Title Escape from Cockatoo Island / Yvette Poshoglian

Published Lindfield, N.S.W. : Scholastic Australia, 2013 ©2013

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Description 175 pages ; 20 cm regular print Series My Australian story Poshoglian, Yvette. My Australian story My Australian story Summary It is 1879 and life in the Biloela Industrial School is tough for eleven-year- old Olivia Markham. Her days are filled with sewing, washing, and avoiding the girls from the Reformatory School. Sydney is rapidly growing and modernising, but Olivia can only imagine what life is like beyond the shores of Cockatoo Island. Can she ever escape? Analysis Australian Australian historical fiction Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Audience For primary school age Subject Orphans -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Juvenile fiction. Children's stories. Orphans -- Juvenile fiction. SUBJECT Sydney (N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021855 -- History -- 19th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006167 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687 Cockatoo Island (N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007212 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687 Genre/Form Historical fiction, Australian Fiction. Juvenile works. Fiction. ISBN 9781742832456 (paperback)

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