• Victorian Readers: Set 8 Books

    June 28, 2020 /

    The Victorian Readers covered each grade from Kinder to Grade 8. First published by the Victorian Education Department between 1928 and 1930. One-quarter of the content is Australian with the remainder from Britain, the United States and Europe. Book 2 recommended for AO1 Book 3 recommended for AO2

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  • My Brilliant Career

    June 27, 2020 /

    First published in 1901, this Australian classic recounts the live of 16-year-old Sybylla Melvyn. Trapped on her parents’ outback farm, she simultaneously loves bush life and hates the physical burdens it imposes. For Sybylla longs for a more refined, aesthetic lifestyle — to read, to think, to sing — but most of all to do great things. Suddenly her life is transformed. Whisked away to live on her grandmother’s gracious property, she falls under the eye of the rich and handsome Harry Beecham. And soon she finds herself choosing between everything a conventional life offers and her own plans for a ‘brilliant career’.   *Journey and Destination review

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  • The Nargun and the Stars

    June 27, 2020 /

    When Simon Brent’s parents are killed in a car accident he is taken to live with his mother’s second cousins, Edie and Charlie, on Wongadilla, their 5000 acre sheep run in the Hunter Valley. Simon, with his city attitudes feels like an outsider, unable even to bring himself to call his cousins by name. But Simon is not the only thing that doesn’t belong in Wongadilla. The arrival of heavy machinery intent on clearing the land brings to life the Nargun, a great rock, older than time itself, that has slowly dragged itself into the valley – and with it, a simmering rage that drives it to kill. Before long,…

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  • A Bush Calendar

    June 27, 2020 /

    Written as a first person monthly diary of the author’s wanderings in the bush around Sydney, illustrated with black and white photographs.   *Journey and Destination Review *A Peaceful Day Review

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