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Our Australian Girl: The Rose Stories (1900) (4 book bind-up) (HB) by Sherryl Clark
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl Ser.
Independent, adventurous and courageous, Rose is an unforgettable Australian Girl. It's 1900 . . . Rose lives with her family in a big house in Melbourne. She wants to play cricket and have adventures but Rose's conservative mother won't let her. Then young Aunt Alice, a feisty suffragette, moves in wit ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: The Ruby Stories by Penny Matthews
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl Ser.
It's 1930 . . . and Ruby Quinlan lives in a big house in Adelaide with her parents and her fox terrier, Baxter. As she prepares for her twelfth birthday party, Ruby has never been happier, but the world outside is experiencing harder times. Ruby knows that lots of people are losing their jobs, but her o ...Show more
Peacetime for Alice (Our Australian Girl - Alice #4) by Davina Bell
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl
Its' 1919 . . . and Alice is busy looking after Mama, practising her dancing, and trying to cheer up her brother Teddy now that he's back from the war. Alice soon comes up with a brilliant idea - a big event that is sure to make Teddy happy again. Will Alice's grand plan work out in the way she hopes? A ...Show more
Ruby and the Country Cousins (Our Australian Girl - Ruby #2) by Penny Matthews
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl Ruby #2
It's 1931 . . . and Ruby and her family have lost everything in the Great Depression. Leaving behind her dad, her school friends and everything she knows, Ruby must move to Kettle Farm to stay with her cousins. Life in the country is new and strange, and Ruby has never felt like such an outsider. Thankf ...Show more
Ruby of Kettle Farm (Our Australian Girl - Ruby #4) by Penny Matthews; Lucia Masciullo (Illustrator)
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1930 Ser.
Follow Ruby and join her adventure in the final of four stories about a happy-go-lucky girl in a time of great change.It's 1931, and Kettle Farm is starting to feel like home, but Ruby is still desperately worried about her dad. He hasn't written for weeks, and nobody knows where he is. Will Dad ever co ...Show more
School Days for Ruby (Our Australian Girl - Ruby #3) by Penny Matthews; Lucia Masciullo (Illustrator)
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1930 Ser.
It's 1931 . . .and Ruby is settling into life at her school in the country. But when a desperately poor family moves to the area, no one wants to be friends with them. Ruby will have to choose sides, and she has already made one enemy at school - Doris Spinks. Will Ruby do what she believes is right? An ...Show more
The Alice Stories 1918: Our Australian Girl (4 book bind-up) (HB) by Davina Bell; Lucia Masciullo (Illustrator)
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1918 Ser.
Four stories in one, all about Alice, a WWI-era girl who dreams of becoming a ballerina It's 1918 and Alice's deepest wish is to be a professional ballerina. But as World War One tears her family apart, a battle is being fought in her heart. Can Alice keep everyone together and still make her dreams ...Show more