Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time

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Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time

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The remarkable true story of three young girls who cross the harsh Australian desert on foot to return to their home.

Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up by whites and taken to settlements to be assimilated. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, award-winning author Doris Pilkington traces the captiv

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Published November 20th 2002 by Miramax Books (first published 1996)

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Mar 21, 2009 Richard rated it 4 of 5 stars

A memoir about three Aboriginal girls who are taken out of their home in Northern Australia (during 1930s) and put in a ‘school’ to train them to become servants. This is all with government approval because the girls are part white and part native. The oldest girl is determined not to stay and to get back to her home. They run away from the school-prison and find the rabbit proof fence that runs the length of Australia and walk home, eating rabbits, beetles, what ever they could find. Pilkingto...more

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Oct 13, 2008 Shannon (Giraffe Days) rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: memoir, non-fiction

This is the sad yet beautiful, poignant true story of three Aboriginal girls who were taken from their families and tribe during the Australian government's policy of removing children, educating them to be servants and working towards a goal of assimilation by wiping out their genes – the entire race, eventually – through inter-racial marriage. They had found that within three generations of breeding with whites, the children are blond and blue-eyed. Today these children are known as the Stolen...more This is the sad yet beautiful, poignant true story of three Aboriginal girls who were taken from their families and tribe during the Australian government's policy of removing children, educating them to be servants and working towards a goal of assimilation by wiping out their genes – the entire race, eventually – through inter-racial marriage. They had found that within three generations of breeding with whites, the children are blond and blue-eyed. Today these children are known as the Stolen Generation.

Set in Western Australia in the 1930s, the story is about three cousins – Molly, 14; Daisy, 11; and Gracie, 8 – who are forcibly taken from their tribe and home at Jigalong in the north-west to the Moore River Native Settlement just north of Perth. In Western Australia are two rabbit-proof fences that run north-south, and east of Perth, to keep the rabbits out of the farmland (Europeans deliberately introduced rabbits to Australia, where they have been a plague ever since). It’s the longest fence of its kind in the world.

The settlement the three girls are taken to is one of many designed to eradicate their cultural heritage – they’re forbidden to speak their native tongue – and mould them into good servants. It’s a cruel and punitive place. They escape the school and, barefoot and without provisions, undertake to walk 1,600 kilometres home by following the rabbit-proof fence, which runs past Jigalong. White men and black trackers follow them and planes search for them from above while they hid and trekked through scrub, rock and salt plains. The girls made the historic journey only to be taken back to the settlement.

The first five chapters give background and historical context for the story, as well as an understanding of Aboriginal culture and their thoughts and feelings. There’s also an appendix of Aboriginal words used in the story.

It’s a harrowing survival story of historic proportions that was made into a wonderful movie with breath-taking cinematography. Either the book or the movie would be great to use. The connections between the way the Australian Aborigines and the Canadian First Nations people were treated through government policy and settlements/residential schools add context and perspective to the history of either country. The fact that it’s a true story and an historical story, as well as an extraordinary feat, makes it a powerful story.

Written by Molly's daughter Nugi Garimara, whose "white" name is Doris Pilkington, the movie is also a must-see - the breath-taking cinemetagraphy helps balance out the sadness, and the young actors are excellent. It's yet another painful chapter in Australia's history, but one that shouldn't be ignored.
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Apr 23, 2013 Miss Carman rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: family, non-fiction

A true story of three half aboriginal Australian girls who get taken by the Australian government far from their home in Jigalong to a "school"/settlement which is more like a prison than anything else, where girls are locked up at night inside the dormitories to prevent them from running away. Nobody has ever escaped before, and though there's punishment for trying to run away, these three girls try anyway. Trying to not get caught, they make a long trip across half of Western Australia, living...more

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Apr 18, 2013 Nihan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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İstilacı beyazların Aborijin kabilelerinin yaşadığı yerleri ele geçirmeye başlaması, beyazların
konuştuğu dilden anlamayan halkın, kendilerine sorulan,"Burada yaşayıp bölgenize yeni bir İngiliz
adı vermek istiyoruz. Buna müsaadeniz var mı? sorusuna çaresiz bir şekilde, düşman olarak algılanmamak için
kafa sallamalarıyla başlamış. Oysa neye izin verdiklerinden haberleri bile yokmuş.

