Title The long walk / Kerry Greenwood

Published Sydney : Hodder Headline Australia, 2004

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
MELB CRC	JUNIOR FICTION Gre/Lwa		AVAILABLE

Description 246 pages ; 20 cm regular print Series Premier's Reading Challenge, 7-9 Premier's Reading Challenge, 7-9 Summary Set in 1930's Australia, when Isa's mother falls ill and is sent to a rest home, Isa gathers together her brothers and sister and sets off to find her father who is away working on the Great Ocean Road. It is a long walk, and the children have to face the dangers and hardships of a country suffering the Depression. But on their journey, Isa soon learns that most people will give everything they have to help a small courageous family survive, and some will do anything to stop them. Suggested level: primary, intermediate Notes ainsworth Audience For children aged 10-12 years Subject Premier's Reading Challenge -- Year 7 - Year 9 Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction. Australian fiction. Fathers and daughters -- Australia -- Fiction. Nineteen thirties. Fathers and daughters -- Fiction. Family life -- Australia -- Fiction. Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction. Depressions -- Juvenile fiction. Fathers and daughters -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction. Nineteen thirties -- Juvenile fiction. SUBJECT Australia -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311 -- 20th century -- Fiction Genre/Form Australiana Australian fiction Sagas. Australian fiction Children's stories, Australian Historical fiction. Historical fiction. Juvenile works. ISBN 0733617662 paperback

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