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Stowaway to Botany Bay by Chrissie Michaels
$16.99 AUD
Category: MIDDLE FICTION | 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
Taronga (Australian Children's Classics) by Victor Kelleher
$19.99 AUD
Category: MIDDLE FICTION | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
"The great dome of the sky, black, star-sprinkled, arched above him, appearing at that moment so limitless, so vast and free, that the fences and cages of Taronga were dwarfed, reduced to the point where they barely seemed to exist." Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving ...Show more
The Alice Stories 1918: Our Australian Girl (4 book bind-up) (HB) by Davina Bell; Lucia Masciullo (Illustrator)
$26.99 AUD
Category: MIDDLE FICTION | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1918 Ser.
Four stories in one, all about Alice, a WWI-era girl who dreams of becoming a ballerina It's 1918 and Alice's deepest wish is to be a professional ballerina. But as World War One tears her family apart, a battle is being fought in her heart. Can Alice keep everyone together and still make her dreams ...Show more
The Australian Integrated School Dictionary and Thesaurus 3rd edition by Oxford Dictionary
$37.50 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Dictionaries/Thesauruses/Reference Ser.
Edited at the Australian National Dictionary Centre in Canberra, this innovative reference book is a dictionary and thesaurus in a single, easy-to-use volume.This new edition contains:Hundreds of new and revised entriesA new grammar and reference guide aligned to the Australian Curriculum - EnglishA new ...Show more
The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell
$14.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Classics Series
For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey - the international bestseller - an explosive novel of sex, secrecy and escape. 'You've never been in control, until now; you've never, before, had exactly what you want...The lights turned off. A touch that's gentle, slow, provocative, that builds you up, that makes you ...Show more
The Devil's Playground by Christos Tsiolkas
$16.99 AUD
Category: YOUNG ADULT FICTION | Series: Australian Screen Classics S.
Fred Schepisi's film, 'The Devil's Playground' is an intimate portrait of Tom, a thirteen-year-old struggling in spirit and body with the constraints of living in a Catholic seminary. It is also the story of the Brothers and how they cope with the demands of their faith. Made in 1976, this semi-autobiog ...Show more
The Harp In The South - Penguin Australian Classics by Ruth Park
$19.99 AUD
Category: ADULT FICTION | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of inner-city Surry Hills, money is scarce and life is not easy. Crammed together within the thin walls of Twelve-and-a-Half Plymouth Street are the Darcy family: Mumma, loving and softhearted; Hughie, her drunken husband; pipe-smoking Grandma; ...Show more
The Hunt for Ned Kelly (My Australian Story) by Sophie Masson
$16.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
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 ...Show more
The Industrial Revolution and its Impact on Australia by Joseph Harding
$19.95 AUD
Category: INT Books | Series: Australian Society
This is the history of India since before written records, through to being the worlds largest democracy today. It shows how empires rose and fell and how India became the centrepiece of British colonialism and the legacy that has left. Also covers Australias relationship with India.
The Man from Snowy River by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Annette MacArthur-Onslow (Illustrator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: PICTURE BOOKS | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson were writing for the Sydney Bulletin' in 1892 when they decided to have a duel of poetry. The idea was to increase the number of poems they could sell to the paper. It began in fun but later became bitter. Paterson wrote many poems and stories about his travels in the Out ...Show more
The Rainbow Serpent by Dick Roughsey
$14.99 AUD
Category: PICTURE BOOKS | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
A timeless classic from the Dreamtime. there are innumerable names and stories associated with the Rainbow Serpent, all of which communicate the significance of this being within Aboriginal traditions. Dreamtime stories tell how the Rainbow Serpent came from beneath the ground and created huge ridges, m ...Show more
The Rainbow Serpent 50th Anniversary Edition (HB) by Dick Roughsey
$25.00 AUD
Category: PICTURE BOOKS | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
Celebrating fifty years - a timeless classic from the Dreamtime. Dreamtime stories tell how the Rainbow Serpent came from beneath the ground and created huge ridges, mountains and gorges as it pushed upward. The name also reflects the snake-like meandering of water across a landscape and the colour spec ...Show more