Books with author Sally Moret

A young Aboriginal girl is taken from the north of Australia and sent to an institution in the distant south. There, she slowly makes a new life for herself and, in the face of tragedy, finds strength in new friendships. Poignantly told from the child’s perspective, Sister Heart affirms the power of family and kinship. This compelling novel about the stolen generations helps teachers sensitively introduce into the classroom one of world’s most confronting histories.

Sally Morgan’s My Place is an Australian classic. Since first publication in 1987, My Place has sold more than half a million copies in Australia, been translated and read all over the world, and been reprinted dozens of times. Sally’s rich, zesty and moving work is perhaps the best-loved biography of Aboriginal Australia ever written. My Place for Young Readers is an abridged edition, especially adapted for younger readers, that retains all the charm and power of the original. It is published as three separate books. Sally’s Story focuses on Sally’s childhood, and her growing realisation of the truth her family has been hiding.

Ola doesn’t believe in faeries, the power of crystals or that it’s possible to talk to the dead. She believes in science, maths and logic - none of which make any sense to Blossom, her borderline-Buddhist, psychic detective mother. Is there nothing in the world they see the same way? And why won’t Blossom tell her anything about her dad? Ola’s never even met him. She only knows his name is John.Driven by the desperate need to know the origins of her logical mind, Ola devises a daring plan of faked identity and cyber-subterfuge to find her dad. But her quest doesn’t bring the swift answers she craves. Instead, she stumbles deeper and deeper into Blossom's beguiling, cryptic world and learns secrets about her mother she never wanted to know. Worse still, she starts to fear that logic and science might not be as dependable as she’s always thought.