Yankee Whaler: My Story by Deborah Lisson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: My story
Thomas dreams of escaping his bleak life in a small town and becoming a world-famous journalist. Guided by his adventurous spirit and insatiable curiosity, he smuggles himself aboard an American whaling ship, and finds himself caught up in one of the most daring escape plans in Australian history.
Egyptian Princess: Princess Hatshepsut's Diary 1490BC (My Royal Story) by Vince Cross
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: My Royal Story
In 1490 BC Asha, daughter of King Tuthmosis lives a carefree life at the royal court in Thebes. But when a prophecy foretells that 'a young woman will prove to be the best man in the Two Kingdom' she's caught up in a world of plots and danger...
Secrets and Sisterhood by Jenny Pausacker
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: My Australian Story
Jan Packard starts a diary because she is bored, but she suddenly finds there is a lot happening around her. Everyone seems to be changing and doing things she never expected. Her mum is attending consciousness-raising meetings, her best friend has gone boy-crazy, she discovers her older brother was a d ...Show more
The Deadly Flu by Kerry Greenwood
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: My Australian Story
Following the horrors of the First World War, a danger arises 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 - and when it ...Show more
New Gold Mountain (My Australian Story) by Christopher Cheng
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: My Australian Story
Shu Cheong works on the goldfields at Lambing Flat. Life is tough, and there are many white settlers who are anything but friendly. It is 1860, and the white miners' behaviour towards the Chinese is becoming more and more violent. Shu Cheong witnesses increasing hatred and brutality towards his people.. ...Show more
The Phar Lap Mystery (My Australian Story) by Sophie Masson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: My Australian Story
Sally's dad is a private detective, and he's just been offered the case of a lifetime - investigating who tried to shoot Phar Lap before the 1930 Melbourne Cup. Helping her dad investigate, Sally begins to feel a sense of mounting dread as Phar Lap goes from victory to victory - and collects some danger ...Show more
My Australian Story: Our Don Bradman by Peter Allen
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | 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
Cyclone Tracy (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | 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
My Australian Story: Who am I? by Anita Heiss
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | 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 Australian Story: Melting Pot by Christopher Cheng
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: My Australian Story
Edward, Check Chee, lives with his parents above their store in Sydney's Chinatown. His mother is English, his father is Chinese, and Edward is trying to work out where he fits in. He's not the only one - the new White Australia policy is making it harder for Chinese people to settle in Australia, and t ...Show more
My Australian Story: Refugee by Alan Sunderland
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
I heard the voice of my father, arguing with the Taliban. I couldn't make out what he was saying, but I could tell he was angry, and then I could tell they were all angry. My uncle has told me that the Taliban pass through all the villages in our valley, and they take boys like me to fight with them. Al ...Show more
My Australian Story: Outback by Christine Harris
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | 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