Australia, 1960s. For thirteen years Odette raised her fair-skinned granddaughter Sissy without drawing notice from the authorities who remove fair-skinned Aboriginal children from their families. But the arrival of a new policeman with...
Aboriginal Australians
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Author:Birch, TonySummary: -
Author:HAY, SarahSummary:Story of an English woman shipwrecked off the WA coast in the 1830's.
- Author:McLAREN, PhilipSummary:
New Year's Day in Sydney. The bodies of an aboriginal woman and her boyfriend are found, brutally murdered. Koori detectives Gary Leslie and Lisa Fuller are assigned to catch the serial killer before he strikes again but to no...
- Author:Siggins, MaggieSummary:
Scattered Bones is a story of the complicated, fragile and sometimes fatal relations between Indigenous people and settlers in Northern Saskatchewan in the 1920s. Aboriginal spiritual traditions are beginning to cross paths with the...
- Author:Gilbert, KevinSummary:
A celebration of a special friendship between a little boy and a kangaroo, this is a story for all ages, a lyrical, moving tale to be shared again and again. Me and Mary Kangaroo was a true story from Kevin's childhood memories.
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Author:Pascoe, BruceSummary:The Little Red Yellow Black Book is an accessible and highly illustrated pocket-sized guide. It?s an invaluable introduction to Australia?s rich Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture. It takes a non-chronological...
- Author:Heiss, AnitaSummary:
What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors...
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Author:Stringer, TriciaSummary:1881. Joseph Baker works hard on his pastoral lease at Smith's Ridge, in the beautiful but harsh land of the Flinders Ranges. For Joseph this lease, lost to his family in the early days of settlement, offers a future for his young...
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Author:Gwynne, PhillipSummary:Fourteen-year-old Gary Black's life in Australia centers around his large family and footy (Australian football), until he becomes friends with an Aborigine boy and realizes how horrible prejudice can be.
- Author:Hill, DavidSummary:
From the bestselling author of 1788. The remarkable story of the fledgling settlement that survived against the odds. Bestselling historian David Hill tells the story of the first three decades of Britain's earliest colony in...
