I'm Australian Too

I'm Australian Too PDF Author: Mem Fox
Publisher: Omnibus Books
ISBN: 9781760276218
Category : Citizenship
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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I'm Australian! How about you? Many people from many places have come across the seas, to make Australia their home. How Australian is that?

I'm Australian Too

I'm Australian Too PDF Author: Mem Fox
Publisher: Omnibus Books
ISBN: 9781760276218
Category : Citizenship
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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I'm Australian! How about you? Many people from many places have come across the seas, to make Australia their home. How Australian is that?

Whoever You Are

Whoever You Are PDF Author: Mem Fox
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152060664
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : es
Pages : 60

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Despite the differences between children around the world, there are similarities that join us together, such as pain, joy, and love. Inside they are the same.

In a Jar

In a Jar PDF Author: Deborah Marcero
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525514600
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Here's a marvelous picture book, charmingly written and beautifully illustrated, about the power of memory and the magic of friendship. Llewellyn, a little rabbit, is a collector. He gathers things in jars--ordinary things like buttercups, feathers, and heart-shaped stones. Then he meets another rabbit, Evelyn, and together they begin to collect extraordinary things--like rainbows, the sound of the ocean, and the wind just before snow falls. And, best of all, when they hold the jars and peer inside, they remember all the wonderful things they've seen and done. But one day, Evelyn has sad news: Her family is moving away. How can the two friends continue their magical collection--and their special friendship--from afar?

No Friend but the Mountains

No Friend but the Mountains PDF Author: Behrouz Boochani
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1487006845
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Winner of Australia’s richest literary award, No Friend but the Mountains is Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison. Composed entirely by text message, this work represents the harrowing experience of stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world. In 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait of five years of incarceration and exile. Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, No Friend but the Mountains is an extraordinary account — one that is disturbingly representative of the experience of the many stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world. “Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.” — From the Foreword by Man Booker Prize–winning author Richard Flanagan

The Life to Come

The Life to Come PDF Author: Michelle De Kretser
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1936787830
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlisted for the Stella Prize Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award “For a novel concerned with dislocation, there's a lot of grounding humor in The Life to Come. Most of it comes at the expense of Pippa and her ilk, but de Kretser's observations are so spot on, you'll forgive her even as you cringe.”—Amelia Lester, New York Times Book Review Set in Australia, France, and Sri Lanka, The Life to Come is about the stories we tell and don’t tell ourselves as individuals, as societies, and as nations. Driven by a vivid cast of characters, it explores necessary emigration, the art of fiction, and ethnic and class conflict. Pippa is a writer who longs for success and eventually comes to fear that she “missed everything important.” Celeste tries to convince herself that her feelings for her married lover are reciprocated. Ash makes strategic use of his childhood in Sri Lanka, but blots out the memory of a tragedy from that time. Sri Lankan Christabel endures her dull job and envisions a brighter future that “rose, glittered, and sank back,” while she neglects the love close at hand. The stand–alone yet connected worlds of The Life to Come offer meditations on intimacy, loneliness, and our flawed perception of reality. Enormously moving, gorgeously observant of physical detail, and often very funny, this new novel by Michelle de Kretser reveals how the shadows cast by both the past and the future can transform and distort the present. It is teeming with life and earned wisdom—exhilaratingly contemporary, with the feel of a classic.

Boo to a Goose

Boo to a Goose PDF Author: Mem Fox
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140567663
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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A child relates a long list of things he would do before he'd say boo to a goose.

The Little Refugee

The Little Refugee PDF Author: Anh Do
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1742695507
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Anh Do's inspirational story about his family's incredible escape from war-torn Vietnam and his childhood in Australia, told especially for children.

Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds

Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 615

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Koala Lou

Koala Lou PDF Author: Mem Fox
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152000769
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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When Koala Lou's mother becomes so busy that she forgets to tell her firstborn how much she loves her, Koala Lou enters the Bush Olympics, intending to win an event and her mother's love all at one time. "A first-rate choice for bedtime, story hour, or reading aloud."--The Horn Book

Not Forgotten

Not Forgotten PDF Author: Anne Moorhouse
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922578457
Category : Child sexual abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In 1954, two-year-old Samilya was abandoned by her migrant parents and placed in St Joseph's Home, known as Neerkol Orphanage, outside of Rockhampton. After suffering years of insidious abuse at the hands of the Catholic nuns and priests, at age 10, Samilya is returned to her mother's care where the trauma continued.