Haywire (Australia's Second World War) by Claire Saxby
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's True Stories | Series: Australia's Second World War Ser.
In 1939, 14-year-old Tom lives in Hay where his family runs the local bakery. Max Gruber is nearly fourteen-years-old. He is sent to his Uncle Ferdy in London, but is then interred and shipped to Australia aboard the Dunera. He arrives in Hay and meets Tom. The two boys become friends and find their liv ...Show more
Gallipoli (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's True Stories
The attack has been timed to the minute. Thirty minutes from now well climb down the rope ladders in to the lighters and find our seat. Im one of the lucky ones. Ive been chosen as one of the 500 men from my battalion who will be in the first wave to land... The Turks wont know whats hit them... Two mil ...Show more
Women Who Changed the World: Penguin Readers Level 4 by Ladybird
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's True Stories
These are the stories of some of the women who changed our world. Read about the women who fought to be equal to men, and learn about the things that women have done in education, science, sport and politics. Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction and thought-pro ...Show more
Taking the Lead - How Jacinda Ardern Wowed the World by David Hill; Phoebe Morris
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's True Stories | Series: David Hill's Kiwi Legends
An inspiring illustrated story for children about Jacinda Ardern, and her meteoric rise to become the world's youngest female leader.Nobody is too young to start changing the world.When Jacinda was little, she wanted to be a clown. But when she saw schoolmates who didn't have lunch, or even shoes, she k ...Show more
Smith (Ultimate Football Heroes) by Charlotte Browne
$11.99 AUD
Category: Children's True Stories | Series: Ultimate Football Heroes
By the time Kelly Smith was nine years old, she was already so good she was running rings around the boys at her local club and scoring goals for fun. But angry parents complained she was making their sons look silly, and Kelly had to move to a girls' team. From that day, she knew she had to be twice as ...Show more
De Bruyne (Ultimate Football Heroes) by Matt Oldfield
$11.99 AUD
Category: Children's True Stories | Series: Ultimate Football Heroes
Meet Kevin de Bruyne--Ultimate Football Hero. Kevin de Bruyne is arguably Manchester City's best player. This is the story of how the young Belgian rose through the ranks, worked hard despite the difficulties he faced along the way, and showed courage and determination to prove his skill in the world's ...Show more
Messi (Ultimate Football Heroes) by Matt Oldfield
$11.99 AUD
Category: Children's True Stories | Series: Ultimate Football Heroes
But when was young, he was so small that his friends would call him 'Little Leo' and coaches worried he wasn't big enough to play. Yet through bravery, talent and hard work, he proved them all wrong. Little Lion tells the magical story of how the tiniest boy in South America grew up to become the greate ...Show more
Martin Luther King, Jr. (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's True Stories | Series: Little People, Big Dreams
From the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., the inspiring minister and civil rights activist. Little Martin grew up in a family of preachers: his dad was a preacher, his uncle was a preacher, his grandfather was a preacher...so maybe he'd ...Show more
David Attenborough (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's True Stories | Series: Little People, Big Dreams
In this book from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of David Attenborough, the inspiring broadcaster and conservationist. Little David grew up in Leicester on the campus of a university, where his father was a professor. As a child, he spent hours in the scien ...Show more
Gold Rush (Fair Dinkum Histories All the Stinky Bits) by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's True Stories | Series: FAIR DINKUM HISTORIES
Telling BITS of history as they really were! Gold fever hit Australia in the 1850s and it was the start of a wild, crazy hunt that saw people from all over the world come to try their luck. A few people might have dug up a fortune, but what most diggers dug was latrines. It turns out that the Gold Rush ...Show more
Azaria: A True History by Maree Coote
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's True Stories
What happens when the truth gets lost? Where wild animals and people meet, tragedy can strike, But when a tiny baby is stolen by a dingo, people simply cannot accept such a thing. Prejudice and gossip grip the nation, and the tragedy transforms into a fight for the truth. How did it all go so wrong? Thi ...Show more
Sheroes: Joan of Arc by Christine Platt
$10.99 AUD
Category: Children's True Stories | Series: Sheroes Ser.
This title introduces readers to Joan of Arc and how she became a shero to help deliver France from English domination. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards.