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Provides access to the printed True Book series in the form of eBooks. There are also accompanying videos and other activities to supplement the books. This is a great resource for elementary students, in grades 3 to 6, doing research on science or social studies topics.
1) Rogue nation
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Historian Michael Cathcart tells the epic story of how the colourful characters of early colonial Australia transformed a penal settlement into a land with rights and opportunity in a mere 40 years. This sweeping two-part dramatised documentary covers formative events in Australia's history, including the Rum Rebellion and early court cases, which established independence and civil rights for all settlers. Rogue Nation explores how a fledgling colony...
Author
Language
English
Description
Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon's invasion of England, Temeraire the dragon and his friend and rider, Capt. Will Laurence, are transported to the prison colony in Australia. They carry with them three dragon eggs intended to help establish a covert in the colony.
Author
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Golden Age SF meets Golden Age Crime from the author of Swiftly, New Model Army, and Yellow Blue Tibia?an innovative literary voice working at the height of his powers Jack Glass is the murderer?we know this from the start. Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of three murders committed by Glass, the reader will be surprised to find out that it was Glass who was the killer and how he did it. And by the end of the book our sympathies for...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A story of Grenville's ancestors, who wrested a new life from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people. William Thornhill, a Thames bargeman, is deported to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia in 1806. In this new world of convicts and charlatans, Thornhill tries to pull his family into a position of power and comfort. When he rounds a bend in the Hawkesbury River and sees a gentle slope of land, he becomes determined...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay have received threatening messages demanding they return home. They have a sneaking suspicion that their villainous parents are behind the messages, and something Evie sees in her Magic Mirror confirms their fears. Although Maleficent's just a tiny lizard after her confrontation with Mal, could she have found a way to escape? Mal and her friends determine to sneak back to the Isle to get to the bottom of the mystery.
8) You wouldn't want to be an 18th-century British convict!: a trip to Australia you'd rather not take
Author
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2007, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A humorous account of how a British thief would have been punished in the eighteenth century by being sent to Australia in 1785.
Author
Series
Descendants volume 2
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Mal and her friends receive threatening messages demanding they return home, they suspect the culprit is related to their villainous parents.
Author
Series
Descendants volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost, the teenaged children of Disney's most evil villains search for a dragon's eye--the key to true darkness and the villains' only hope of escape.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
In 1789, 237 women convicts left England for Sydney Cove in Australia on board a ship called The Lady Julian, destined to provide sexual services and a breeding bank for the men already there. This is the story of the women aboard that ship.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost, the teenaged children of Disney's most evil villains search for a dragon's eye--the key to true darkness and the villains' only hope of escape.
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