Browse by category
Our Race for Reconciliation (My Australian Story) by Anita Heiss
$16.98 AUD
Category: Children's Novel | Series: My Australian Story
Mel Gordon loves running, and watching Seinfeld, but mostly she loves Cathy Freeman. It's 2000 and the Olympics are going to be held in Australia. In a year of surprises, Mel finds out that Cathy Freeman is coming to talk to her school. And her family is heading to Sydney! It becomes an unforgettable jo ...Show more
Pompeii: A Roman Girl's Diary, AD 78-79 (My Story) by Sue Reid
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Novel | Series: My Story
It's August AD 78 and Claudia is at the Forum in Pompeii. It's a day of strange encounters and even odder portents. When the ground shakes Claudia is convinced it is a bad omen. What does it all mean? And why is she so disturbed by Vesuvius, the great volcano that looms over the city.
Pyramid of Secrets (My Story) by Jim Eldridge
$17.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: My Story
It's 2554BC, and Pharaoh Khafra is building a great pyramid at Giza to rival those built by his predecessors. He is also making plans for what will become one of the most famous and iconic monuments in history - the Sphinx. But Khafra has enemies and division in his workforce. Among the labourers in his ...Show more
Road to War: A First World War Girl's Diary, 1917 (My Story) by Valerie Wilding
$17.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: My Story
It's 1917 and the Great War rages in Europe. When Daffy Rowntree's brother goes missing in action, she refuses to sit safely in England, and determines to do something to help win the war. Soon she finds herself in the mud and horror of the battlefields of France, driving an ambulance transporting the w ...Show more
Six Seconds: The Newcastle Earthquake (My Australian Story) by Alan Sunderland
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Novel | Series: My Australian Story
I could hardly see. There was dust and smoke everywhere. I was falling, sliding down into a gap that had opened up between parts of the collapsed building. It was dark and silent. all I could hear was the sound of my own breathing, and my beating heart thumping in my ears. Then I heard the cry again: th ...Show more
Snatched by Pirates (My Australian Story) by Patricia Bernard
$9.99 AUD
Category: Children's Novel | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
The perahu's crew is yelling in Malay for us to stop. Samuel is shouting that they are pirates and that they will rob us. I'm hiding my diary and pencil inside my shirt ...Billy Shanghai Hamilton has been blackbirded-snatched by pirates in the Torres Strait and forced to work on a pearling boat. Greed f ...Show more
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (My Very First Story Time) by Ronne Randall
$12.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: My Very First Story Time
When the Wicked Queen finds out from her magic mirror that Snow White is the fairest in all the land, she tries her best to get rid of her. But Snow White makes friends with seven dwarfs who take her in and try to keep her safe. Will the Wicked Queen get her way in the end? It's never too early to intr ...Show more
Stories of the First World War by Jim Eldridge
$17.98 AUD
Category: Children's Novel | Series: My Story
The story of the war of 1914-1918 told through the experiences of twelve children and young people. From the efforts on the Home Front in both Britain and Germany, to the young soldiers in the trenches at the Western Front and from the horrors of Gallipoli to the naval battle of Jutland.
Stowaway to Botany Bay by Chrissie Michaels
$16.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
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 knowin ...Show more
Suffragette (My Story) by Carol Drinkwater
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Novel | Series: My Story
It's 1909. Dollie is swept up in the thrill of the campaign for Votes for Women. Against her guardian's wishes, she marches against Parliament with Emmeline Pankhurst and her fellow suffragettes. But as the movement turns violent, women are imprisoned and endangered their lives with hunger strikes.
Surviving Sydney Cove (My Australian Story) by Goldie Alexander
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Novel | Series: My Australian Story
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 dia ...Show more
Sydney Harbour Bridge (My Australian Story) by Vashti Farrer
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Novel | Series: My Australian Story
'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 ...Show more