My Brilliant Career

My Brilliant CareerBy: Miles Franklin The fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary My Brilliant Career when she was only sixteen, intending it to be the Australian answer to Jane Eyre. But the book she produced a thinly veiled autobiographical novel about a young girl hungering for life and love in the outback so scandalized

offering a new perspective on such issues as the ethno-religious bloodletting and forced population transfers which attended the breakup of empire

or a kid's bedroom

' - The Independent

Their first stop: The Wizarding Hopscotch Championships

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From the rich floodplains of the Nile delta to the towering magnificence of the pyramids and the sphynx

the books are all picked up and sorted out

The Dictionary is made interactive by frequent questions whose answers relate to words found on the same page

and everything they WANT to find out about dinosaurs

Events and issues of special significance are discussed in greater detail in side bars of 3 different kinds

guaranteed to get little ones smiling as they practise their counting

or perhaps something worse