Meet the other Australian girls and authors
A FRIEND FOR GRACE 1808
It’s 1808 and Grace is on board the ship Indispensable with her friend Hannah. The girls wonder what the new land will be like – the convict women say there are giant rats and other strange animals! Then sickness strikes the ship …Will they survive to reach the shores of New South Wales?
Follow Grace on her adventure in the second of four exciting stories about a convict girl who is given another chance.
Sofie Laguna, author of the Grace books, is a highly regarded and award-winning writer of several books for children. Bird and Sugar Boy was shortlisted for the 2007 CBCA Book of the Year Award, Younger Readers, and Sofie’s adult book, One Foot Wrong, was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2009.
LETTY AND THE STRANGER’S LACE 1841
It’s 1841 and Letty and her sister Lavinia have arrived in Sydney town. It’s a dangerous place for two girls on their own. When Lavinia gets a job, poor Letty is left feeling useless and alone. Then she meets Mary, a strange woman with a secret …
Follow Letty on her adventure in the second of four exciting stories about a free-settler girl and her new life in a far-off land.
Alison Lloyd, author of the Letty books, is the popular and highly regarded author of several books for children, including Year of the Tiger and Wicked Warriors and Evil Emperors, a fantastic and fact-filled book about Ancient China.
Rose on Wheels 1900
It’s 1900 and Rose feels that Aunt Alice is the only one who understands her. But now it looks as if Aunt Alice is going to live in Adelaide, leaving Rose with a dreadful new governess, Miss Higginbottom! Can Rose stop Aunt Alice leaving Melbourne? And has her chance of going to school gone forever?
Follow Rose on her adventure in the second of four stories about a Federation girl who’s determined to do things her way!
Sherryl Clark, author of the Rose books, is a prolific and popular writer for children. Sherryl’s most recent Puffin book is Motormouth, a companion volume to Sixth Grade Style Queen (Not!), which was an Honour book in the 2008 CBCA Book of theYear Awards, Younger Readers.
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Follow the story of your favourite Australian girls and you will see that there is a special charm on the cover of each book that tells you something about the story.
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PUFFIN BOOKS
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Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London, WC2R 0RL, England
Published by Penguin Group (Australia), 2011
Text copyright © Gabrielle Wang, 2011
Illustrations copyright © Lucia Masciullo, 2011
The moral right of the author and illustrator has been asserted.
All rights reserved.
Every effort has been made to contact the copyright holders for material used in this book.
Photograph on page 110 courtesy of the State Library of Victoria.
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ISBN: 978-0-14-330533-0
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