My Australian Story: Who Am I (new Edition)

My Australian Story: Who Am I (new Edition)
Author: Anita Heiss
Publisher: Omnibus Books
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781742769585

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.

Who Am I?

Who Am I?
Author: Anita Heiss
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1925063992

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.

Australian Story

Australian Story
Author: Tania McCartney
Publisher: National Library of Australia
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2017-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0642279047

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.

Who Am I?

Who Am I?
Author: Anita Heiss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2006
Genre: Australia
ISBN: 9781865048581

YA. Mary's story, presented via her diary entries, begins at Bombaderry home for Aboriginal children. Mary has been living here since she was five, but remembers another home with her Mum and Dad and lots of brothers and sisters. Mary likes her family at Bombaderry, including her best friend Marj, and the babies she looks after, but she still misses her Mum and wonders why she doesn't come to visit. Mary's life changes again soon after the diary begins, when she is fostered by a white family. The diary follows her struggle to assimilate into the white society she finds herself living in.

Our Race for Reconciliation

Our Race for Reconciliation
Author: Anita Heiss
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2017-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1743833385

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.

I'm Australian Too

I'm Australian Too
Author: Mem Fox
Publisher: Omnibus Books
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-03
Genre: Citizenship
ISBN: 9781760276218

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?

Whoever You Are

Whoever You Are
Author: Mem Fox
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780152060664

Despite the differences between children around the world, there are similarities that join us together, such as pain, joy, and love. Inside they are the same.

One Life

One Life
Author: Kate Grenville
Publisher: Canongate Books
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2015-05-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1782116869

*NEW NOVEL RESTLESS DOLLY MAUNDER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024* FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AND WOMEN’S PRIZE-WINNING AUSTRALIAN NOVELIST Kate Grenville often takes inspiration for her fiction from her family history and this extraordinary memoir about the life of her own mother, Nance Russell, reveals why. Born to an unhappy marriage and into a deeply sexist society, Nance worked hard for everything she had, and while the world changed around her, she went on to university, opening businesses and raising a family. One Life is just as much a universal story as it is Nance’s. Beautifully captured by her daughter, it draws on the tales passed down by word of mouth, creating an evocative portrait of life in twentieth-century rural Australia and a deeply intimate and caring homage to a mother’s struggle.

Stolen

Stolen
Author: Lucy Christopher
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2014-01-07
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0545361117

A stunning debut novel with an intriguing literary hook: written in part as a letter from a victim to her abductor. Sensitive, sharp, captivating!Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty--rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar--pays for Gemma's drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And before Gemma knows what's happening, Ty takes her. Steals her away. The unknowing object of a long obsession, Gemma has been kidnapped by her stalker and brought to the desolate Australian Outback. STOLEN is her gripping story of survival, of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare--or die trying to fight it.

Sydney Harbour Bridge

Sydney Harbour Bridge
Author: Vashti Farrer
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2012
Genre: Bridges
ISBN: 9781741699531

'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.