Lindop, Christine.

Ned Kelly : a true story / Christine Lindop. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2008. - 56 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm. - Oxford bookworms library. True stories. Stage 1 . - Oxford bookworms library. Stage 1. True stories. .

When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and still hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live - outside the law. Australia in the 1870s was a hard, wild place. Rich people had land, poor people didn't. So the rich got richer, and the poor stayed poor. Some say Ned Kelly was a bad man. Some say he was a good man but the law was bad. This is the true story of Australia's most famous outlaw.

9780194789127 0194789128

51924 TVG

2009293970


Kelly, Ned, 1855-1880 --Juvenile literature.


Outlaws--Australia--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Readers.

PE1126.L563 / N43 2008

428.6