Ten Cents a Pound

Ten Cents a Pound

Author: Nhung N. Tran-Davies

Publisher:

Published: 2018-04-10

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781772600568

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A young girl is torn by her desire to stay home with her family and the familiarity of their village, and her desire to go to school and discover the world beyond the mountains that surround them. Every time the girl insists that she will stay, her mother repeats that she must go--that there is more to life than labor in the coffee fields. Their loving exchange reveals the struggles and sacrifices that they will both have to make for the sake of the young girl's future. The sweet, simple text captures a mother's love and her wish for a life of opportunity for her daughter.


Ten Pound Poms

Ten Pound Poms

Author: A. James Hammerton

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2005-08-06

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9780719071331

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The authors draw upon a rich life history archive of letters, diaries, personal photographs and oral history interviews with former migrants, including those who settled in Australia and those who returned to Britain. They offer original interpretations of key historical themes, including motivations for emigration; gender relations and the family dynamics of migration; the 'very familiar and awfully strange' confrontation with the new world; the anguish of homesickness and return; and the personal and national identities of both settlers and returnees, fifty years on. --book cover.


The Nine Pound Hammer

The Nine Pound Hammer

Author: John Claude Bemis

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0375855645

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Drawn by the lodestone his father gave him years before, twelve-year-old orphan Ray travels south, meeting along the way various characters from folklore who are battling against an evil industry baron known as the Gog.


The Doll

The Doll

Author: Nhung N. Tran-Davies

Publisher: Second Story Press

Published: 2021-05-18

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 1772602299

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A young girl and her family arrive in an airport in a new country. They are refugees, migrants who have travelled across the world to find safety. Strangers greet them, and one of them gives the little girl a doll. Decades later, that little girl is grown up and she has the chance to welcome a group of refugees who are newly arrived in her adopted country. To the youngest of them, a little girl, she gives a doll, knowing it will help make her feel welcome. Inspired by real events.