Tabi daha sonra sürüler halinde gelen beyazların istilası ve kendi yaşadıkları alanları çitlerle çevirdiklerini
görünce...more İstilacı beyazların Aborijin kabilelerinin yaşadığı yerleri ele geçirmeye başlaması, beyazların
konuştuğu dilden anlamayan halkın, kendilerine sorulan,"Burada yaşayıp bölgenize yeni bir İngiliz
adı vermek istiyoruz. Buna müsaadeniz var mı? sorusuna çaresiz bir şekilde, düşman olarak algılanmamak için
kafa sallamalarıyla başlamış. Oysa neye izin verdiklerinden haberleri bile yokmuş.

Tabi daha sonra sürüler halinde gelen beyazların istilası ve kendi yaşadıkları alanları çitlerle çevirdiklerini
görünce ne kadar büyük bir hata yaptıklarını anlamışlar. Yapabilecekleri bir şey yokmuş çünkü beyazların ateşli
silahları varken onların sadece mızrakları varmış.

Böylece kendi topraklarında köle durumuna sokulmuşlar. İşgale gelen beyaz askerlerin bir süre sonra kadınsızlıktan
başı dönmüş olacak ki, aborijin kadınlarına saldırmışlar. Bazı kadınlar isteyerek girmiş tabi ilişkiye. Ve bunun sonucunda
melez bir ırk doğmuş. Yarı aborijin, yarı beyaz olan çocuklar diğerleri tarafından dışlanmaya başlamış.

Hükümet bu melezlerin, aborijinlere göre daha zeki(!) olduğuna karar vererek işçi sınıfında verimli olacaklarını düşünmüş.
Bir yasa çıkarılarak melez çocukların zorla ailelerinden alınıp uzaklara eğitime(!) götürülmesine karar vermişler. Binlerce çocuk,
doğru bir kelime varsa o da "çalınıp" olacaktır, yurt denilen ama aslında hapishaneden farksız olan yerlere götürülmüş. Çarşafsız, kılıfsız
yataklarda, buz gibi havada, tek bir battaniyeyle yatarlarmış. İşte bu hikayenin kahramanları da Molly, Daisy ve Grace adında üç melez
kız. Toplama kampından farksız olan yerden kaçışlarının öyküsü. Sonunda başarmışlar ve bu mucize gibi bir şeymiş bence çünkü
yolculukları 9 hafta sürmüş.

Öylesine farklı hayatlar var ki dünyada, insan okudukça benimki de dert mi diyor. Onların ki belirgin bir esaretmiş ve kaçmayı başarmışlar.
Oysa bizim esaretlerimiz özgürlük kılıfının içine sokulduğundan kaçışta mümkün olamıyor. Görünmez parmaklıklar içerisinde yaşamaya mahkum
gibiyiz. Ve çoğunuz bunun farkında bile değil. (less)

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Feb 26, 2013 Kim rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is based in a real story of the author's mother Molly and her two sisters who were half-casts of Aboriginal children in Australia. Like many Aboriginal children in Australia in the past, they were removed from their families by the government institution and were placed in settlements where they were taught to be domestic workers (for girls) or agricultural workers (for boys). The books gives a rare point of view of the aborigine, which is very different from reports made by the Austra...more

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Sep 21, 2011 Emily rated it 1 of 5 stars

At the risk of sounding like one of "those people," the movie was better. I saw it when it came out years ago and liked it enough to get excited when I found the book it was based on at my local library. It seemed to me that Doris Pilkington couldn't decide if she wanted to write a history of her mother's walk or if she wanted to write a fictionalized version of the true events that would allow her to, as she puts it, "call on [her] skills as writer" to fill in details probably forgotten by her...more

