My PlaceA unique, intimate history of Australia, featuring colorful illustrations and maps, starts in 1988 and works its way back two hundred years to 1788, telling the history of one particular place through the generations of children who have lived there. |
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User Review - aleader - LibraryThingMy Place tells the story of girl's house. It starts with the girl living there in the present time. Then it works backward in time to other children who lived in that same place. It goes by decades ... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| Title | My Place |
| Author | Nadia Wheatley |
| Illustrated by | Donna Rawlins |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1994 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Jan 2010 |
| ISBN | 0916291545, 9780916291549 |
| Length | 48 pages |
| Subjects | › › Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Australia & Oceania |
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