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AUSTRALIANA FICTION - MY AUSTRALIAN STORY SERIES
RRP $16.00. A wonderful series looking at highlights of Aussie history in a diary form. Suit 10+
Surviving Sydney Cove: The Diary Of Elizabeth Harvey – Sydney, 1790 $8 PB EC Lizzie Harvey, a convict transported to Sydney Cove, is starving and overworked. She has to fetch the water, mend clothes, serve 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 diary. But write she must. It is her only hope of reaching out to the home she has left behind, all those thousands of miles away across the sea. http://www.bookworm.com.au/shop/scditem.asp?ProdID=23804
A Banner Bold: The Diary Of Rosa Aarons – Ballarat Goldfields, 1854 $9 HB EC, $8 PB VGC, $7 PB GC (Cover creases) In 1854, Rosa Aarons travelled with her family from London to the diggings on the Ballarat goldfield, where she met the Governor of the Colony, the leader of the diggers, Lady Macbeth, and a dog called Bonaparte. This is how Rosa would sum up what she learned in her first year in Victoria: Ships - How to explore them. Horses - How to ride them. Parents - How to understand them. Latin - How to speak it. Gold - How to pan for it. Friends - How to get to know them. Secrets - How to keep them. School - How to tolerate it. Stars - How to wish on them. Snakes - How to avoid them. History - How to make it. http://www.bookworm.com.au/shop/scditem.asp?ProdID=22178
New Gold Mountain: The Diary of Shu Cheong – Lambing Flat, NSW, 1860-1861 $9 HB VGC 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. But he also learns the value of true friendship. http://www.papertigers.org/reviews/USA/papertigers/NewGoldMountain.html
Archer’s Melbourne Cup: The Diary of Robby Jenkins, Terara, NSW, 1860-1861 $9 HB EC The year is 1861 and a major horse race is about to be run for the first time-the Melbourne Cup. Thirteen-year-old Robby Jenkins is working as a stable hand, and is convinced that his favourite horse, Archer, can win. Archer's Melbourne Cup tells the story of how one of Australia's iconic events began. It is also the story of a boy who dreams of being a top jockey-but does he have what it takes? http://images.berkelouw.com.au/large/9/7/8/1/8/6/5/0/4/9/4/1/0/9781865049410.jpg
The Yankee Whaler – The Diary Of Thomas Morris Bunbury W.A. 1876 $8 PB EC Thomas Morris thinks something most mysterious is going on in Bunbury where he delivers telegraphs. In his diary Tom records the exciting adventures he has as he tries to solve the mystery and finds himself part of an amazing international plot. http://www.wardsagar.com.au/catalogue/c2632/p25997/image/?size=200x200&helper=1175059609.02
Riding With Thunderbolt – The Diary Of Ben Cross, Northern NSW, 1865 $8 PB EC When Ben Cross runs away from his brutal uncle, he is looking for adventure. But he finds much more than that when he joins the bushranger Thunderbolt and becomes 'cockatoo' - or lookout - for the bushranger's gang. In between raiding cattle stations, inns, stores and mail coaches, Ben befriends Thunderbolt's wife, Mary Ann, helping in her endless hunt for food and hiding places in the wilderness. But at the end of a year of running from the law, of dramatic rescue and desperate shootouts, both Ben and Thunderbolt know they must give up the bushranging life. http://www.bookworm.com.au/Book/Riding-with-Thunderbolt-The-Diary-of-Ben-Cross-Northern-New-South-Wales-1865-9781865045801.aspx
Plagues And Federation: The Diary Of Kitty Barnes – The Rocks, Sydney, 1900 $8 PB EC The year 1900 was a momentous one for Kitty Barnes. Bubonic plague, the Black Death, was killing large numbers of people; the country was on the verge of becoming a federation; Kitty's brother was in Africa fighting in the Boer War; and Kitty was finding herself somewhat attracted to Reggie, the boy down the road. http://www.bookworm.com.au/shop/scditem.asp?ProdID=23805
A Different Sort Of Real – The Diary Of Charlotte McKenzie, Melbourne 1918-1919 $8 PB EC, $3 PB GC (Ex lib – has a page starting to come loose from binding) Sixteen year old Charlotte becomes the local doctor's assistant in Melbourne, during the terrible Spanish flu epidemic after the first World War. 10+ http://www.leatherwoodbooks.com.au/show.php?f=getcat&id=9
