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Atomic Testing - My Australian Story by Alan Tucker
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Category: History | Series: My Australian Story
The British Government's going to test atomic bombs on the Woomera Rocket Range. It's in the paper. Mum said that if she'd known they were going to test atomic bombs here, she'd never have come. What's she worried about? It's only a bomb. When the army assigns Anthony's father to work on the top secret ...Show more
Bombing of Darwin (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
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Category: Australiana | Series: My Australian Story
"More bombs exploded and within seconds several ships were on fire. Japanese planes flew so close to me that I could not only see the red circles painted under their wings, but I could see the pilots' faces. It only took a moment." It was a moment that Tom would always remember - that morning of 19 Febr ...Show more
Cyclone Tracy (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
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Category: No Category | 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
Heroes of Tobruk (My Australian Story) by David Mulligan
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Category: Australiana | Series: My Australian Story
It is 1940, and sixteen-year-old Peter Fullerton and his best mate Tony Cantonelli lie about their ages to enlist in the army. Tony also lies about his name - Australia is at war with Italy, and suspicion has been added to the racism he already encounters. Heroes of Tobruk follows these characters from ...Show more
Kokoda (My Australian Story) by Alan R. Tucker
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Category: Military | Series: My Australian Story
In his diary, Archie records his own battles at home, against the local bully Beefy; how Townsville copes as it becomes a base for the Pacific campaign; and the Australian east coast reels under Japanese bombs. Archie's two brothers are fighting in the battlefield of World War II. There is nothing betwe ...Show more
My Australia Story - Surviving Sydney Cove by Goldie Alexander
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Category: Australiana | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
Lizzie Harvey, a convict transported to Sydney Cove, is starved and overworked. She has to fetch the 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 ...Show more
My Australian Story: Banner Bold by Nadia Wheatley
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Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
Something is happening. I can hear bullets going off, and people are running down towards the Eureka field ...In 1854 Rosa Aarons and her family travel from London to the goldfield at Ballarat. She makes new friends, learns to ride a horse, and helps her family get by. Soon Rosa becomes caught up in one ...Show more
My Australian Story: Black Sunday by Evan McHugh
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Category: Australiana | Series: My Australian Story
Nipper only wants to be one thing: a lifesaver. In his world they're larger than life, walking, talking heroes. He's too young, but he starts to train in secret, challenging himself in the Bondi surf. But his secret comes to light one hot Sunday in 1938 - a day that was to become infamous.
My Australian Story: Fremantle Prison Break by Deborah Lisson
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Category: Childrens Picture Books | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
Thomas Morris thinks something most mysterious is going on in Bunbury where he delivers telegraphs: some telegraphs carry cryptic messages and there are strangers in town acting in an oddly inconsistent manner. In his diary, Tom records the exciting adventures he has as he tries to solve the mystery and ...Show more
My Australian Story: Gallipoli by Alan Tucker
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Category: Childrens Picture Books | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
Lying about his age and looking for adventure, 14-year-old Victor March enlists in the 10th Battalion of the AIF to fight in the Great War. Victor and his new mates, Fish, Needle and Robbo, are headed for the Gallipoli peninsula, and into battle. He is among the first soldiers to land at what will becom ...Show more
My Australian Story: My Father's War by Sophie Masson
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Category: History | Series: My Australian Story
Marie's dad has been away for two years, fighting on the Somme battlefields in northern France. For months there has been no word from him, no letters or postcards. Marie and her mother are sick with worry, so they decide to stop waiting - and instead travel to France, to try to find out what has happen ...Show more
My Australian Story: Plagues and Federation by Vashti Farrer
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Category: Australiana | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
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 dow ...Show more