Ming and Ada Spark the Digital Age (The Girls Who Changed the World, #4) [Bolinda]

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The fourth book in the best-selling Jackie French historical series that places girls centre stage.

Ming Qong is convinced that girls have changed the world throughout history.

History's sister, the mysterious Herstory, believes that the more you know about the past, the better you can understand the future. And so she now sends Ming back in time to work as a maid in an isolated mansion in England to see a girl change the world in 1829.

But which girl The young mistress of the house is lying in bed blind and immobile, recovering from the measles. Abandoned by her aristocratic mother and other family, she may never walk or even read or write again.

Ming becomes friends with another scullery maid, Hephzibah, who longs to free slaves, as she and her parents had been. Hepzibah is also desperately teaching herself to read. But what hope has a scullery maid

When Hepzibah is accused of a crime that might send her to the gallows, it is up to Ming to prove her innocent, as well as find the person in this lonely house who will - surprisingly - help pioneer the computer revolution.

From one of the Australia's favourite writers comes an inspiring series for all the young people who will, one day, change the world.

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Jackie French AM is an award-winning writer, wombat negotiator, the 20142015 Australian Children's Laureate and the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. In 2016 Jackie became a Member of the Order of Australia for her contribution to children's literature and her advocacy for youth literacy. She is regarded as one of Australia's most popular children's authors and writes across all genres from picture books, history, fantasy, ecology and sci-fi to her much loved historical fiction for a variety of age groups. A book can change a child's life. A book can change the world' was the primary philosophy behind Jackie's two-year term as Laureate. jackiefrench.com facebook.com/authorjackiefrench