Convict Girl
Author: Christine Edwards / Chrissie Michaels
Book 34 in the My Australian Story series
Pages: 162
Published: 2014
Age: 9+
Mary Beckith, convicted for theft, is transported for life to the colony of New South Wales. She is determined to take charge of her own destiny by whatever means she can. But she does not reckon on the most powerful people in the colony making decisions that will alter her live forever. Her fate is to be linked to two extraordinary explorers – Nicholas Baudin and Matthew Flinders – and their marvellous Voyages of Discovery.
About the My Australian Story Series
Books in series order
- 1.A Banner Bold(2000)
- 2.Secrets and Sisterhood (A Tale of Two Families)(2000)
- 3.Plagues and Federation(2000)
- 4.Surviving Sydney Cove(2000)
- 5.The Deadly Flu (A Different Sort of Real)(2001)
- 6.The Rum Rebellion(2001)
- 7.The Yankee Whaler(2001)
- 8.Who Am I?(2001)
- 9.Voyage to Botany Bay (On Board the Boussole)(2002)
- 10.The Bombing of Darwin(2002)
- 11.Fords and Flying Machines(2003)
- 12.Snowy(2003)
- 13.Riding with Thunderbolt(2004)
- 14.Our Don Bradman(2004)
- 15.A Marathon of Her Own(2004)
- 16.Our Enemy, My Friend(2005)
- 17.New Gold Mountain(2005)
- 18.Outback(2005)
- 19.Cyclone Tracy(2006)
- 20.Refugee(2006)
- 21.The Melting Pot(2007)
- 22.Archer's Melbourne Cup(2007)
- 23.Snatched by Pirates (Claw of the Dragon)(2008)
- 24.Atomic Testing(2009)
- 25.The Hunt for Ned Kelly(2010)
- 26.The Phar Lap Mystery(2010)
- 27.My Father's War(2011)
- 28.Sydney Harbour Bridge(2012)
- 29.Heroes of Tobruk(2012)
- 30.Escape from Cockatoo Island(2013)
- 31.Gallipoli(2013)
- 32.Fremantle Prison Break(2013)
- 33.Kokoda(2014)
- 34.Convict Girl(2014)
Reading age: 9+ years
My Australian Story is a series of historical novels written by various authors. Each book is written in the form of a fictional diary of a young person living during an important event or significant time period in Australian history.