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Amazing Australians in Their Flying Machines (HB) by Prue Mason; Kerry Mason; Tom Jellett (Illustrator)
Category: Educational
Author and licensed pilot Prue Mason shares how a handful of early aviators helped Australia reach beyond its borders to lands far away. Imagine what it was like to travel to far-off places before there were aeroplanes. For early 20th-century Australians, it could take days, weeks, or months just to ge ...Show more
Birdie in the Sky (Aussie Chomps) by Prue Mason
Category: Children's | Series: Aussie Chomps
Birdie and her dad love being up in the sky in their Tiger Moth, Peggybelle. That is, until a terrible accident makes it a matter of life and death, and Birdie finds herself flying the plane alone!
Camel Rider by Prue Mason
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Adam and his family live in a compound with other foreigners who work in the Middle East. He's got everything he wants, everything he needs, and there's a lot he takes for granted.Then war breaks out, and, in the confusion to escape, Adam runs away. It seems like the only thing to do, but when he finds ...Show more
Destination Abudai by Prue Mason
Category: Children's
At first, going to Abudai seems like a wonderful dream, but when Jaz flies to the Arabian Gulf to meet his father, who has a very senior role in government, he finds himself embroiled in dangerous family politics, made even more perilous by his lack of cultural understanding. A fascinating and fast-pac ...Show more
Max: Through My Eyes - Australian Disaster Zones by Prue Mason
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Through My Eyes - Australian Disaster Zones Ser.
The kayak rolled as Max tried to get into it. The shock of capsizing into the cold, dirty water made him gasp and swallow some of it. It tasted muddy and disgusting. Was he going to drown? His chest thudded as he fought the floodwater gushing around him. How long could he hold his breath? He could feel ...Show more
Zafir (Through My Eyes) by Prue Mason
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Through My Eyes
A gripping story of one child's experience of the civil war in Syria Zafir has a comfortable life in Homs, Syria, until his father, a doctor, is arrested for helping a protester who was campaigning for revolution. While his mother heads to Damascus to try to find out where his father is being held, ...Show more
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