Download or read book No Gun for Asmir written by Christobel Mattingley and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 1993-10-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War has come to Asmir's home in Sarajevo. He is torn from his father, his home and everything he has known. He becomes a refugee. This is a story of courage you will never forget.
Download or read book Asmir in Vienna written by Christobel Mattingley and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war in Sarajevo wrenched Asmir and his family from their homeland and worst of all from their beloved father, Muris.
Download or read book Escape from Sarajevo written by Christobel Mattingley and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequel to No Guns for Asmir Asmir in ViennaUpper Primary.
Download or read book Chelonia Green Champion of Turtles written by Christobel Mattingley and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There in the shimmering green water lay four big oval shapes like a giant's carving dishes. They were patterned in brownish green and had five handles. Suddenly the handles stirred and the giant's carving dishes began to move! Chellie was very small when she first saw the beautiful green turtles with the scientific name so close to her own. Every year she would watch them swim in the sea and make their long journeys up the beach to lay their eggs. But one day, Chellie makes a grim and horrible discovery, a discovery that turns her life upside down and forces her to act.
Download or read book Essential Fiction Stage 3 written by Pearson Education and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete solution for literacy at Key Stage 2
Download or read book My Father s Islands written by Christobel Mattingley and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2012 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the 1640s and Claesgen lives in Batavia with her stepmother, Jannetje, waiting weeks, and sometimes months, for her father, Abel Tasman, to come back from his sea voyages. When he returns, Tasman delights his young daughter with tales of treacherous oceans and relentless wild weather, hazards of unseen coral reefs and endless days of empty ocean, encountersboth friendly and hostilewith indigenous peoples, murder and theft, and the threat of smugglers and pirates. Inspired by a 1637 painting of the Tasman family by Jacob Cuyp and meticulously researched, My Fathers Islands is a fictional story told through the voice of Claesgen. Tasmans young daughters curiosity about her fathers life takes the reader on his voyage on the unchartered seas of the Pacific Ocean, in the search for unknown lands and new sources of riches for the powerful trading company, the Dutch East India Company. My FathersIslands opens up to children a significant, but little known, part of Australias historythe European discovery of parts of the Unknown South Land by the heroic explorer and navigator, Abel Janszoon Tasman.
Download or read book First Friend written by Christobel Mattingley and published by Happy Cat Books (UK). This book was released on 2007 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kerry's family has moved house and she has a new school to get used to - it's much bigger than her old one, with lots of corridors and stairs. It's not surprising she gets lost on her way back from the library. Fortunately a helpful dog appears to show her the way to the playground - where she makes lots more new friends.
Download or read book The Sack written by Christobel Mattingley and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Shane's dad loses his job everything changes, slowly at first and then faster and faster. But although Shane and his family have to give up so much that is familiar, Shane finds that in their new life they still have what is most important.
Download or read book New Patches for Old written by Christobel Mattingley and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SUMMARY: Patricia is desperately lonely and finds everything about Australia strange and different from what she was used to in England .Going to a new school makes matters worse, and the situation is unbearable until she finds unexpected friends.
Download or read book Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits written by Laila Lalami and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2005-10-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A dream of a debut, by turns troubling adn glorious, angry and wise.” —Junot Diaz Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits evokes the grit and enduring grace that is modern Morocco. As four Moroccans illegally cross the Strait of Gibraltar in an inflatable boat headed for Spain, author Laila Lalami asks, What has driven them to risk their lives? And will the rewards prove to be worth the danger? There’s Murad, a gentle, unemployed man who’s been reduced to hustling tourists around Tangier; Halima, who’s fleeing her drunken husband and the slums of Casablanca; Aziz, who must leave behind his devoted wife in hope of securing work in Spain; and Faten, a student and religious fanatic whose faith is at odds with an influential man determined to destroy her future. Sensitively written with beauty and boldness, this is a gripping book about what propels people to risk their lives in search of a better future.
Download or read book Books in the Life of a Child written by Maurice Saxby and published by Macmillan Education AU. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books in the Life of a Child explores the value of books and reading in the stimulation of children's imagination and their fundamental importance in the development of language and true literacy. It examines not only the vast range of children's books available but also how to introduce young people to the joys of reading in the home, the school and in the community. The book has been written as a resource for all adults, especially teachers, student teachers, librarians and parents, and those who care about the value of literature for children. It is a comprehensive and critical guide, with chapters on the history of children's literature and an analysis of its many forms and genres, from poetry, fairytale, myth, legend and fantasy, through realistic and historical fiction, to humour, pulp fiction and information books.
Download or read book Lizard Log written by Christobel Mattingley and published by Hachette Children's Books Australia. This book was released on 1987 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repeat. Australian story. New edition.
Download or read book Tiger s Milk written by Christobel Mattingley and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antony had to go to the country to live. He was scared of cows, didn't like milk and couldn't play football, but, after a few weeks of drinking his grandmother's special tiger's milk, he was a different boy.
Download or read book Sound in Z written by Andrey Smirnov and published by Walther Konig Verlag. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by David Rogerson, Matt Price. Foreword by Jeremy Deller. Text by Andrei Smirnov.
Download or read book The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
Download or read book Battle Order 204 written by Christobel Mattingley and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David's boyhood dreams of flying led him to England for months of training to be a bomber pilot in World War II at age 19, but his final flight was a nightmare. Seconds after the bombs were released, David was wounded in five places and his fellow pilot Dog was hit. Flying metal slashed his right knee, thigh, and shoulder; the tendons and artery in his right hand were severed; and shrapnel ripped through his thick leather helmet, fracturing his skull as his aircraft went into a dive. This riveting true story takes young people through the events of a young WWII pilot's heroic journey.
Download or read book The Big Swim written by Christobel Mattingley and published by . This book was released on 1989-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
