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Flora's War by Pamela Rushby
$18.95 AUD
$24.99 (24% off)
Category: Teenage
It's 1915 and sixteen - year - old Australian, Flora Wentworth, is visiting Cairo with her archaeologist father. She watches with growing alarm as first a trickle and then a flood of wounded soldiers are shipped into the city from Gallipoli. Flora's comfortable life is turned upside down when a hospital ...Show more
Interned (CBCA Notable 2023) by Pamela Rushby
$17.99 AUD
Category: Teenage
Based on true events, Interned is a moving, well-researched and evocative historical fiction novel that highlights an often forgotten moment in Australian history. It’s 1914. Gretta lives a privileged life in Singapore, the daughter of a businessman; Tilly lives a modest life in Brisbane, the daughter ...Show more
Lizzie and Margaret Rose by Pamela Rushby
$16.99 AUD
Category: Young Readers
London, 1940. Bombs are falling and 10-year-old Margaret Rose survives a deadly raid, but her family home is destroyed. In faraway Townsville in Queensland, her aunt is ready to take her in, although her 11-year-old cousin Lizzie is not so sure. But first there is a long and dangerous voyage to a strang ...Show more
Princess Parsley by Pamela Rushby
$14.99 AUD
$17.00 (11% off)
Category: Young Readers
Could there possibly be anything more absolutely, mega embarrassing than being called Parsley? You bet. After a disagreement with the local council, Parsleys dad decides to set up his own principality, making 12-year-old Parsley - Princess Parsley! How about that for making you popular in your first yea ...Show more
Secret Battle by Pamela Rushby
$17.99 AUD
Category: Teenage
Nine-year-old city newspaper seller Roddy becomes involved in the infamous Battle of Brisbane in 1942: when American and Australian servicemen fought against each other, rioting in the streets of the city for two days. When Roddy helps an American serviceman who's been involved in the fighting, he never ...Show more
Sing A Rebel Song by Pamela Rushby
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction
It's 1891. Maggie McAllister and her family are caught up in one of the most dramatic events in Australia's history: the Shearers Strike. The trouble that erupts between the Shearers Union, the pastoralists and the government has never been seen before on the quiet streets of Barcaldine. Maggie plays he ...Show more
The Horses Didn't Come Home by Pamela Rushby
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction
A story about a boy, a horse and the last great calvary charge in history. The last great cavalry charge in history took place at Beersheba in the Sinai Desert in 1917. It was Australian soldiers and horses that took part in, and won, this amazing, unexpected, unorthodox victory. The men proudly claimed ...Show more
The Mud Puddlers by Pamela Rushby
$17.99 AUD
Category: Young Readers
What lies hidden in the mud? What might happen if you look at it too long? And what will happen if you let it go? Twelve-year-old Nina is not happy. Her scientist parents are spending a year in Antarctica. And Nina's being sent to London to stay with her Aunt Bee, an intertidal archaeologist, who lives ...Show more
The Mummy Smugglers of Crumblin Castle by Pamela Rushby
$17.99 AUD
Category: Young Readers
A crumbling castle, a moat full of crocodiles, a catastrophe of kittens, and let's not forget the villains and the mummies! This rambunctious story has it all. It's England, 1873. When 12-year-old Hatshepsut (Hattie) Lambton's guardian is unfortunately eaten by a crocodile, Hattie is sent to live with h ...Show more
The Ratcatcher's Daughter by Pamela Rushby
$16.99 AUD
$19.99 (15% off)
Category: Children's Non Fiction
It's 1900. Thirteen-year-old Issy McKelvie leaves school and starts her first job - very reluctantly - as a maid in an undertaking establishment. She thinks this is about as low as you can go. But there's worse to come. Issy becomes an unwilling rat-catcher when the plague - the Black Death - arrives in ...Show more
Those Girls by Pamela Rushby
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
New, from award-winning historical novelist, Pamela Rushby, exploring the roles, and struggles, of women in wartime The poster had a picture of a tanned, healthy girl, wearing a regulation uniform hat and shorts that were, surely, anything but regulation. When Hilly volunteers for the Women's Land Arm ...Show more
When the Hipchicks Went to War by Pamela Rushby
$16.99 AUD
$19.99 (15% off)
Category: Teenage
Going to a war is just about the last thing on sixteen-year-old Kathys mind. It is the 1960s, there are miniskirts to wear, Beatles and Stones music to listen to and discos to go to. There is the Vietnam War, of course, but that is way in the background. While training as a hairdresser in Brisbane, Kath ...Show more
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