Michael Mardel
Australian short stories for boys
eBook
(Michael P Mardel Sept. 18, 2018)
10 short stories of 10 middle grade boys having an adventure. Some stories are historical, some are set in Australia.There’s a mermaid romance in Girl in a Red Dress, a golden son from the Goldfields, a ball boy in Game, Set, Match, horse training in the Brumby, refugee children in a Long Way to Freedom, high seas and Lord Nelson in All at Sea, and a traveling man in Flames and Wells and Sacred sites in Ireland. There’s a boy wanting to catch rabbits so he may buy a scout uniform. There’s a dog which tells us of his travels up the east coast of Australia. And then there’s the boy whose father disappears in The White Shirt.