Author : Kirsty Murray
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 24,14 MB
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1865087378
Sent to live with her strict Chinese grandparents, and uncertain of her future and where she belongs, Maeve fights to cling to her earlier life and find her true self.
Author : K. Sands-O'Connor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137360313
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 : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1848777205
A vivid story of two girls' journey from Melbourne to Madras. MADRAS, 1910: two girls are caught up in a scandal that will change their lives forever. Singing and dancing across a hundred stages in a troupe of child performers, they travel by steam-train into the heart of India. But as one disaster follows another, money runs short and tempers fray, what must the girls do to protect themselves, and how many lives will be ruined if they try to break free?
Author : Kirsty Murray
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1742692281
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 : Jean Kwok
Publisher : Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594487569
Emigrating with her mother from Hong Kong to Brooklyn, Kimberly Chang begins a secret double life as an exceptional schoolgirl during the day and sweatshop worker at night, an existence also marked by a first crush and the pressure to save her family from poverty. A first novel.
Author : Claire Carmichael
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1741660475
ADS R US is set in a modern industrialised city in the near future, where advertising is a constant stream of inescapable information, and corporations sponsor everything from music to schools. Barrett Trent has been raised outside the mainstream society in a Luddite cult called Simplicity, but following the death of his uncle, he goes to live in the city with his Aunt Cara, Uncle Adrian and cousin, Taylor. But his aunt and uncle have a hidden agenda - they work for a company called Ads for Life, which promotes advertising and uses it covertly for political gain. They see Barrett as the perfect guinea pig for their experiments into the effect of advertising on an untouched mind. But Barrett may prove harder to crack than they think...
Author : Valerie Steeves
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0776622595
eGirls, eCitizens is a landmark work that explores the many forces that shape girls’ and young women’s experiences of privacy, identity, and equality in our digitally networked society. Drawing on the multi-disciplinary expertise of a remarkable team of leading Canadian and international scholars, as well as Canada’s foremost digital literacy organization, MediaSmarts, this collection presents the complex realities of digitized communications for girls and young women as revealed through the findings of The eGirls Project (www.egirlsproject.ca) and other important research initiatives. Aimed at moving dialogues on scholarship and policy around girls and technology away from established binaries of good vs bad, or risk vs opportunity, these seminal contributions explore the interplay of factors that shape online environments characterized by a gendered gaze and too often punctuated by sexualized violence. Perhaps most importantly, this collection offers first-hand perspectives collected from girls and young women themselves, providing a unique window on what it is to be a girl in today’s digitized society.
Author : Kirsty Murray
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1743434863
The room was full of moon shadows and dancing light. But it was the wall around the window that Lucy couldn't stop staring at, the one with the painting of Spring. It was as bright as a sunny day and the tiny yellow flowers that covered the fields were moving, as if a breeze had blown through the painting and set all the petals dancing. Lucy McKenzie can walk through walls. Sent to stay with her Aunt Big in a hidden valley, Lucy discovers the old house is full of mysteries. One hot night, she hears a voice calling from inside a painting on the dining-room wall... On the other side of the painting, Lucy meets three children. Together they race horses through the bush, battle fires and floods, and make friendships that will last a lifetime. But who are April, Tom and Jimmy Tiger, and what magic has drawn Lucy to them?
Author : Kirsty Murray
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1743438818
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
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 13,2 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1742692346
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?
