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Courage be my Friend: the Vivian Bullwinkel Story – Jenny Davis
Fremantle Press April 2024 ISBN: 9781760993726 RRP: $17.99 It would be completely unAustralian to not know the name of Vivian Bullwinkel and to know of her significant role in our history. But I’ll be honest in saying that I didn’t know very much beyond the general details. This is a fictionalised account of Vivian’s extraordinary courage…
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Marion and the Forty Thieves – Sarah Luke
NLA July 2024 ISBN : 9781922507679 Publisher : National Library of Australia Imprint : National Library of Australia RRP: $19.99 I grew up in Sydney and I was a kid with a thirst for history, particularly of my home town. I loved my excursions to the Rocks and being taken into the city on outings with my father, also a history…
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Where the Heart Should Be – Sarah Crossan
Bloomsbury March 2024 ISBN 9781526666598 Imprint Bloomsbury YA RRP: $25.00 Carnegie Medal-winning, former Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan became one of my most favourite writers when I read my first of her titles, Toffee. That book made such an impression on me that I quickly sought out others and kept my eye out for them…
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Jack’s Island – Norman Jorgensen
Fremantle Press January 2024 ISBN: 9781760992958 RRP: $17.99 Since its initial publication in 2008, Norman Jorgensen’s award-winning historical novel has proven not only an enduring popular choice for many class novel studies, but as a first-rate adventure constantly in circulation among readers from around Year 5 to Year 8. Based on stories from his own father,…
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Hitler’s Daughter 25th Anniversary – Jackie French
Harper Collins Australia July 2024 ISBN: 9781460764008 ISBN 10: 1460764005 Imprint: HarperCollins AU RRP: $17.99 When I took this out of the parcel I was aghast – at the fact of it being 25 years since I first read this, one of Jackie’s most loved MG books. I sent her a message saying so and she replied that…
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Ming & Ada Spark the Digital Age – Jackie French
Harper Collins Australia June 2024 ISBN: 9781460764879 ISBN 10: 1460764870 Imprint: HarperCollins AU RRP: $16.99 What a pleasure it was to read the fourth in this wonderful series early this year, and to, once again, be privileged to create the teaching notes to support Jackie’s work. With her customary diligence, she has dug deep into research to deliver…
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Pox Romana: the Plague that Shook the Roman World – Colin Elliott
New South Publishing Princeton University Press 9780691219158 / 1 May 2024 AUD$59.99, NZD$69.99 I have long had a fascination with Ancient Rome and the Romans (completely aside from any Monty Python references!) and this has been an ongoing read for the past month, as I dip in and out of what may very well be not only the…
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The Miraculous Sweetmakers #1: The Frost Fair- Natasha Hastings. Illustrated by Alex T. Smith
Harper Collins Australia April 2024 ISBN: 9780008496067 ISBN 10: 0008496064 Imprint: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks RRP: $16.99 I had read about the Frost Fairs in London some time ago, after a mention of these in another book and they really must have been quite a spectacle. An authentic Frost Fair will never happen again – read here to find out why…
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