This children's classic, first published in 1898, tells the story of John Trenchard, a fifteen year old orphan, who lives with his sp...

This weekly meme is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey I had an enjoyable and productive reading week with four novels gone from my r...

I've not read any of John Marsden's young adult fiction so didn't know what to expect from his first novel for adults. What gr...

  This weekly meme is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey Sadly, I'm still struggling with Helen Dunmore's book, A Spell of Winter...

This is a very sad and thought provoking tale written from the perspective of Mary, a fifteen year old farm girl, lame and hair the colour o...

  This weekly meme is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey With the weather being so cold and wet in my corner of Australia over the past we...

Jessie Marley learns she is adopted and leaves Australia to seek out her birth mother in England. In London, distracted by what she has disc...

  This weekly meme is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey I'd made good progress with the three novels I was reading last week, even fin...

I recently submitted my blog to the Australian Book Blogger Directory . This morning I was making my way down the list of blogs in the His...

This weekly meme is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey Last week I finished The Sparks Fly Upward, thus completing Diana Norman's ...