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Author Heiss, Anita, author

Title Our race for reconciliation / Anita Heiss
Published Sydney, N.S.W. : Scholastic Australia, 2017
Gosford, NSW : Scholastic Australia Pty Ltd, 2017
©2017

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 W'PONDS CRC  JUNIOR FICTION Hei/Orf  AVAILABLE
Description 202 pages ; 20 cm
Series My Australian story
My Australian story
Contents Ipswich, 2000 -- Winning isn't everything -- Still dancing like it's 1999 -- Dear Cathy -- Easter Bonnet -- Family, footy, and saying 'sorry' -- Road, tripping to Sydney -- Corroboree 2000 -- Playing tourists -- Brisbane March -- The olympics come to Ipswich -- NAIDOC Day -- Book week -- Games that bring a national together -- FBG -- A race to reconciliation
Summary Mel Gordon loves running, and watching Seinfeld, but mostly she loves Cathy Freeman. It's 2000 and the Olympics are going to be held in Australia. In a year of surprises, Mel finds out that Cathy Freeman is coming to talk to her school. And her family is heading to Sydney! It becomes an unforgettable journey to Corroboree 2000, bringing together all Australians as they march and sing and celebrate Australia's Indigenous heritage and also acknowledge past wrongs
Analysis Australian
Audience For secondary school age
Subject Freeman, Cathy, 1973-
Freeman, Cathy, 1973- -- Juvenile fiction.
SUBJECT Olympic Games (27th : 2000 : Sydney, N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95029966 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Olympic Games (27th : 2000 : Sydney, NSW) -- Juvenile fiction
Olympic Games (27th : 2000 : Sydney, N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95029966 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction.
Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile fiction.
Australian fiction.
Children's stories.
Indigenous peoples -- Australia -- Fiction.
Indigenous peoples -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction.
Olympic athletes -- Juvenile fiction.
Olympic athletes -- Australia -- Fiction.
Olympic athletes -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction.
Olympics -- Fiction.
Olympics -- Juvenile fiction.
Reconciliation -- Fiction.
Reconciliation -- Juvenile fiction.
Women Olympic athletes -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction.
ISBN 9781760276119 (paperback)
Other Titles My Australian story. Our race for reconcilation