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Penny Matthews
Read all four vibrant stories and share in Ruby’s adventures as she discovers happiness in a time of great hardship.
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Alice Pung
It’s 1983 and Marly is just trying to fit in at Sunshine Primary School. But being a refugee from Vietnam doesn’t make things easy, and when Marly’s cousins come to…
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Gabrielle Wang
It’s 1941 … and school is almost over - not just for summer, but forever. Darwin could be bombed any day, and everyone Pearlie knows is leaving for a safer…
Michelle Hamer
It's1930 … and Daisy’s worst nightmare has come true. She’s alone on the streets, separated from her family. Things get worse after the police send her to live at the…
Sofie Laguna
For the first time, read all four Grace stories in one beautiful hardback edition. It’s 1808… and Grace’s world is about to change - from her tough life as a…
It’s 1930 and Daisy lives on a farm, where she loves riding her horse, Jimmy, through the paddocks. Times are tough, and when her father loses his job, Daisy and…
It's1941 and the war is changing Pearlie’s life every day. Darwin is full of soldiers, there’s a spy on the loose, and people are turning against Pearlie’s best friend, Naoko…
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It’s 1931, and Ruby’s family has lost everything in the Great Depression. And so, leaving behind her dad, her school friends and everything she knows, Ruby must move to Kettle…
Ruby is finally settling into life at her school in the country. But when a desperately poor family moves to the area no one wants to be friends with them…
It’s 1931 … and Kettle Farm is starting to feel like home, but Ruby is still desperately worried about her dad. He hasn’t written for weeks, and nobody knows where…
Sally Rippin
It’s 1956 and the Melbourne Olympic Games have finally arrived! The whole city is buzzing with excitement and Lina can’t wait to go along as a reporter for the school…
Follow Lina on her adventure in the final of four excitingstories about a passionate girl finding a place to belong.
It’s 1956 … and the Melbourne Olympicsis over but for…
It’s 1956 … and Lina is working hard on the school newspaper. But mean Sarah Buttersworth isn’t making it easy, and when Lina’s best friend Mary gets distracted by her…
It’s 1930 … and Ruby Quinlan lives in a beautiful big house in Adelaide’s eastern suburbs. But The Great Depression has made millions of people unemployed across the world, and…
Lina is an Italian girl living in Carlton in 1956 – the year of the Melbourne Olympics. She’s a scholarship girl who dreams of being a writer, but her biggest…
Davina Bell
Alice’s mother is sick, and everyone fears that she might have the dreaded Spanish Influenza. Alice begins to dance again to distract herself but soon becomes frustrated at how difficult…
It’s 1849, and Nellie O'Neill is arriving in South Australia on a ship bringing orphan girls from Irish workhouses. Nellie and her best friend, Mary, have left the famine in…
Follow Nellie on her adventure in the second of four exciting stories about an Irish girl with a big heart, in search of the freedom to be herself.
It’s 1849…
It’s 1850 and Nellie’s best friend, Mary, is gravely ill. To provide Mary with the care she needs, Nellie must break a promise and go on a quest to find…
Nellie returns to Adelaide, where a shock awaits her. A reunion with someone from her past has the power to fulfil the wishes she made when she first arrived in…
The war is over, summer has arrived and Alice is filled with hope that life with her family will finally return to normal. However, as peace is negotiated overseas, nothing…
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Follow Alice on her adventure in the second of four stories about a gifted girl in a time of war.
It’s 1918 … and Alice has never felt lonelier. Her…
It’s 1918, and it feels to Alice as if the war has been dragging on forever. It’s four years since Alice’s father went away to be a doctor for the…
It’s 1808 …and Grace loves caring for baby Alice and working with her mistress, Beth, on the property at Rose Hill.
It’s 1808 …and Grace loves caring for baby…
Alison Lloyd
It’s 1841 … and Letty must leave her job on the sheep-run because drought has brought hard times. Together, she and the Grey family set out over the Blue Mountains.
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Grace’s life as a servant gets off to a shaky start. Her master, Tom, is strict, and even though Grace means to be helpful and hardworking, she is soon in…
Letty’s journey continues in this, the second of four books about a free-settler girl in a far-off land. Letty and Lavinia have arrived in Sydney as free settlers. They’ve made…
Grace’s journey continues in this, the second of four books about a convict girl who is given a second chance. Grace is on board the Indispensable , being transported to…
Poppy at Summerhill is the second story in a set of four about the amazing journey of a young Chinese Aboriginal girl, who lives on a Christian mission in 1864…
Sherryl Clark
Rose’s journey continues in this, the second book about a Federation girl who’s determined to do things her way. Rose’s mother and Aunt Alice are fighting again, and Rose is…
Letty is finally making a life for herself in New South Wales when her world is thrown into turmoil again. The family she is working for are going back to…
It’s 1864 … and Poppy, disguised as a lost princess from India, has joined a travelling medicine show. Join Poppy in the final of four exciting stories about a Gold…
Poppy is on the road again, desperately trying to catch up with her brother. In Wahgunyah, she makes contact with the Chinese community who have come to Victoria to find…
Rose is finally allowed to go to school - the magnificent St Swithin’s! But Rose has never been to school before; will she be able to keep up? Will she…
It’s 1901 … and even the death of Queen Victoria can’t stop the growing excitement as Melbourne gets ready to celebrate Federation - on Rose’s birthday!
It’s 1901 … and…
It’s 1841 and Letty is on the docks in England, farewelling her bossy older sister, who is about to take a long sea voyage to Australia. But then there is…
It’s 1900 and Rose lives with her family in a big house in Melbourne. She wants to play cricket, climb trees and be an adventurer! But Rose’s mother has other…
Meet Poppy is the first story in a set of four about the amazing journey of a young Chinese Aboriginal girl, who lives on a Christian mission in 1864. It…
It’s 1808 and Grace is living with her uncle in London. They have no money, and Grace is always lonely and often hungry. One afternoon Grace can’t resist taking a…
