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Seven Little Australians

Read by Ophelia Darcy

Ethel Turner

This is the story of seven incorrigible children living near Sydney in the 1880’s with their military-man father, and a stepmother who is sc…

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In Our Mutual Friend

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Charles Dickens

Dickens' last complete novel was published serially 1864-5. It begins with an intriguing fortune offered to John Harmon by his late father, …

The Love Story of the Awkward Man

In The Golden Road

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L.M. Montgomery and Lucy Maud Montgomery

In the sequel to The Story Girl, Sara Stanley returns to join the King children in publishing their own local magazine to entertain the town…

Chapter 02

In Dot and the Kangaroo

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Ethel C. Pedley

Dot and the Kangaroo, written in 1899, is a children's book by Ethel C. Pedley about a little girl named Dot who gets lost in the Australian…

Chapter 5 – Turning a New Leaf

In Villette

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Charlotte Brontë

After a tragedy in her family, Lucy Snow leaves her home to become a teacher at a French boarding school. Lucy soon begins to fight against …