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Black Sunday: My Australian Story

✍ Scribed by Evan McHugh

Book ID: 115213849
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
Year: 2016
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 120 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781925064575

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✦ Synopsis

Davey only wants to be one thing: a lifesaver. In his world, they're larger-than-life, walking, talking heroes. He's too young, but he starts to train in secret, challenging himself in the Bondi surf. But his secret comes to light one hot Sunday in 1938–a day that was to become infamous.This story is set against the colourful world and characters of Bondi, after the Depression and just before the start of World War II, as ominous signs emerge from Europe and Jewish refugees arrive in Bondi.

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