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Rabbit-proof Fence
Doris Pilkington Garimara
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Description for Rabbit-proof Fence
Paperback. Word count 10,600 Series: Oxford Bookworms ELT. Num Pages: 80 pages, half tones. BIC Classification: 2AB; ELH. Category: (L) ELT / TEFL. Dimension: 199 x 127 x 6. Weight in Grams: 94.
Growing up in Australia in the 1920s and 30s, fourteen-year-old Molly and her cousins Daisy and Gracie had Aboriginal mothers and white fathers. In 1931, Molly and her cousins and were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good 'white' Australians. They were told to forget their mothers, their language, their home. But Molly would not forget. She and her cousins escaped and walked back to Jigalong, 1,600 kilometres away, following the rabbit-proof fence as their guide across the desert. This is the true story of that walk, told by Molly's daughter, Doris. ... Read more
Growing up in Australia in the 1920s and 30s, fourteen-year-old Molly and her cousins Daisy and Gracie had Aboriginal mothers and white fathers. In 1931, Molly and her cousins and were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good 'white' Australians. They were told to forget their mothers, their language, their home. But Molly would not forget. She and her cousins escaped and walked back to Jigalong, 1,600 kilometres away, following the rabbit-proof fence as their guide across the desert. This is the true story of that walk, told by Molly's daughter, Doris. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
Oxford Bookworms ELT
Condition
New
Weight
94g
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780194791441
SKU
V9780194791441
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-50
About Doris Pilkington Garimara
Jennifer Bassett has been a teacher, teacher trainer, editor, and materials writer, and has taught in England, Greece, Spain, and Portugal. She is the Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Library, and has written more than twenty original and retold stories for the series, including The Phantom of the Opera, One-Way Ticket, The President's Murderer, and William Shakespeare. Two of her adaptations, Rabbit-Proof Fence and Love Among ... Read more
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