Rabbit-proof fence / Doris Pilkington Garimara: retold by Jennifer Bassett.
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TextSeries: Oxford bookworms libraryStage 3True stories: Publisher: Oxford. : Oxford University Press, 2008Description: 72 p. : ill.,map, facsims. ; 20 cmISBN: 0194791440; 9780194791441Subject(s): Pilkington, Doris, 1937-2014 -- Family | Readers | Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile literature | Stolen generations (Australia) | Moore River Region (W.A.) -- Juvenile literature | Jigalong Region (W.A.) -- Juvenile literatureDDC classification: 920.094 LOC classification: PE1126.B377 | R333 2008Summary: Fourteen-year-old Molly and her cousins Daisy and Gracie were mixed race Aborigines. In 1931 they were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good 'white' Australians, They were told to forget their mothers, their language, their home. But Molly would not forget. She and her cousins escaped and walked back to Jigalong, 1600 kilometres away, following the rabbit-proof fence north across Western Australia to their desert home.
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Author's Aboriginal name is Nugi Garimara.
Fourteen-year-old Molly and her cousins Daisy and Gracie were mixed race Aborigines. In 1931 they were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good 'white' Australians, They were told to forget their mothers, their language, their home. But Molly would not forget. She and her cousins escaped and walked back to Jigalong, 1600 kilometres away, following the rabbit-proof fence north across Western Australia to their desert home.
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