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Desert Cowboy by Pat Lowe
Category: Junior Fiction
The third book in the stunning Yinti series, this book is baed on the life stories of Jimmy Pike. Yinti has left his desert sandhills country to be a cowboy, working on huge sheep and cattle stations. Still a mischief-maker, he finds out all about station life and town life too. And then Yinti falls in ...Show more
Desert Dog by Pat Lowe
Category: Junior Fiction
A magical tale about Spinifex, a dingo pup, and his adventures with his adopted family. Provides a strong analogy with Aboriginal peoples' first contact with Europeans. Jimmy Pike's superb drawings bring this story to life.
Feeling the Heat by Pat Lowe
Category: Fiction
Matthew finds that things have changed when he returns to his former home in the Kimberley, looking for work and for Frances, the Aboriginal girl who was a childhood friend. Even Frances has changed more then he'd ever imagined, and then something shocking happens... Ages 13+
HUNTERS and TRACKERS of the Australian Desert by Pat Lowe
Category: Fiction
Australian Aborigines are legendary hunters and trackers. However, few people have more than a sketchy idea of the skills they have to master from early childhood onwards. The people of the deserts that make up the centre of Australia adapted to one of the most marginal environments on earth, with no te ...Show more
Jimmy and Pat Meet the Queen by Pat Lowe
Category: First Nations
Jimmy and Pat Meet the Queen is a fantasy about Native Title, in which Jimmy, a traditional owner of land in the Great Sandy Desert, challenges the Queen to visit his camp and prove to him that she is the rightful owner of this so-called 'vacant Crown land'. Her Majesty accepts the invitation, and soon ...Show more
The Girl With No Name by Pat Lowe
Category: Teenage/Young Adult Fiction
Set in the dramatic beauty of the Kimberley region, this is the poignant story of Matthew and his unusual friendship with an Aboriginal girl.
The Girl from the Great Sandy Desert by Jukuna Mona Chuguna, Pat Lowe
Category: Middle Readers
Age range 8 to 13Beneath the hot, blue sky, Mana is joined by her brothers, sisters and cousins, as well as her many mothers and her favourite dogs. With wonderful wit, Mana recounts hunting, gathering, kinship, obligations and the never-ending search for water, all told through the eyes of a young girl ...Show more
Two Sisters by Ngarta Jinny Bent; Jukuna Mona Chuguna; Pat Lowe; Eirlys Richards
Category: Australian History
Ngarta and Jukuna lived in the Great Sandy Desert. They traversed country according to the seasons, just as the Walmajarri people had done for thousands of years. But it was a time of change. Desert people who had lived with little knowledge of European settlement were now moving onto cattle stations. T ...Show more
Yinti, Desert Child by Pat Lowe, Jimmy Pike
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Yinti Ser.
Age range 9 - 12 The first book in the Yinti series of three books. The stories are linked in a sequence that shows Yinti's development from a young bushie to a competent station worker and adult. Yinti is a traditional Walmajarri Aboriginal boy growing up Great Sandy Desert in the remote North West of ...Show more
Yinti, Desert Cowboy (Yinti #3) by Pat Lowe; Jimmy Pike
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Yinti Ser.
Age range 9 - 12 Gradually, Yinti and Wara grew accustomed to station life. They no longer ran and hid when they saw a motorcar coming along the road towards them. The third book in the Yinti series of three books. Desert Cowboy is the story of Yinti's return to the cattle station and of his life as a ...Show more