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A New Australian: Kerenza by Rosanne Hawke
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: New Australian
Kerenza isnt sure about leaving her village in Cornwall and taking a ship to Australia, but she can be brave for her das sake. Where he sees a farm, she and her mam see endless bush and flies millions of them and hard work from dawn to dusk. Its almost too much to bear, but the Mallee has its own beauty ...Show more
Alex: Through My Eyes (Australian Disaster Zones) by Rosanne Hawke
18.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Through My Eyes Ser.
A gripping story of one Australian boy's experience of devastating drought. A few kookaburras laugh in the gum trees. Alex grins - they don't often come up this far. His grandpa told him that if kookaburras laugh late in the afternoon, it will rain next day. 'Ha, someone needs to tell the rain to listen ...Show more
Fozia and the Quest of Prince Zal by Rosanne Hawke
14.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
Fozia noticed smoke from the chimney curling to the sky. The brick kiln was working again but she didn't want to go there. She couldn't let the kiln owner see her. Twelve-year-old Fozia has survived the worst flood in Pakistan's history. But her life will never be the same. With her little sister gone a ...Show more
Kelsey and the Quest of the Porcelain Doll by Rosanne Hawke
14.95 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
'Nanna, can you tell me a story just as if I were with you?'Kelsey is in Pakistan and wants to go home. Mum and Dad are busy helping flood victims and she misses her friends. But most of all, Kelsey misses Nanna Rose.Luckily, Kelsey can talk to Nanna on Skype. To help Kelsey feel better, they create ...Show more
Mustara by Rosanne Hawke
16.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
EVERY DAY Mustara and Taj look out onto a sea of yellow-red dust and stones. The sand rolls and shifts. Taj's father says it is like the waves of the ocean and the spinifex bushes are little boats blown about by the wind. Taj longs to take his young camel into the desert to explore, but like a storm in ...Show more
Shahana: Through My Eyes by Rosanne Hawke
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Through My Eyes
Shahana lives alone with her young brother in the shadow of the Line of Control, the border patrolled by Pakistani and Indian soldiers that divides Kashmir in two. Life is hard, but Shahana ekes out a living with her beautiful embroidery. Then she finds a boy lying unconscious near the border. Zahid is ...Show more
Soraya the Storyteller by Rosanne Hawke
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Takeaways Ser.
Soraya is an 11-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan living under the shadow of a temporary protection visa. Soraya and her family begin a new life in a South Australian town. She attends school for the first time, though she had been taught at home. She studies hard so she'll be put in a higher clas ...Show more
Taj and the Great Camel Trek by Rosanne Hawke
16.95 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
Beltana, South Australia, 1875: Twelve-year-old Taj and his camel Mustara are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime. They are joining explorer Ernest Giles on his second attempt to cross the Australian desert where wild dogs, scorpions, poisonous snakes and a constant shortage of water mean the ...Show more
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