Our race for reconciliation / Anita Heiss
- Bib ID:
- 7338375
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Heiss, Anita, 1968-, author
- Description:
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- Gosford, NSW : Omnibus Books, an imprint of Scholastic Australia Pty Ltd, 2017
- ©2017
- 202 pages ; 20 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781760276119 (paperback)
- Series:
- My Australian story.
- Summary:
-
Mel Gordon loves running, and watching Seinfeld, but mostly she loves Cathy Freeman. It's 2000 and the Olympics are going to be held in Australia. In a year of surprises, Mel finds out that Cathy Freeman is coming to talk to her school. And her family is heading to Sydney! It becomes an unforgettable journey to Corroboree 2000, bringing together all Australians as they march and sing and celebrate Australia's Indigenous heritage and also acknowledge past wrongs.
- Notes:
- For secondary school age.
- Subject:
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- Freeman, Cathy, 1973-
- Olympic athletes -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction
- Indigenous peoples -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction
- Reconciliation -- Juvenile fiction
- Olympics -- Juvenile fiction
- Race relations - Reconciliation
- Politics and Government - National symbols and events - Olympic Games, Sydney, 2000
- Sport - Athletics and running
- Politics and Government - National symbols and events - NAIDOC / NADOC / National Aborigines Week
- Sport - Football
- Sport - Olympic Games
- Literature and stories - Juvenile
- Literature and stories - Fiction
- Ipswich (SE Qld SG56-14)
- Corroboree Grounds (SW Qld SG54-15)
- Australian
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2017
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