography of Aboriginal Australia ever written. My ...Show more
More Than a Kick by Jennifer Castles; Tayla Harris
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In March 2019, Tayla Harris went from rising AFLW star to the face of a movement. A photo of her mighty airborne kick was viciously attacked online and Tayla chose to call out the online harassment. Six months later she was unveiling a bronze statue of her kick in the heart of Melbourne, inspiring girls ...Show more
Tim and Tigon (Young Readers version of On the Trail of Genghis Khan) by Tim Cope
$19.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Adventurer Tim Cope had a childhood dream: to travel the 10,000 kilometres from Mongolia to Hungary on horseback - a journey undertaken centuries ago by the legendary leader of the Mongols, Genghis Khan. On this journey, Tim met a dog called Tigon. For more than three years, Tim and Tigon endured searin ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #5: A Nation of Swaggies and Diggers by Jackie French
$17.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The Australian colonies had come a long way since they were a dump for grim crims and convicts. Life was comfortableat least for some. But soon drought would send swaggies waltzing their matildas along the roads, and bad times would make politicians dream of uniting the country into one nation. And then ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #6: Weevils, War and Wallabies by Jackie French
$17.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
1920-1945, an iconic period in Australian history: QANTAS founded, the Sydney Harbour Bridge built, Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup and dies in the US, Don Bradman wows the world at the wicket and becomes the main target in the Bodyline series. The Depression hits. Australia enters WW II. Aborigines lob ...Show more
My Australian Story: Who Am I? by Anita Heiss
$17.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: My Australian Story
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
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime (YA Edition) by Trevor Noah
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah, tells the story of growing up mixed race in South Africa under and after apartheid in this young readers' adaptation of his bestselling adult memoir Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood. BORN A CRIME IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ...Show more
What's the T? by Juno Dawson; Soofiya (Illustrator)
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Discover what it means to be a young transgender or non-binary person in the twenty-first century in this frank and funny guide for 14+ teens, from the author of This Book is Gay. In What's the T?, Stonewall ambassador, bestselling trans author and former PSHE teacher Juno Dawson defines a myriad of lab ...Show more
En Pointe by Chloe Bayliss
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
"Have you ever had an addiction? An obsession? Have you ever wanted something so much that you can't imagine your life without it? For me, that's dance." This is a story about never giving up on your dreams, no matter what life throws at you. Chloe Bayliss was born to perform and thanks to a lot of ha ...Show more