Our Australian Girl: Rose's Challenge (Book 3)

Sherryl Clark

Penguin Group Australia, Jun 27, 2011 - Juvenile Fiction - 105 pages

It's 1900 . . .
and Rose's world is changing.  At last she can go to a proper school where she makes a best friend, learns more than just embroidery and even gets to play in a proper cricket match.  But at home, Mother is dangerously ill, Father is worried about Federation, and Aunt Alice is getting in more trouble than ever . . .

Join Rose again on her adventure in the third of four exciting stories about a Federation girl who's determined to do things her way!

About the author

Sherryl Clark's first children's book was The Too-Tight Tutu which was published in the Aussie Bites series in 1997. Since then she has published almost 30 children's books, including Sixth Grade Style Queen (Not!) and Motormouth. Sherryl is also the author of the Rose books in the Our Australian Girl series. She has had two collections of poetry for adults published by Pariah Press - Edge (1990) and Thicker Than Water (1999), and is a co-editor of Poetrix magazine. Sherryl teaches fiction and poetry writing in the Diploma of Arts - Professional Writing and Editing at Victoria University and Holmesglen TAFE. Lucia Masciullo grew up in Livorno, Tuscany, among smells of saltiness and rosemary. She always loved painting and after graduating in Biology she decided to pursue her dream career as an artist. In 2006 she moved to Brisbane and since then has been happily working as a fine art painter and freelance illustrator. She has recently illustrated Sonya Hartnett's The Boy and Toy.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Our Australian Girl: Rose's Challenge (Book 3); Our Australian girl, Sherryl Clark
• Author: Sherryl Clark
• Illustrated by: Lucia Masciullo
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Penguin Group Australia, 2011
• ISBN: 0143305387, 9780143305385
• Length: 105 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Family / General; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / General; Juvenile Fiction / School & Education