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Patch Parker by Kay Crabbe
Category: Children's History | Series: Blueprints
Patch Parker's mother was a British convict transported to New South Wales. Life in the new colony was difficult for her and Patch. There was little food and relations with the local people were not always good. Patch did make friends with an Aboriginal boy called Tommera. Find out how Patch and Tommera ...Show more
The Pearl-Shell Diver : A Story of Adventure from the Torres Strait by Kay Crabbe
Category: Teenage/Young Adult Fiction
Sario lives with his family on a remote Torres Strait island, which he never wants to leave--but the winds of change are stirring. The year is 1898, and the pearl-shell trade is at its height. When his father is coerced to join a white trader on his pearling lugger, 13-year-old Sario must go to work as ...Show more
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