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Our Australian Girl: Meet Marly (Book 1)
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy stories about diverse cultural backgrounds and historical settings. You'll follow a young girl's journey in 1980s Australia, exploring themes of belonging, family, and friendship. It's perfect for readers who appreciate strong, relatable characters and engaging narratives that reflect real-world experiences.
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It's 1983, and Marly is just trying to fit in at Sunshine Primary School. But being a refugee from Vietnam doesn't make things easy. When Marly's cousins come to stay and end up at the same school, her friends make fun of them.
How can Marly stay loyal to her cousins and keep her school friends as well? Meet Marly and join in her adventure in the first of four exciting stories about a daring girl torn between two worlds.
Our Australian Girl: Meet Marly (Book 1) is an engaging start to a series of stories about identity, friendship, and courage.
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Our Australian Girl: Meet Marly (Book 1) by Alice Pung has been praised for its engaging storytelling and its ability to depict the cultural diversity of Australia through the eyes of a young Vietnamese-Australian girl. Reviewers appreciate the book's relatable character and how it captures the complexities of being a young immigrant, making it a valuable read for children to understand different cultural perspectives. The narrative is lauded for being both insightful and entertaining, making readers keen to follow Marly's adventures.
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ISBN: 9780143308492
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 January 2015
Country: Australia
Imprint: Puffin
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 11.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 140g
Pages: 144
About the Author
Alice Pung is a writer, editor, teacher and lawyer based in Melbourne. Born a month after her Chinese parents fled from Cambodia to Australia as asylum seekers from Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge Regime, Alice has used her shared family's experiences to write stories that captivate all readers. She has won numerous awards including the 2007 Newcomer of the Year Award in the Australia Book Industry Awards for her first book Unpolished Gem. Her next book Her Father's Daughter won the Western Australia Premier's Book Award for Non Fiction, and it was also shortlisted for the Premier's Literary Awards in Victoria and New South Wales, and nominated also in the Queensland Literary Awards. Laurinda, Alice's first novel, was published in 2014 and was one of Readings' Top 100 bestselling books for the year. She is writing four books around the character Marly for Penguin's Our Australian Girl series. Alice's writing has appeared in many notable publications including the Monthly, the Age, Meanjin, Best Australian Stories and Best Australian Essays. Alice edited Growing Up Asian in Australia, a collection of personal accounts, essays, short stories and poetry which is currently a set text for the VCE English context on Identity and Belonging. Alice lives with her husband at Janet Clarke Hall
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