Download or read book Charlie Up a Gum Tree written by E. A. Schurmann and published by Hachette Children's Books Australia. This book was released on 19?? with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Up the Gum Tree written by Susan Duxbury and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny and poignant story of pioneers in the Australian outback, based on true facts. In 1960, two young tradesmen, a carpenter and butcher, leave the monotony of their German home. They travel to Australia in search of adventure and the reader is taken on a fascinating journey through the continent 'down under' of an earlier epoch. The adventurers become familiar with the Aborigine culture; the gangs of men known as 'the kangaroo hunters' and the ludicrous characters they meet in the outback. But disillusionment sets in and one of them returns. Will the other find his place in this fascinating country? Little does he realise that he is on the threshold of yet another adventure with this group of crazy Germans he has met in the pub. They work in the outback erecting farm buildings and return to Perth to spend their money on girls and their days on the beach. When cupid takes his bow, decisions must be made. The years have passed and they have become 'real dinkum Aussies'. Suddenly, they yearn for their homeland and the families they have left behind. Should they return? Where do they belong? Only one of them will know.
Download or read book Ebony Jr written by and published by . This book was released on 1975-12 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created by the publishers of EBONY. During its years of publishing it was the largest ever children-focused publication for African Americans.
Download or read book Roseghetto written by Kirsty Jagger and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shayla is on a newspaper assignment when she returns to the public housing estate where she grew up and finds it demolished. The locals have been evicted, their homes erased, their stories too. Standing among the rubble of Rosemeadow, Shayla is assailed by her memories of living there. The bad secret Daddy asked her to keep. Mummy rekindling a dangerous romance. Making friends with 'the gutter kids'. Surrounded by poverty, confronted by domestic violence, Shayla found her escape in reading. Now it's time to tell the stories of Rosemeadow, including her own. Roseghetto is an unforgettable and moving coming-of-age story, an account of breaking the cycle of violence and poverty.
Download or read book Hossfly That S Me written by Dwayne Hornbeck and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hossfly, Thats Me is the exciting story of a young boy facing a traumatic life without his mother. His inquisitive mind leads to mysterious troubles in the Wildlife Refuge. Papa, his father, becomes entangled in a vicious web of trouble. Angel, his adventurous friend, joins Hossfly in this mystery. There are times of joy, times of grief, and times of comical banter as the story unfolds. Reporter Jimmy Lee and Sheriff Deal combine their talents to bring this book to life. The town of Prairie Gem will become etched in your mind as the home of Hossfly.
Download or read book Finding Darcy written by Sue Lawson and published by Walker Books Australia. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When teenager Darcy Abbott is sent to live with her surly grandmother and silent great-grandmother she uncovers a mystery regarding the death of her great-grandfather, Darcy Charles Fletcher, during World War II. In her quest for answers, she discovers exactly what she has been searching for all her life – except she didn’t know it. Finding Darcy is a coming-of-age novel by award-winning Australian author Sue Lawson. This young adult fiction book is about the damage that secrets can wreak over generations – and the healing liberation of truth. Long-listed for a Golden Inky and short-listed for the Children’s Peace Literature Awards. For more realistic YA by Sue, read Allie McGregor’s True Colours, After, Dare You, Pan’s Whisper, Forget Me Not and You Don’t Even Know. Sue’s website is www.suelawson.com.au “This is a special book. The shadows the past casts on one family – and on our society – are brilliantly explored in the voice of a young girl. Sue Lawson manages to weave the profound with the everyday language of a teenager.” Jackie French. “Written in teenage vernacular, humorous and topical, the novel is nevertheless a serious commentary on the effects of name-calling and cyber-bullying on adolescents. The strength of this novel is that it manages to be quite didactic about the issue, as well as the evils of racism and government indifference, while still engaging teenagers in a relevant school scenario. Recommended.” Magpies magazine “Finding Darcy is a compelling journey of discovery … Darcy is a fully-developed, likeable character who struggles to adapt to her challenging new living environment. Issues of family secrets, bullying, racism, small town small-mindedness are all handled realistically and sensitively.” Aussie Reviews “Intense, skilful writing makes this rather serious novel a thoroughly memorable read, provoking the reader to pause and think deeply about the futility, destructiveness and pain of war. As Darcy learns, if we worked a little harder to understand and value one another, the world would be a much more peaceful place in which to live. Highly recommended.” NSW Association of Gifted & Talented Children “Lawson has a beautiful way of sharing her world with the reader and the storyline had me entirely invested in the outcome … The humour, drama and tension of this novel, along with the peppering of our country’s war history, is an amazing read exploring the relationships between four generations of women.” Persnickety Snark “Fiction firmly based in Australian history, Finding Darcy is a book which will help young readers not only understand the effects of war, but maybe understand their own families a little more … From the first page to the last I was extremely moved.” The Reading Stack
Download or read book Let s Cowboy Up written by Ronald H. Mayer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lets Cowboy Up is a West Texas cowboy story centered around Charlie, a single twenty-five-year ranch hand, whos a wannabe dreaming to climb up the cowboy chain of command so as to someday own and operate a West Texas ranch of his own. During this climb, he runs headfirst into almost all kinds of obstacles known in the life of a day-working West Texas beauty. This story is written in and around Broomee, Texas, a once-thriving ranching community just south of Sterling City on the way to San Angelo. The town Bromee has been recreated to help out with the story.
