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
Eureka!: A story of the goldfields by Mark Wilson
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
A stirring story of the goldfields and the Eureka Rebellion, by award-winning author/illustrator Mark Wilson Molly and her father have emigrated to Australia to try their luck as gold prospectors in Ballarat, Victoria. Life on the diggings is hard and Molly misses her mother, who died before they le ...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
Gold Rush (Fair Dinkum Histories All the Stinky Bits) by Jackie French
$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
HMAS Sydney: The Mystery of Australia's Greatest Naval Disaster by Mike Lefroy
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Found! The wreck of Australian navy cruiser HMAS Sydney II was discovered off the coast of Western Australia in March 2008. In November 1941, controversy and mystery surrounded the loss of the battle-hardened ship and her crew. Now you can find out the real story. Ages 7+.
Haywire (Australia's Second World War) by Claire Saxby
$17.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Australia's Second World War Ser.
In 1939, 14-year-old Tom lives in Hay where his family runs the local bakery. Max Gruber is nearly fourteen-years-old. He is sent to his Uncle Ferdy in London, but is then interred and shipped to Australia aboard the Dunera. He arrives in Hay and meets Tom. The two boys become friends and find their liv ...Show more
History Mysteries: Diamond Jack by Mark Greenwood
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: History Mysteries Ser. | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 2-3, Age 7-8
In March 1942, an aircraft prepares for a desperate midnight escape, taking refugees to safety in Australia. Just before take-off, the pilot is entrusted with a mysterious, wax-sealed package. But when the plane is shot down by the enemy and crash lands on the Kimberley coast, the package is forgotten-- ...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...
History Mysteries: The Last Tiger by Mark Greenwood
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: History Mysteries Ser. | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 3-4, Age 8-9
In 1936, hunted and trapped by European farmers, the last few Tasmanian Tigers take refuge in the forests of Tasmania. But even after the last-known Tiger dies alone and neglected in a zoo, people claim to have sighted this amazing creature. No one can prove it still exists, until a determined searcher ...Show more
History Mysteries: The Lost Explorer by Mark Greenwood
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: History Mysteries Ser. | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 2-3, Age 7-8
In 1848 the famous explorer Ludwig Leichhardt sets out on an epic journey. His aim is to cross Australia from east to west, but he never reaches his destination and no one from his expedition is ever seen again. Countless search parties set out to look for the expedition but no trace is ever found. Unti ...Show more
Kokoda: Specially Adapted for Teenage Readers by Peter FitzSimons
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
For Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know just what happened - and just what our troops achieved. In this new edition of his bestselling account of this seminal battle, Peter FitzSimons tells the Kokoda story in a gripping, moving narrative specially geared for hi ...Show more