OUR AUSTRALIAN GIRL

The LINA STORIES

The full set of 4 stories about Lina, a passionate girl finding a place to belong

by SALLY RIPPIN

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New hardcover book. Published 2017, 470 pages, with an extra bonus chapter on what happened next for Lina. Delightful illustrations by Lucia Masciullo. Reading age: 8 - 11 years.

* The Lina books, 1956 by Sally Rippin

It's 1956 . . .
and Lina lives in Carlton with her family. She dreams of being a writer, but her strict Italian parents have other ideas. Lina has been awarded a scholarship to an expensive private girls school and she struggles to fit in with the other students there - to Lina it sometimes feels as if she comes from a different world! When Lina and some of the other students start a school newspaper, it leads to events Lina would never have imagined.

It's an exciting time in Melbourne with the Olympic Games are being held in the city that year, the first time ever in the Southern Hemisphere! And television has arrived in Australia, with people crowding around department store windows to catch a glimpse of this marvellous new technology. Lina's story, told in four dramatic instalments, explores the waves of post-war migration and how Melbourne was a changing place as a result.

Journey with Lina across all four exciting stories about a passionate girl finding a place to belong.

Imaginative, kind and hard-working, Lina is an unforgettable Australian Girl.

1. Meet Lina
2. Lina's Many Lives
3. Lina at the Games
4. A Lesson for Lina

About the author

Sally Rippin is a published author and an illustrator of children's books. Sally's books include Becoming Buddha: The Story of Siddhartha, Gezani and the Tricky Baboon, The Shape and the Billie B Brown and Hey Jack! series.

More about the Our Australian Girl series:

Our Australian Girl is a new series of historical novels for girls published by Puffin Books Australia. Each story in the series is set in a particular era of Australian history - the convict era, colonisation, the effects of the Irish famine, the goldrush, Federation, the Depression and the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. All written by highly acclaimed Australian authors, they feature strong plots, colourful and varied characters and genuine, likeable heroines.

The covers of the Our Australian Girl books are designed to appeal to pre-teen girls, with a logo of a locket and charm bracelet, enduring symbols of girlhood. Inside, an array of emotional experiences awaits readers with engaging descriptions of life as it once was and suspenseful plots about things such as family, friendship, betrayal, loneliness, standing up for what's right and surviving in a dangerous world. Our Australian Girl focuses on the fortunes of eleven likeable young girls: Grace, Letty, Poppy, Rose, Nellie, Alice, Ruby, Lina, Pearlie, Daisy and Marley. Each of their stories begins in a different era and each character has their own series of four books with a distinct voice and personality. It's their stories, their dramas, hopes and dreams that illuminate Australia's past, its rich diversity and the independent spirit that was fundamental to the building of a nation.

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Our Australian Girl The Lina Stories 4 books in one by Sally Rippin