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Sep 10, 2011 Amy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Okay the whole history and premise of this book is very intriguing. It should get a 5 for that! I am usually one who doesn't like flowery, fluffy prose. I don't need pages and pages of detail to enjoy a story. This book is quick, to the point and almost too short. It is almost written as a direct translation of a related oral story. There is no embellishment. At times I found it a bit rushed. It took 3 girls 9 weeks to travel 1200 + miles alone. The girls were ages 8-14. Nine weeks! I've read no...more Okay the whole history and premise of this book is very intriguing. It should get a 5 for that! I am usually one who doesn't like flowery, fluffy prose. I don't need pages and pages of detail to enjoy a story. This book is quick, to the point and almost too short. It is almost written as a direct translation of a related oral story. There is no embellishment. At times I found it a bit rushed. It took 3 girls 9 weeks to travel 1200 + miles alone. The girls were ages 8-14. Nine weeks! I've read novels of 400+ pages that took place in a time frame way less than that. I do have to give the author some leniency because the stories were told so much later in life, after the girls were elderly women. So, if the author's intent was simply to document their story, she succeeded. But it would have been nice to read more about their adventure in detail. Even the history in the beginning was quite truncated. I just feel like the book/idea had so much more potential, so for that I give it a 4. But it was, in fact, a fascinating story. One of white-British ignorance and their fancy of making the Aborigines not only dependent on them, but then making them become like them. Is there anywhere, in the world, where white people haven't completely taken over and ingratiated themselves into native lands thinking they know better than the indigenous people who have lived there for eons? The amazing thing about this story is that it isn't of violent uprising or planned rebellion. It is about three little girls, stolen from their mothers and taken 1200+ miles away because some distant white man decided their life could be improved by HIS standards. It's about these three little girls longing for home and making the life-threatening, yet life-preserving decision to go home. It makes me weep to think of how attached they were and how loved they were. It is an inspiring story which exploits a very, very ugly time in Australian history. It is a quick ~125 pages to read. I would recommend it to anyone.(less)

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Aug 07, 2011 Ape rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: biographies-memoirs, australia-nz-and-south-pacific, history-fact-fiction

I saw the film quite a few years ago and have been curious about reading the book since. It's not the longest book in the world, but it does draw you in. And to start at the very beginning... well, it's not just about the girls' journey across western Australia, as there's a bit of a potted history about the European colonisation of Australia and how this affected the indigenous population and the way they were treated. Which just makes you mad. I'm actually also reading a book about Swedish mis...more

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Jul 06, 2011 Jennifer rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: nonfiction

The author is part aboriginal Australian, and her cultural frame greatly enhances the telling of this amazing true story of her mother's escape from what was little more than a concentration camp for mixed-race children. In 1931, seventeen-year-old Molly and her two younger cousins set out for "home." They could neither count, nor read, nor speak much English, and they truly had nothing more than the clothes on their backs. Using Molly's tracking skills, they walked for months, for hundreds of m...more

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May 20, 2012 ✿ Deni rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012-55-books

To walk one and a half thousand miles is no small feat. It's amazing that this is based on a true story and that these girls were so focused on getting back home, specially because they were so young... but those are the only good things I can say about this book.

I found it very boring to read, I was expecting an exciting tale of how the girls managed to get food, fought the cold and stayed together against the odds, something that must have been extremely scary; instead I found page after page...more

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Jun 26, 2011 Anne Toronto1 rated it 5 of 5 stars

