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Carly Mills Pioneer Girl - Superstar! by Jane Smith; Pat Kan (Illustrator)
$12.50 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Carly Mills Pioneer Girl Ser.
When Carly Mills goes to Melbourne with the school choir, she gets more than she bargained for: a trip back in time and a chance meeting with a mischievous little girl who might just grow up to be the world famous opera singer, Dame Nellie Melba. If Carly is to help the little girl achieve her dream, sh ...Show more
Philip and Alexander by Adrian Goldsworthy
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander transformed Macedon from a weak kingdom into a globe-spanning empire. During his short life Alexander the Great carved out an empire stretching from the Balkans to Central India, re-drawing the map of the ancient worl ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories: Gold Rush by FRENCH JACKIE
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | 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
A Great Escape by Felice Arena
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Reading Level: 9
It's a great escape, but will Peter survive it?When Peter's family leaves for a trip across the border, he stays behind. So when the government builds a wall through the city, guarded by soldiers, tanks and ferocious dogs, he's trapped. Everyone says he might never see his family again. But Peter has a ...Show more
A Waltz for Matilda (#1 Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: The Matilda Saga | Reading Level: 11-14
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
Caroline Chisholm (Aussie Heroes Series) by Tania McCartney
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Aussie Heroes
"If Captain James Cook discovered Australia - if John Macarthur planted the first seeds of its extraordinary prosperity - if Ludwig Leichhardt penetrated and explored its before unknown interior - Caroline Chisholm has done much more: she has peopled - she alone has colonised in the true sense of the te ...Show more
Fair Dinkum Histories #1: Shipwreck, Sailors and 60000 Years by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The Indigenous people of Australia have lived here for tens of thousands of years. They survived the ice age and ancient global warming. They saw oceans sink and oceans rise. They watched the mega-beasts disappear and dingoes arrive. Theirs is the oldest civilization in the world. Then along came the Du ...Show more
Fred Hollows (Aussie Heroes Series) by Hazel Edwards
$14.95 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Aussie Heroes | Reading Level: 10+
This Aussie Heroes series introduces primary-aged children to heroes who have made a contribution to Australian society. Each hero has helped others in need and in turn shaped history. An insightful look at the fascinating lives of great Australians. Fred Hollows grew up in rural New Zealand. As a child ...Show more
Gold! (Gold Rush) by Jackie Kerin; Annie White (Illustrator)
$16.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
Age range 6+'Blimey!''Snakes alive!''It's as big as a –'As Robbie, Jim, Sam and Charlie set off to try their luck in the Victorian goldfields, they imagine filling their pockets with gleaming nuggets. After months of hard work and disappointment, the four friends are about to give up, when Sam finds som ...Show more
History Mysteries: Lasseter's Gold by Mark Greenwood
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: History Mysteries Ser. | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
It?s 1930, and a man named Harold Lasseter claims to have discovered a massive gold reef in Central Australia. As he journeys across the desert to find it again, he buries maps and secret messages beneath the ashes of his campfires - before taking the location of the treasure to his grave...
Sir Edward Weary (Aussie Heroes Series) by Hazel Edwards
$14.95 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Aussie Heroes Ser. | Reading Level: 10+
Edward Dunlop was determined to become a doctor. Born in Melbourne, he was fascinated with both medical science and the great outdoors. Whilst studying medicine he earned the nickname Weary' and gained a reputation as a dedicated doctor and sportsman.In November 1939, after the outbreak of World War II, ...Show more
The Bushranger's Boys: 1841 (Do You Dare?) by Alison Lloyd
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Do you dare confront a bully? Steal to protect someone? Hide a bushranger? When Jem comes across a well-dressed bushranger in the hills behind his home, at first he's afraid. But William Westwood is no ordinary thief, and he's not much older than Jem himself. The two become friends, along with Jem's ma ...Show more
