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A Waltz for Matilda (#1 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: The Matilda Saga
The story behind Banjo Paterson's iconic Australian song.Ages 10-14 'Once a jolly swagman camped by a BillabongUnder the shade of a Coolibah treeAnd he sang as he watched and waited till his Billy boiledYou'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me...'In 1894, twelve-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to fi ...Show more
Becoming Mrs Mulberry by Jackie French
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From bestselling author Jackie French comes a book about the secrets we carry, those that we unearth - and those that are too dangerous to tell. The once impoverished medical student Agnes Glock is now the fabulously wealthy Mrs Mulberry. Her estate in the mountains is magnificent, a haven for those too ...Show more
Clancy of the Overflow (#9 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: The\Matilda Saga Ser.
From Australia's best-loved storyteller comes the final book in the bestselling Matilda Saga This is a love song to our nation, told in a single sweeping storyJed Kelly has finally persuaded her great aunt Nancy to tell the story of her grandparents. The tale that unfolds is one of Australia's greatest ...Show more
Convicts (Fair Dinkum Histories All the Stinky Bits) by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
Telling BITS of history as they really were! In 1788, beautiful Australia became a prison as England sent their convicts to the new colony on crowded, smelly ships. And when they arrived, they brought the stink with them. Life as a convict was toughflogging was frequent, food was scarce, and they knew a ...Show more
Facing the Flame (#7 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: The\Matilda Saga Ser.
There have been droughts before, but not like this. Heartbreaking and powerful, FACING THE FLAME is a story of the triumph of courage and community, and a love for the land so deep that not even bushfire can erode it. Gibber's Creek 1978 As grass dries and the hot wind howls, Gibber's Creek will burn. B ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #5: A Nation of Swaggies and Diggers by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
The Australian colonies had come a long way since they were a dump for grim crims and convicts. Life was comfortableat least for some. But soon drought would send swaggies waltzing their matildas along the roads, and bad times would make politicians dream of uniting the country into one nation. And then ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #8: Booms, Busts & Bushfires by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
Australia had changed before, but slowly. Now everything was fast! Attitudes were evolving, technology was changing every aspect of life, and people were starting to recognise the damage we were doing to our landand the way Australia's Indigenous people had been mistreated. Our resources had made us a r ...Show more
Gold Rush (Fair Dinkum Histories All the Stinky Bits) by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books | Series: FAIR DINKUM HISTORIES
Telling BITS of history as they really were! Gold fever hit Australia in the 1850s and it was the start of a wild, crazy hunt that saw people from all over the world come to try their luck. A few people might have dug up a fortune, but what most diggers dug was latrines. It turns out that the Gold Rush ...Show more
If Blood Should Stain the Wattle (#6 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: The Matilda Saga
It's 1972 in Gibber's Creek, and across the nation, the catchcry is, 'It's time'. In 1972, and the catchcry is 'It's time'. As political ideals drift from disaster to the dismissal, it's also time for Jed Kelly to choose between past love, Nicholas, the local Labor member, and Sam from the Halfway to Et ...Show more
Plague by Jackie French
$26.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books
From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire, Cyclone, Drought, Pandemic and Earthquake ... Grass and wheat-lands spread to the horizon, and so did we, with too few ibis to control us. We could rage across the land. We ate the grass, the leaves, the wheat ...
Rockin', Rollin', Hair & Hippies (Fair Dinkum Histories #7 by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
World War II was over, and it was a good time to be Australian. Rock 'n' roll, television and the Olympics had come down under. But underneath it all was the menace of the Cold War, and then came the horrors of Korea and Vietnam. Why couldn't we all just get along? Covers a pivotal time in Australia's h ...Show more
Rotters and Squatters (Fair Dinkum Histories #3) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories Ser.
Rotters and Squatters continues the warts-and-all story of Australia from 1820 to 1850. This period saw new colonies founded and squatters spreading into new areas and taking the best land. Clashes with the Indigenous population were inevitable and often brutal. As the supply of convict labour dried up, ...Show more