We Are Wolves by Katrina Nannestad
$19.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Sometimes it's good to be wild. Sometimes you have to be wild. When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the war, the Wolf family must flee. Liesl, Otto and their baby sister Mia find themselves lost and alone, in a blizzard, in the middle of a war zone. Liesl has promised Mama that ...Show more
Once a Shepherd by Glenda Millard
$27.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: 5+
In poignant verse, the story of one young shepherd makes the experience of soldiers in World War I accessible to children. Once there sang a carefree shepherdIn a field of emerald green . . .Once his world was all at peace. Here is the tale of Tom Shepherd, tending his lambs and shearing their f ...Show more
The Little Stowaway by Vicki Bennett
$26.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
France. Winter. 1918. The First World War is over. An brave and determined little French orphan, Honore, wanders through the snow, cold and hungry and lost. When he stumbles on the Australian Flying Corps and meets airman, Tim Tovell, his life is changed forever. This is a story of a remarkable little s ...Show more
The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adult
When the Blitz threatens the heart of a London neighbourhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to keep their community together in this heartwarming novel from the author of The Kitchen Front. On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn ...Show more
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Adult | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an 'enemy' p ...Show more
Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800 by Richard Broome
$39.99 AUD
Category: Adult
The story of how Victoria's First Nations people survived near decimation to become a vibrant community today. This second edition has been fully updated, and covers the Yoorrook Justice Commission and treaty negotiations. Early Europeans saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix-happy ...Show more
Jacqueline: A Soldier's Daughter by Pierre-Jacques Ober, Jules Ober
$24.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
From the studio of Pierre-Jacques and Jules Ober's Little Soldier Stories and Ford Street Publishing comes a new book -- Jacqueline. An only child, Jacqueline always dreamt of having a sister. Amid the turmoil of a world at war when the adults have seemingly gone mad, she embarks on a perilous journey a ...Show more
Let the Celebrations Begin! by Margaret Wild
$16.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
My name is Miriam, and this is where I live. Hut 18, bed 22. The younger children think they have always lived in the hut, but Miriam knows better. She remembers her parents and her home, with her very own toys. In this place there are no toys. So Miriam and the women come up with a special plan, to cel ...Show more
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda by Eric Bogle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
"But the band played 'Waltzing Matilda' when we stopped to bury our slain. We buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs; then we started all over again." Eric Bogle's famous and familiar Australian song about the Battle of Gallipoli explores the futility of war with haunting power. Now Bruce Whatley's ev ...Show more
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
$12.99 AUD
Category: Middle Reader
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukaemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
Rose Blanche by Ian McEwan, Roberto Innocenti
$18.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: From 5 To 7
Rose Blanche was the name of a group of young German citizens who, at their peril, protested against the war. Like them, Rose observes all the changes going on around her which others choose to ignore. She watches as the streets of her small German town fill with soldiers. One day she sees a little bo ...Show more