Interned / Pamela Rushby.
Material type: TextPublisher: Newtown, NSW : Walker Books, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 241 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760653019Subject(s): Germans -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction | World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction | World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, Australian -- Juvenile fiction | Concentration camp inmates -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction | Detention of persons -- Australia -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Australian fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: It's 1914. Gretta lives a privileged life in Singapore, the daughter of a businessman; Tilly lives a modest life in Brisbane, the daughter of a baker. When war breaks out and both countries turn on their families for being German, the two girls find themselves taken from their homes, interned at a camp in rural New South Wales. Far away from everything they have ever known, Gretta and Tilly are forced to face prejudice, overcome adversity and to make their own community.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references.
Pre-adolescent.
It's 1914. Gretta lives a privileged life in Singapore, the daughter of a businessman; Tilly lives a modest life in Brisbane, the daughter of a baker. When war breaks out and both countries turn on their families for being German, the two girls find themselves taken from their homes, interned at a camp in rural New South Wales. Far away from everything they have ever known, Gretta and Tilly are forced to face prejudice, overcome adversity and to make their own community.
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