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Our Australian Girl: Meet Ruby (Book 1)
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Our Australian Girl: Meet Ruby (Book 1)
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Penny Matthews
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:144 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 128 |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780143307426
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| Classifications | Dewey:A823.00 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Penguin Random House Australia
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| Imprint |
Puffin
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| Publication Date |
30 January 2013 |
| Publication Country |
Australia
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Description
Meet Ruby and join her adventure in the first of four stories about a happy-go-lucky girl in a time of great change. It's 1930 and Ruby Quinlan lives in a big house in Adelaide with her parents and her fox terrier, Baxter. As she gets ready for her twelfth birthday party, Ruby has never been happier. But the world she knows is collapsing, and people everywhere are losing their jobs and their homes. Soon Ruby's comfortable life falls apart in ways she could never have imagined...
Author Biography
Penny Matthews is a freelance writer and editor based in Adelaide. She has written YA and junior novels, chapter books for beginning readers, and picture books for all age groups. Her picture books include Pudding and Chips (a CBCA Notable Book in 2005), Little Red Bear (shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards in 2004) and A Year On Our Farm, which was the CBCA's 2003 Book of the Year (Early Childhood) and a CBCA Honour Book in the Picture Book of the Year category. In 2010 Something About Water was joint winner of the Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Literature. A Girl Like Me, her first young adult novel, was also a 2010 CBCA Notable Book and won the Sisters in Crime's 2011 Davitt Award for Young Adult Fiction.
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