***** (because true) "Rabbit-proof fence" by Doris Pilkington is the tiny (131 p) true story of her mother Molly's first trek, over 1000 miles and 2 months, from southern jail-like Moore back home to northern Australian outback station Jigaloo. Both the book and film inspire courage, and suit family audiences.
The book starts with the suprised Aboriginals at the first white-man landing. 1931 government policy took half-castes from homes to two large bare prison-like settlements, intended for pro...more ***** (because true) "Rabbit-proof fence" by Doris Pilkington is the tiny (131 p) true story of her mother Molly's first trek, over 1000 miles and 2 months, from southern jail-like Moore back home to northern Australian outback station Jigaloo. Both the book and film inspire courage, and suit family audiences.
The book starts with the suprised Aboriginals at the first white-man landing. 1931 government policy took half-castes from homes to two large bare prison-like settlements, intended for protection against distrimination by full-bloods, and education for livelihoods. Guided by bush sense, stars learned from a sailor on the captured trip, and the fence, the senior teen (16-18) leads Gracie, her younger sister (12?) and cousin Daisy (8?), begging and catching meals. Ages are approximate because births weren't recorded; David Noyce's film used 12,8,4.
When the trio are abducted, in traditional grief female relatives pound their own heads with sharp objects. In truth, that draws blood, and Molly's niece died from self-inflicted wounds. The fugitives were actually carried off on horseback, not trapped in an enclosed car, rare there and then, but the train was true.
When middle-child Grace tires and leaves them for Miluna, the film left me with the impression that she died on the way, but really she is now dead after a long and busy life, early marriages assigned at birth, multiple wives, and out-of-tribe/ white fathers being accepted.
The book gives a better sense of the lush variety of vast nature across the continent. For threat, the film subdued what I remember as the vivid eye-stabbing blue sky I never saw before in NA, and constant munificent noisy bejeweled bird flocks. Of course, city dwellers omit scenes where girls catch, gut, and gnaw fuzzy rabbits and baby chicks. Actors stagger starved at the last, instead of the real final feast welcome and camel ride from her aunt's relatives.
Native words are used sparingly, in context, and in a final glossary, so the sprinkle makes sense, does not intrude or distract. The narrative flows: official letter and telegram scraps and extracts enhance. The tone is calm and factual, neither dry and boring recitation, nor justifiably angry and resentful rant.
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Aug 18, 2012 Melanie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012

In the 1930's Western Australian had a policy that allowed the Government to remove "half-caste" Aboriginal children from their families, homes and culture to "educate them."

This is now known as the Stolen Generation.

White Settlers/Australians made the population believe they were doing the best for these children but in fact they were denied their culture, traditions, language and history as the Government tried to make them into "white people."

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Jun 03, 2012 Jon rated it 3 of 5 stars

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions and this book shows an example of it. In 1931, the Austrailian government passed an edict to forcibly remove all mixed race aboriginal children from their families and raise them in state run homes. It was felt that the children, by virtue of their white heritage, were smarter than full-blooded aborigines and it was in their best interest to be assimilated into white culture. They were forbidden to speak their language or practice their customs and...more

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Jun 27, 2011 Rachel rated it 5 of 5 stars

Wow!! This is accurate historical fiction novel based on a real-life event. It is the true story of three girls who escaped the Moore River Native Settlement in Australia and walked 1200 miles back to the Aboriginal home! Moore River was a place where half-caste girls and boys were taken as children to be "educated" in the ways of mainstream Australia and prepped to become domestic workers. Children were torn from their families and often did not return. The desire for freedom was so strong for...more

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Jul 21, 2009 Lucy rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Apr 12, 2009 4julia rated it 2 of 5 stars

Julia Fusco
4/8/09
English book review#3
A Rabbit and a Review of Rabbit Proof Fence

Rabbit Proof Fence is a true story about a great adventure and an escape. The real story is about three girls who are half-castes in Australia. They are sent to a boarding school. All three girls run away trying to get back to their home. But, the story itself was neither adventurous nor great. Rabbit Proof Fence was disappointing and uninspiring to the true adventure, which probably was so mesmerizing and scary. T...more Julia Fusco
4/8/09
English book review#3
A Rabbit and a Review of Rabbit Proof Fence

