Shauna's Great Expectations

Author: Kathleen Loughnan

Publisher: Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen and Unwin.  2019

Shauna's Great Expectations

A beautiful and engaging novel by an Aboriginal author, highlighting a strong female Aboriginal lead, Shauna who is studying in final year at a private school having great expectations from her life. Away from her family, experiences of dorm life, her own negativism, expectations and weight of cultural differences makes her choices limited and difficult. Beautifully written, engaging and thought provoking dialogues makes it a worth read.

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Inheritance

Author: Carole Wilkinson

Publisher: Newtown, New South Wales: Walker Books Australia, 2018

Inheritance

A compelling and exciting time-travel novel takes readers along a historical journey that is but dark and shocking. A young girl, Nic is sent in the care of her maternal grandfather at the remote family home with thirty rooms, three dogs and no mobile signals. Living there, as she discovers an incredible inheritance she finds out the secret to time travel. A confronting novel, based on true events, written by award-winning author Carole Wilkinson deals with the massacre of the local Gulidjan people in 1839.

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