A Prayer For Blue Delaney

Author : Kirsty Murray
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9781865087368
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Prayer for Blue Delaney written by Kirsty Murray and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colm was one of many orphans enduring the cruelties of life on Bindoon Boy's Home - He siezes his chance to escape and teams up with an old man, Billy Dare and his dog Rusty - Together they travel through Western Australia and form a strong friendship that strengthens them both.

Author : K. Sands-O'Connor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137360313
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Internationalism in Children's Series written by K. Sands-O'Connor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationalism in Children's Series brings together international children's literature scholars who interpret 'internationalism' through various cultural, historical and theoretical lenses. From imperialism to transnationalism, from Tom Swift to Harry Potter, this book addresses the unique ability of series to introduce children to the world.

Author : Kirsty Murray
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742692303
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of Maeve Lee Kwong written by Kirsty Murray and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I keep thinking I'll see him any moment. It's crazy. I don't even know what he looks like. And it shouldn't matter that I can't find him. I've been fine for 14 years without him. Sorry, this is a stupid email. Hope everything in Sydney is cool. MLK She was just about to log off when a new message popped into her mailbox. It was from Jackson. It was short and to the point and just what she needed to hear. Hey MLK. It is important. Go for it. Find him. xxxxxxx Love you all ways, JDT. Maeve's safe world is torn apart when her mother dies in a car crash. Sent to live with her strict Chinese grandparents, she fights to hold onto the things she loves most - her two best friends, her dancing, her baby brother Ned. Secretly she pins her hopes on her Irish father, who doesn't even know she exists. From Sydney to Surfers, from Hong Kong to Ireland, Maeve searches for a path to follow, a place to belong. A story about true friends, scattered family, and the life you make for yourself.

Author : Philip Nel
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479899674
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keywords for Children's Literature, Second Edition written by Philip Nel and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces key terms, global concepts, debates, and histories for Children's Literature in an updated edition Over the past decade, there has been a proliferation of exciting new work across many areas of children’s literature and culture. Mapping this vibrant scholarship, the Second Edition of Keywords for Children’s Literature presents original essays on essential terms and concepts in the field. Covering ideas from “Aesthetics” to “Voice,” an impressive multidisciplinary cast of scholars explores and expands on the vocabulary central to the study of children’s literature. The second edition of this Keywords volume goes beyond disciplinary and national boundaries. Across fifty-nine print essays and nineteen online essays, it includes contributors from twelve countries and an international advisory board from over a dozen more. The fully revised and updated selection of critical writing—more than half of the essays are new to this edition—reflects an intentionally multinational perspective, taking into account non-English traditions and what childhood looks like in an age of globalization. All authors trace their keyword’s uses and meanings: from translation to poetry, taboo to diversity, and trauma to nostalgia, the book’s scope, clarity, and interdisciplinary play between concepts make this new edition of Keywords for Children’s Literature essential reading for scholars and students alike.

Author : Kirsty Murray
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1743438818
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year It All Ended written by Kirsty Murray and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Tiney Flynn's seventeenth birthday, every church bell tolled as if heralding a new year, a new era. Tiney stood in the garden, purple jacaranda petals fluttering down around her. One by one, her sisters came outside to join her; first Nette, then Minna and lastly Thea. It was 11 November 1918. Armistice Day. For Tiney and her sisters, everything is about to change, but not in the way they might have imagined. Building peace is complicated; so is growing up. From tragedy to undreamt-of joy, from weddings to sÚances, from masked balls to riots in the streets, TineyÆs world will be transformed. At the end of the war and the dawn of the Jazz Age, Tiney Flynn must face her greatest fears and begin a journey that will change her destiny. æI loved this book for its emotional intensity, for the strong, believable characters and for its accurate portrayal of a period in history so often forgotten.Æ Maureen McCarthy

Author : Kirsty Murray
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1760871028
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kids Who Did: Real kids who ruled, rebelled, survived and thrived written by Kirsty Murray and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the future looks dark, courageous kids bring light and hope into the world. Forty true stories celebrate kids who have protested, prayed, rebelled, saved lives, earned a fortune, lost everything, become world-famous, or fought to survive war and oppression. Fearless kids, feral kids, Olympic champions, human-rights crusaders, climate-change warriors, princes and prisoners, workers and whiz-kids - they all show the true courage of kids. From the distant past to the present moment, kids have made their mark on history; and now they're set to change the world.

Author : Kirsty Murray
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742692281
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bridie's Fire written by Kirsty Murray and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridie's world is torn apart when her parents and baby brother die in the Great Hunger. She leaves Ireland, and strikes out alone to claim a life for herself in Australia, on the other side of the ocean. Bridie's Fire is heart-warming story of courage and resilience. It affirms Kirsty Murray's keen understanding of the human spirit. Starting in the 1840s and ending in present-day Australia. The Children of the Wind quartet tells the stories of four courageous young people, Bridie, Billy, Colm and Maeve, born fifty years apart. The central character from each book becomes a mentor to the child in the next. A well crafted and finely tuned historical novel...a rollicking adventure. - Children's Book Council, Notable Books 2004 I loved it! Really, I couldn't put it down. It's such an inspiration . . . my favourite book in the world. - Georgia, Year 8

Author : Kirsty Murray
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742692273
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Billy Dare written by Kirsty Murray and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paddy secretly boards a ship bound for Australia, only to be shipwrecked at the end of the voyage. Once rescued, he faces the big question: how is he to make his way in this strange new land? On the road with a travelling circus, on the run with a wild child, sleeping rough on the mean streets of Melbourne, Paddy finds help and friendship with Bridie, and learns to live by his wits. Each adventure brings him closer to discovering his true gift. Character, choice and destiny intertwine in this richly detailed historical novel. Meticulous research . . . Becoming Billy Dare is, above all, an entertaining book that invites readers and provides inspiration. Jill Swann, Teacher-Librarian. Starting in the 1840s and ending in present-day Australia, the Children of the Wind quartet tells the stories of four courageous young people, Bridie, Billy, Colm and Maeve, born fifty years apart. The central character from each book becomes a mentor to the child in the next. ending in present-day Australia, the Children of the Wild quartet tells the stories of four courageous young people, Bridie, Billy, Colm and Maeve, born fifty years apart. The central character from each book becomes a mentor to the child in the next.

Author : Nell Musgrove
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319939009
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Slow Evolution of Foster Care in Australia written by Nell Musgrove and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​This book draws on archival, oral history and public policy sources to tell a history of foster care in Australia from the nineteenth century to the present day. It is, primarily, a social history which places the voices of people directly touched by foster care at the centre of the story, but also within the wider social and political debates which have shaped foster care across more than a century. The book confronts foster care’s difficult past—death and abuse of foster children, family separation, and a general public apathy towards these issues—but it also acknowledges the resilience of people who have survived a childhood in foster care, and the challenges faced by those who have worked hard to provide good foster homes and to make child welfare systems better. These are themes which the book examines from an Australian perspective, but which often resonate with foster care globally.

Author : Kirsty Murray
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742692346
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vulture's Gate written by Kirsty Murray and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One girl - could she be the last girl alive? One boy, pursued by reckless men who have kidnapped him from his fathers. Bo and Callum go in search of a safe haven, a place to call home. But where can they turn and who can they trust? When every stranger is a threat, does their only hope lie in reaching Vulture's Gate? Following a journey that takes them across barren deserts and lost valleys, Bo and Callum must discover how to survive alongside runaway boys and crazed religious terrorists, in a world with an uncertain future. And what is the disturbing secret at the ruined city's core?