Those girls / Pamela Rushby.
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TextPublisher: Gadigal and Wangal Country ; Newtown, NSW : Walker Books Australia, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: 321 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760657840 (paperback)Subject(s): Australian Women's Land Army -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Australia -- Fiction | Queensland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Australia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Australian fictionGenre/Form: Young adult fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: New, from award-winning historical novelist, Pamela Rushby, exploring the roles, and struggles, of women in wartime. The poster had a picture of a tanned, healthy girl, wearing a regulation uniform hat and shorts that were, surely, anything but regulation. When Hilly volunteers for the Women's Land Army in 1942, she's sixteen years old. She expects to be picking sun-kissed fruit and bottle-feeding fluffy white lambs, all while she's wearing a flattering outfit. Travelling to farms across Queensland, Hilly encounters backbreaking work, but also friendship and fellowship with other Land Army girls, Aileen and Glad, all seeking independence for their own reasons. War is a chance for a life away from family and familiarity, offering adventure and romance. But the poster didn't mention crutching sheep or 4 am starts. Or the prejudice they would face, and that some men needed to be fought off, rather than fought for. In the midst of adversity, Hilly finds exactly what she is capable of ... and it might be more than she ever thought possible. She is one of 'those girls with grit'.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Young Adult | JF RUS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111089604571 |
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13+ years old.
New, from award-winning historical novelist, Pamela Rushby, exploring the roles, and struggles, of women in wartime. The poster had a picture of a tanned, healthy girl, wearing a regulation uniform hat and shorts that were, surely, anything but regulation. When Hilly volunteers for the Women's Land Army in 1942, she's sixteen years old. She expects to be picking sun-kissed fruit and bottle-feeding fluffy white lambs, all while she's wearing a flattering outfit. Travelling to farms across Queensland, Hilly encounters backbreaking work, but also friendship and fellowship with other Land Army girls, Aileen and Glad, all seeking independence for their own reasons. War is a chance for a life away from family and familiarity, offering adventure and romance. But the poster didn't mention crutching sheep or 4 am starts. Or the prejudice they would face, and that some men needed to be fought off, rather than fought for. In the midst of adversity, Hilly finds exactly what she is capable of ... and it might be more than she ever thought possible. She is one of 'those girls with grit'.
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