Fords And Flying Machines: The Diary Of Jack McLaren – Longreach, 1919-1921 $8 PB EC Jack McLaren's dream is to be an automobile mechanic. When his uncle offers him an apprenticeship in Longreach, Jack jumps at the chance. Little does Jack know that his long trip to central Queensland will be the start of a whole new dream. Jack is soon on the first automobile ever to travel the Gulf Track from Longreach to Katherine. With him are two World War I pilots with dreams of their own. After weeks of breakdowns, broken axles, crocodiles and snakes, all agree that there are easier ways to cross the Australian outback. The Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service is about to be born. http://www.bookworm.com.au/shop/scditem.asp?ProdID=22986
Outback: The Diary of Jimmy Porter, Central Australia, 1927-1928 $9 HB EC Jimmy has moved to stay with relatives in central Australia. Outback life in 1927 is tough and communication with anywhere else is nonexistent. But he gradually begins to appreciate the beauty of the outback and the resilient people living there and when disaster strikes he witnesses the importance of the Flying Doctor. http://images.borders.com.au/images/bau/97818650/9781865048505/0/0/plain/outback-the-diary-of-jimmy-porter.jpg
Our Don Bradman – The Diary Of Victor McDonald, Sydney, 1932 $8 PB EC 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 life in inner Sydney, Victor not only sees Don Bradman in action, he even gets to meet him. With the England cricket team coming to Australia, Victor knows it's going to be a great cricket season. But England has some nasty surprises in store. This will be one cricket season the Australians - and Victor - will never forget. http://www.bookworm.com.au/Book/Our-Don-Bradman-The-Diary-of-Victor-McDonald-9781865045917.aspx
Who Am I?: The Diary Of Mary Talence – Sydney, 1937 $8 PB EC Mary was taken to Bomaderry Aboriginal Children's Home when she was only five years old. Now she's ten years old and living with a white family in Sydney. She doesn't fit in and starts to question why. http://www.bookworm.com.au/shop/scditem.asp?ProdID=22523
The Bombing Of Darwin: The Diary Of Tom Taylor – Darwin, 1942 $9 HB EC, $8 PB EC It only took a moment. It was a moment that Tom would always remember - that morning of 19 February 1942, when everything changed…changed from peace to war. When fourteen-year-old Tom Taylor moves to Darwin with his family, he hardly guesses that tragedy will soon change his life forever. Although Tom helps to dig slit trenches, and though the Japanese edge closer through Malaysia and Singapore, the war seems far away. http://www.bookworm.com.au/shop/scditem.asp?ProdID=22985
Snowy: The
Diary Of Eva Fischer – Cabramurra, 1958-1959
$8 PB VGC Eva Fischer has
moved to the top of the world - Cabramurra, the highest town in Australia. Eva
feels on top of the world, too. Surrounded by people of every nationality, Eva
makes new friends, and tries strange foreign food - like pizza.
Eva learns to ski and ride, and even learns that being half German maybe isn't
so bad after all. But all around her, momentous things are happening. The Snowy
Mountains Scheme is underway, huge dams have been built, tunnels constructed,
homes abandoned, people lost…
http://www.bookworm.com.au/shop/scditem.asp?ProdID=22988
Cyclone Tracy: The Diary of Ryan Turner - Darwin, 1974 $9 HB EC A fictionalised account of events leading up to, during and after the devastation wrought by Cyclone Tracy on Christmas Eve, 1974. The narrator, fourteen year old Ryan, shares his perspective of life in Darwin prior to the event – fishing, school, going to the movies and so on - and after the cyclone gives his first hand account of the horror of the cyclone. http://www.borders.com.au/book/cyclone-tracy-the-diary-of-ryan-turner-darwin-1974/5977862/
A Tale Of Two Families: The Diary Of Jan Packard – Melbourne, 1974 $9 HB EC, $8 PB EC, $6 PB GC Jan Packard starts a diary because she is bored…and suddenly she finds there is such a lot happening around her. Family, friends and neighbours all seem to be changing and doing things she had never expected. Then quiet Jan decides it's time to become involved herself. It's the 70s! http://www.bookworm.com.au/shop/scditem.asp?ProdID=22522
(Last update February, 2012)
