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  Sherryl Clark, author of the Rose books, is a prolific and popular writer for children. Sherryl’s most recent Puffin book is Motormouth,a companion volume to Sixth Grade Style Queen (Not!), which was an Honour Book in the 2008 CBC Book of the Year Award, Younger Readers.

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  OUR AUSTRALIAN GIRL

  Song

  We are all Australian girls, each one unique

  Reaching out across centuries, far lands and seas

  And even though I might seem different from you

  If you take my hand let’s share history too.

  Each of our girls has a story to tell

  An adventure, a journey, a growing as well

  Each one of them shares part of our history

  Each one an Australian girl like you and me.

  If you’d like to hear the OAG song, you’ll find it on our website. Go to ouraustraliangirl.com.au

  OUR AUSTRALIAN GIRL

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  Want to find out more?

  For all the latest news, behind-the-scenes

  information and to enter competitions,

  visit our website. We’d love to hear from you!

  Follow the story of your favourite Australian girls and you will see that there is a special charm on the cover of each book that tells you something about the story.

  Here they all are. You can tick them off as you read each one.

  A girl like me in a time gone by

  PUFFIN BOOKS

  Published by the Penguin Group

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  Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England

  Published by Penguin Group (Australia), 2011

  Text copyright © Gabrielle Wang, 2011

  Illustrations copyright © Lucia Masciullo, 2011

  The moral right of the author and illustrator has been asserted.

  All rights reserved.

  Every effort has been made to contact the copyright holders for material used in this book. If anyone has information on relevant copyright holders, please contact us.

  Image of Weston, the Wizard Oil Prince reproduced with kind permission from The State Library of Victoria

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  ISBN: 978-1-74253-411-4