Download or read book Lost Among White Africans written by David Ker and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Girl With No Name written by Diney Costeloe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heart-wrenching story from the bestselling author of The Throwaway Children. Thirteen-year-old Lisa has escaped from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport. She arrives in London unable to speak a word of English, her few belongings crammed into a small suitcase. Among them is one precious photograph of the family she has left behind. Lonely and homesick, Lisa is adopted by a childless couple. But when the Blitz blows her new home apart, she wakes up in hospital with no memory of who she is or where she came from. The authorities give her a new name and despatch her to a children's home. With the war raging around her, what will become of Lisa now? Can't wait for the sequel? The Married Girls is out now! What readers are saying about The Girl With No Name: 'Diney Costeloe has perfectly captured the traumatic atmosphere of the war years both in London and the countryside... Highly recommended' 'The characters leap from the pages. The Blitz scenes were palpable, imagining what Londoners endured during WW2. Love all Diney's books' 'The author writes with good pace, and excellent descriptions of place and characters, but her main skill is in conveying the personal dilemmas faced by her characters. I shall definitely seek out more books by this author'.
Download or read book Blown Away from the Land written by David Ker and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gumwood Tales written by John T. Winter and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first of the Gumwood tales takes place around the village of Muchadoo in the land of Gumwood. The villagers have just heard that their mayor’s precious ceremonial regalia has been stolen. Who could have taken it? The friends platypus, brush turkey, and possum are falsely accused of the dastardly theft, following a failed attempt to persuade sergeant bulldog to rescue a rabbit from two nasty foxes that ambushed the rabbit and put him in a sugar bag. The king of the foxes has also trapped an unsuspecting goose and put her in a bag. A more subtle enticement is carried out by a cat who wrongly thinks she’s in league with the foxes. She leads a brush turkey into a trap, only to find she’s also caged and ready to be cooked on a bonfire! It turns out the animals were trapped to furnish food for the grand foxes’ yearly feast. Police dogs and the sergeant bulldog go on a wild chase after the friends. Meanwhile, at the great fox feast, the village animals attack the foxes, scattering them into the forest, but the foxes gather together, and while the villagers are looking for them in the forest, the foxes make their way to the village, where they wreak havoc. They light another bonfire, and commence smashing, stealing, eating, and drinking until the villagers return and another fight begins. Where will this all lead? Good triumphs over evil in the end, but there are casualties and one mystery that remains for the next book in the series.
Download or read book The Boy s Own Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Broad Arrow written by Caroline Woolmer Leakey and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woolmer was a British author who spent 5 years in Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's land). At the time the island state was used to house life prisoners in the notorious Port Arthur prison on its extreme Southernmost tip. Her first and only novel focuses on a lifer prisoner there
Download or read book Broad Arrow written by Caroline Leakey and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Broad Arrow" is a romantic tale of a woman's quest for love and redemption. Maida Gwynnham had grown up as an only child of a country gentleman. Her mother died early in her childhood. Tragedy however struck again when she was accused and then convicted for child murder and was sent to prison for the crime. She was pardoned by royal decree and began to rebuild her life. Now under her assumed name of Martha Grylls, she encounters the dashing Captain Norwell and the attraction is mutual. But as the romance blossoms, secrets of her past begin to come out...
Download or read book India Dark written by Kirsty Murray and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid story of two girls' journey from Melbourne to Madras. MADRAS, 1910: two girls are caught up in a scandal that will change their lives forever. Singing and dancing across a hundred stages in a troupe of child performers, they travel by steam-train into the heart of India. But as one disaster follows another, money runs short and tempers fray, what must the girls do to protect themselves, and how many lives will be ruined if they try to break free?
Download or read book Octet written by James Wieland and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Michael O’Connell is dead!’ Spanning the week of his burial, from his obituary to the wake, eight characters whose lives – some intimately, some more obliquely – have intersected his, slowly open up the carefully constructed compartments of his very private, very financially successful, life, even as they reveal themselves. A luminous story of disclosure and concealment, of love and its opposites explored in their various tones and shades, and of those who embrace life’s alternatives and those who deny them, Octet’s canvas is broad, spreading from the Wicklow Stud in the southern hinterland of New South Wales to the battlefields of New Guinea, from the ballet stages of Europe to the Business world in London, from Edinburgh to Sydney, in a timespan which reaches from the Second World War to the turn of the century. Why did Michael make the gift of the cello?
Download or read book Australian Poetry written by Magda Palmer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian poetry, prose and stories stand alone because their beginning can be traced back to Colonization in 1788. This facet of the arts began as entertainment around campfires at a time when hardships and adventures were romanticised. They characteristically followed themes of heroic achievement and individual experiences. Back then, the ethnic groups were English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh. Today, Australian literature keeps its original theme with added egalitarianism, blending the original transportation cultures with those of the Indigenous peoples, those born in Australia, the British Isles, Egypt, Greece, Lebanon, Poland, Russia, Turkey and other nationalities. Thus, literature and its sister, the art scene, is a powerful mirror reflecting Australia’s unique social and political contexts. I invite you to enjoy my contributions! Magda
