The Battle for Victoria Street (My Australian Story)
By (Author) Gabiann Marin
Scholastic Australia
Omnibus Books
1st May 2024
Australia
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: History and the past
Paperback
192
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 12mm
Victoria Street is a crossroads, like in those old stories of bushrangers and highwaymen. Its a place where everyone and everything crosses paths ... A street right out of a fairytale, I reckon. Its 1973, and 11-year-old Billie is living in the best street in the whole world: Victoria Street in Darlinghurst, Sydney. Billie cant imagine being anywhere else. But things are changing. Billies neighbours are being forced out of their homes, and scary people are patrolling the street, trying to get everyone to leave. Without realising it, Billie, her family and her neighbours find themselves caught up in one of the most important public protests in Sydneys history. The battle for Victoria Street is their fight to save their homes and their way of life from destruction.