Leatherwood Books - Period

Period - 19th C

Battle Fleet
Author: Paul Dowswell
Pages: 291

One boy's experience of life on the waves, and the terrifying Battle of Trafalgar. Age 10-14.

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Daughter of the Regiment
Author: Jackie French
Pages: 144

A story about a boy who discovers a hole in time in the chook house. Through it he sees a girl who lives with her parents and the soldiers 150 years ago. When her parents die, she becomes the Daughter of the Regiment... This is based on a true story, of an orphaned child in the 1820s.

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Little House Series #1: Little House in the Big Woods
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Pages: 137

Little Laura lives with Ma and Pa, Mary and Baby Carrie in the woods of Wisconsin. Pa has built them a snug log cabin, and farms and hunts and trades furs for a living. He can do almost anything, from making his own bullets to playing a lullaby on his fiddle. Ma can do everything else, from baking bread to sewing clothes to making cheese. This is the story of a year on the farm, from Laura’s point of view. Age 7+

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Little House Series #2: Little House on the Prairie
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Pages: 352

Laura and her family are on the move. They have sold their little house, and are travelling through the wide prairies in their covered wagon. The adventurous Laura loves living under the stars. Age 5-9

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Little House Series #3: On the Banks of Plum Creek
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Pages: 220

Laura’s pioneering family have crossed three states in their covered wagon, and are now installed in a dugout house on the banks of Plum Creek, down below the prairie. Age 5-9

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My Australian Story - A Banner Bold: The Diary of Rosa Aarons, Ballarat Goldfield, 1854
Author: Nadia Wheatley
Pages: 186

Rosa Aarons has travelled with her family from London to the Ballarat goldfields, where her father has succumbed to gold fever. Age 12+