Lizzie and Margaret Rose /

Rushby, Pamela,

Lizzie and Margaret Rose / Pamela Rushby. - 263 pages ; 20 cm.

London, 1940: Bombs are falling and 10-year-old Margaret Rose survives a deadly raid, but her family home is destroyed. In faraway Townsville in Queensland, her aunt is ready to take her in, although her 11-year-old cousin Lizzie is not so sure. But first there is a long and dangerous voyage to a strange country, also at war. Margaret Rose knows it is not going to be easy, and Lizzie is not about to make it any easier.

For primary school age.

9781742991528


Immigrant children--Queensland--Townsville--Juvenile fiction.
Extended families--Queensland--Townsville--Juvenile fiction.
Orphans--England--Juvenile fiction.
Life change events--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Juvenile fiction.


Townsville (Qld.)--Juvenile fiction.

A823.3