Our Australian Girl: Ruby and the Country Cousins (Book 2)

Author:   Penny Matthews ,  Lucia Masciullo
Publisher:   Penguin Random House Australia
Edition:   2nd edition
Volume:   Bk. 2
ISBN:  

9780143307433


Pages:   144
Publication Date:   24 April 2013
Recommended Age:   From 6 to 8 years
Format:   Paperback
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Our Australian Girl: Ruby and the Country Cousins (Book 2)


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Meet Ruby and join her adventure in the second of four stories about a happy-go-lucky girl in a time of great change. It's 1931 . . . and Ruby and her family have lost everything in the Great Depression. Leaving behind her dad, her school friends and everything she knows, Ruby must move to Kettle Farm to stay with her cousins. Life in the country is new and strange, and Ruby has never felt like such an outsider. Thankfully she has her much-loved dog, Baxter, for company - until he gets up to mischief, and everything goes horribly wrong . . . Follow Ruby on her adventure in the second of four exciting stories about a happy-go-lucky girl in a time of great change.

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Author:   Penny Matthews ,  Lucia Masciullo
Publisher:   Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:   Puffin
Edition:   2nd edition
Volume:   Bk. 2
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 20.00cm
Weight:   0.140kg
ISBN:  

9780143307433


ISBN 10:   0143307436
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   24 April 2013
Recommended Age:   From 6 to 8 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Children's (6-12)
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Penny Matthews (Author) 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. Lucia Masciullo (Illustrator) Lucia Masciullo grew up in Livorno, Tuscany, among smells of saltiness and rosemary. She always loved painting and after graduating in Biology she decided to pursue her dream career as an artist. In 2006 she moved to Brisbane and since then has been happily working as a fine art painter and freelance illustrator. She has recently illustrated Sonya Hartnett's The Boy and Toy.

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