Rabbit Proof Fence is a true story about a great adventure and an escape. The real story is about three girls who are half-castes in Australia. They are sent to a boarding school. All three girls run away trying to get back to their home. But, the story itself was neither adventurous nor great. Rabbit Proof Fence was disappointing and uninspiring to the true adventure, which probably was so mesmerizing and scary. The book is boring. The book uses two languages and switches back and forth. Finally, the book did not give enough background information about the girls.
Most nonfiction books are exciting. Sometimes the reader cannot put down the book, but unfortunately not in this instance. There were no drastic events. If there were any injuries that happened to Daisy, Molly, Gracie the book didn’t mention any injuries. That’s what makes a book interesting. In my opinion it didn’t get to the interesting part until page 97.Every thing else is just play- by -plays. For example, “By noon on the day they parted, the temperature had risen and it was the hottest day since their abscondment. The military coat and jackets were discarded and Molly and Daisy decided to rise beside the creek bed. There wasn’t much water in it but there was enough to quench their thirst and to fill their Billy can, so that they would have a supply of drinking water until they came across a windmill or one of the wells along the canning stock route.” It was pretty much walk, eat, sleep, and repeat. Even the tracker following the girls didn’t chase them or capture tem to bring them back to the settlement just for them to escape again.
When a person speaks in a different language, the audience wants to know what the character is saying. What’s annoying about this book is it switches between Mardu language and English. In the back of the book there is a glossary. But flipping back and forth to see what a word means can be frustrating. What is worse is there aren’t many words in the glossary. Using two languages and being inconsistent now that’s really annoying. One time the word will be in English the next time the word is in Mardu. For example, the book says they eat “goanna” for dinner. Next time the book will say they ate Murrandu. Just choose a language and stay consistent. What was even worse was having a word in the book in Mardu and it would not be in the glossary.
I want to connect with a character that way I sympathize with them even more then if I don’t connect with the character. How do you connect with an individual if you don’t learn about their personality and what they are like what, and what their background is? In this book we only learn a little about one character, Daisy. We find out that daisy is stubborn from what she does in the book. It’s hard to connect to someone who is stubborn. The story is vague about the girls themselves. There are only six paragraphs on what happened to the girls after the book ended. I wanted to know more about what happened later in the girl’s life.
So, in conclusion, these are three reasons that I didn’t like the book. I feel it is necessary to connect to the characters .One way to connect to the characters is by living the experience through the characters; this book did not do that because there was nothing major that happened to these girls that I could live through them. Finally, I need to only have one language throughout the book.
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May 07, 2013 Judy rated it 3 of 5 stars

After seeing the movie, I read the book, wondering how the movie compared to the real life story of three young Australian aboriginal girls' month-long journey on foot, fleeing from being held captive at the Moore River Native Settlement and finding their way home to their mothers. The story was written by the daughter of Molly, the oldest girl. I had never heard of the rabbit-proof fences built in Western Australia in the early 1900s, which was a feat in itself. It served as a guidepost as the...more

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Jan 21, 2013 Paola Mendoza rated it 4 of 5 stars

Recommended to Paola by: Claire Taylor

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Literary genre: This bock is based on a true story mixed with adventure and drama.

Book's theme: "To all of my mother's and aunty's children and their descendants for inspiration, encouragement and determination".

In which pages is expressed the main idea of the book?: In my opinion the main idea is expressed en Pag. 76 , first paragraph "Molly had decided the night before that chi and her two sisters were not staying here. She had no desire to live in this strange place( the settlement) amongst p...more

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Jul 13, 2010 Heidi rated it 3 of 5 stars

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All in all, I think this book is a story that needed telling - for historical purposes/ethical reasoning’s. The author is in fact the daughter of one of the characters. Doris Pilkington shares facts and evidence of this event throughout the book and it just brings to light how much modes of thinking have changed (as well as how much they have not) in the past 80 years.

But... it's not so much of a story as a recounting. I mean, yes, it's bad enough to be kidnapped at age 12 and legally "incarcera...more

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Jun 03, 2009 Osho rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2009

Best read in conjunction with the film, this memoir fills in details of the girls' trek that are not as explicit in the screen version. What the film provides is both a dynamism lacking in the book, and a broader context for why the Australian government would separate biracial children from their families. I was particularly fascinated by the expenditures made to recover three girls; no comparable manhunt would be mounted in our era for non-criminal escapees.

