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Who am I? : the diary of Mary Talence / Anita Heiss.

Who am I? : the diary of Mary Talence / Anita Heiss.
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ISBN 9781865048581
1865048585 :
Author Heiss, Anita, 1968- (author)
Title Who am I? : the diary of Mary Talence / Anita Heiss.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Lindfield, NSW : Scholastic Press, 2006, reprinted 2007.
Description 199 pages ; 20 cm.
Series My Australian story
Note Previously published: 2001.
Summary YA. Mary's story, presented via her diary entries, begins at Bombaderry home for Aboriginal children. Mary has been living here since she was five, but remembers another home with her Mum and Dad and lots of brothers and sisters. Mary likes her family at Bombaderry, including her best friend Marj, and the babies she looks after, but she still misses her Mum and wonders why she doesn't come to visit. Mary's life changes again soon after the diary begins, when she is fostered by a white family. The diary follows her struggle to assimilate into the white society she finds herself living in.
Level For upper primary/lower secondary school children.
Subjects Children, Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile fiction
Stolen generations (Australia)
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Juvenile fiction
Aboriginal Australians -- Removal -- Juvenile fiction
Families, Aboriginal Australian -- Juvenile fiction
Stolen generations (Australia) -- Juvenile fiction
Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Juvenile fiction
Series My Australian story
Call number 2018.535
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10004465 2018.535
General Collection   . Available to Museum Staff .  
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