Waves / Donna Rawlins ; illustrations by Mark Jackson and Heather Potter.
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TextPublisher: Newtown, N.S.W. : Walker Books Australia, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 33 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925381641Subject(s): Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction | Boat people -- Juvenile fiction | Political refugees -- Juvenile fiction | Refugees -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. Summary: Every journey is perilous, every situation heartbreaking. Every refugee is a person forced by famine or war or fear to leave their home, their families, their friends and all they know. Children have travelled on the waves of migration to the shores of Australia for tens of thousands of years. This book tells some of their stories.Waves is a book about the waves of migration to the shores of Australia.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Junior Non Fiction | Australian Stories | J 325 RAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111074264100 |
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"If you are not an indigenous Australian, your family have, at some stage, come to Australia from across the waves. The characters in this book are fictitious, but the types of journeys they take in these stories were very real"--[page 32]
6+ years old.
Every journey is perilous, every situation heartbreaking. Every refugee is a person forced by famine or war or fear to leave their home, their families, their friends and all they know. Children have travelled on the waves of migration to the shores of Australia for tens of thousands of years. This book tells some of their stories.Waves is a book about the waves of migration to the shores of Australia.
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