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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
9780732290214
Bind Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Waltz for Matilda
In 1894 twelve-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to find her unknown father and his farm. But as drought bites deep her father has turned swaggie, member of the Shearersâ² Union. Heâ²s wanted by the troopers for burning down a shearing shed, and his daughter has to watch as the terrifying events by the billabong unfold. Youâ²ll never take me alive, said he. With the enigmatic brown-skinned Auntie Love, eccentric shearers, and the autocratic Mr Drinkwater, Matilda fights to live her fatherâ²s dream: to breed the best sheep in the district, while a nation is created from a collection of colonies at the bottom of the world. Set against drought, flood, bushfire, war and jubilation, this is a story rooted in the words of our most famous national song, Waltzing Matilda. It is a love-song to a land and to a nation, told from the points of view of those who had no vote in 1901: the women, the Indigenous people, the Chinese market-gardeners, the Afghan traders. It is the story of how we became Australia. Ages 10-14