Who am I? : the diary of Mary Talence Anita Heiss.
Series: My Australian storyPublication details: Gosford, N.S.W. : Scholastic Australia, 2006.Description: 199 p. ;20 cmISBN:- 1865048585
- Diary of Mary Talence
- A823.3
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Junior collection | HEI | Available | 027717 |
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YA. Mary's story, presented via her diary entries, begins at Bombaderry home for Aboriginal children. Mary has been living here since she was five, but remembers another home with her Mum and Dad and lots of brothers and sisters. Mary likes her family at Bombaderry, including her best friend Marj, and the babies she looks after, but she still misses her Mum and wonders why she doesn't come to visit. Mary's life changes again soon after the diary begins, when she is fostered by a white family. The diary follows her struggle to assimilate into the white society she finds herself living in.