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Escape from Cockatoo Island (My Australian Story)
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Escape from Cockatoo Island (My Australian Story)
Contributors:
By (Author) Yvette Poshoglian
Series:
Publisher:
Scholastic Australia
Imprint:
Omnibus Books
Publication Date:
1st January 2021
Country:
Australia
Classifications
Readership:
Children
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Fiction
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
208
Description
It is 1879 and life in the Biloela Industrial School is tough for eleven-year-old orphan, Olivia Markham. Her windswept days are filled with sewing, washing, aimless roaming, avoiding the girls from the Reformatory School, and hoping to be apprenticed by the colony. Sydney is rapidly growing and modernising, but Olivia can only imagine what life is like beyond the shores of Cockatoo Island. She dreams of freedom, friendship and, above all, family. Can she ever escape