It would be interesting to compare t...more

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Aug 18, 2007 Shari rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites, memoirs

Europeans have conquered yet another country and tried to anglo-tize the children. Two girls escape and walk 1,000 miles to get home. This is a story of strength, courage, and determination.

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Sep 20, 2009 Lilyan Deangelis rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a very interesting little book. It gives a brief history of the European settlement of Australia and some of the effects it had on the aboriginal people. We are also introduced to some of the aboriginal customs and beliefs. And, it is a story of three children ages eight to fourteen and their journey over one thousand miles through the Australian outback/desert to re-unit with their families....all packed within a 136 pages. The author, Doris Pilkington, is the daughter of the oldest gir...more

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May 08, 2009 Rikelle rated it 3 of 5 stars

The book relates the true story of three aboriginal girls who were torn from their families by the Australian Government. The girls were forced to live in a boarding school where they would be trained to be domestic servants. The book details their courageous ordeal to escape and travel through the Australian bush to return to their families. While this is a very powerful story I found the way in the which the story was written to be very confusing and not as impactful as it could be. Not being...more

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Mar 03, 2011 Julie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: australian, non-fiction, historical

Doris Pilkington tells the story of her mother and aunties incredible journey through the outback of Western Australia in 1931. The three girls were forcibly removed from their families by government officials solely for being 'half-castes' and were placed on a Native Settlement so they could be taught the ways of the Europeans. Molly (Doris' mum) and her sisters run away from the settlement and walk over 1660 kilometres back to their home at Jigalong all the while being chased by policemen and...more

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Nov 28, 2009 Rlmteacher marcus rated it 4 of 5 stars

I thought this story was intriguing and clearly described the challenges faced by aborigines in Australia. It seems to parallel the problems that occurred in America when the Native Americans were invaded by the Europeans. It is truly amazing that most cultures tend to think they are so righteous that they should be emulated and if not, the issue will be forced by schooling children to ensure they become like the dominate race. Sadly, but true this is similar to the mindset of Hitler and the Naz...more

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Nov 27, 2010 A.J. Llewellyn rated it 5 of 5 stars

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This is a devastating book. It's hard to imagine this really happened in my home country, but it did. The story of three displaced sisters and their determindation to return home is a story that inspired and yet haunted me even as I read it.
My brother sent me a copy of a documentary called "Lousy Little Sixpense" about the secret history of Aboriginal slavery in Australia in the 1950s - as well as a copy of this book. I am now profoundly depressed but thankful these stories have been told.
I hav...more

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Jun 20, 2012 Lauren rated it 3 of 5 stars

Used this book as requested as part of refugee week although it is about displaced people (Aborigines). The book can be quite hard to understand at some points as the author has included words from the tribe's language. However there is a glossary at the back which can be used by the children. There are lots of good examples of descriptive and figurative language.

All the children in the class really engaged and understood the themes of this story. Some children were even quite shocked to find o...more

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Apr 07, 2012 Pam rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: biography

I loved this book. These girls who escaped from the Moore River Native Settlement (prison) and traveled barefoot to reach their homes were remarkable. I was not aware of the edict of 1931 to remove black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages (white fathers)from their homes and transport them to settlements miles away to be assimilated. The author's mother was one of the children taken, along with two of her young relatives. They were forbidden to speak their own language at the set...more

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Jul 02, 2010 Goldenwattle rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was not a thick book and didn't take long to read. Without the initial history (before the actual story begins) it would have been even thinner. It was this initial history that I found boring, but I ploughed through it and once the actual story began I found it a good read. I thought the story was balanced. I expected it to be hard on the non-aboriginals, but I found it took a balanced approach. In fact, sometimes I was not sure what race people were, which really was how it should be. It...more

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May 01, 2011 Grace added it

I thought that this book was definitely provoking and encouraged me to ponder racial questions, which was an upside of this book. A downside though is the level that this book is written for. I think that having the book written for younger kids is hard because it encouraged me to zone out since it was so easy to read, then I would realize that I read fifty pages in twenty minutes and couldn't really tell you what happened. I also though this book was one demential as it is only the three girls...more

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