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  <title><![CDATA[Rabbit-Proof Fence: A True Story]]></title>
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  <default_description>Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up and taken to settlements to be institutionally assimilated. In &lt;i&gt;Rabbit-Proof Fence&lt;/i&gt;, award-wining author Doris Pilkington traces the story of her mother, Molly, one of three young girls uprooted from their community in Southwestern Australia and taken to the Moore River Native Settlement. There, Molly and her relatives Gracie and Daisy were forbidden to speak their native language, forced to abandon their heritage, and taught to be culturally white. After regular stays in solitary confinement, the three girls planned and executed a daring escape from the grim camp.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1996</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of  All Time</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Doris Pilkington Garimara]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49578226">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6901800">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to really force myself to read non-fiction but this book was one of the best non fiction stories I have read. I became consumed by the picture I developed in my minds eye of these three aborigine girls and their incredible journey along the rabbit proof fence.  I was amazed at how the love be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64465389">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Julia Fusco<br/>4/8/09<br/>English book review#3<br/>A Rabbit and a Review of Rabbit Proof Fence<br/>	<br/><br/>	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. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50180350">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 03 13:40:16 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58226998">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 thei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71859766">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55452340">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78649937">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw the movie based on this book when it came out in 2002 and really enjoyed it but the book turned out to be very-poorly written and a big disappointment. It starts out with a few very confusing and odd chapters about the history of the arrival of white men to Australia and then it moves on to th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51342340">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book tells the story of Molly Craig, a 14-year-old Aboriginal girl, who is deemed &quot;half-caste&quot; by the Australian government. Along with two members of her family, her 8-year-old sister Daisy Craig and their 10-year-old cousin Gracie Fields, Molly is taken by police officers from her mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13314071">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ironically, I was reading this book when the movie 'Australia' came to town.<br/><br/>This is a non fiction book, and it read like a non fiction book, and felt rather 'heavy' to read, as small as it was it took me longer then usual because of the Aboriginal language in it, if it wasn't for the glo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39769526">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a remarkable story of 3 young &quot;half-caste&quot; Aboriginal girls (part Aboriginal, part white) in the 1930s. The girls are taken away from their communities to be placed into a settlement school where they will be taught to be, in my opinion, indentured servants to the white settlers. T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46455250">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this on one flight up to Seattle, so a quick read (I'd also seen the movie based on the book a couple of years ago).  Quick but good read.  This story is about Australia, but we all know (I hope) that a very similar pattern of kidnapping indigenous children and forcing them to attend resident...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10198420">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24048435">
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    <body><![CDATA[For some reason, the white government in Australia decided that half-caste aboriginal children shouldn't be raised by their parents and would be better off living in camps in order to be trained as domestic servants. This is the story of Molly, Gracie and Daisy who escape from captivity and follow t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24048435">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this story.  It just once again proves that persistance prevails at all costs.  I can not imagine trailing the Rabbit Proof Fence and surviving like these three little girls did!!  Why do governments think they can tear children form their families.  Kids are too persistant to let them get b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43133763">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fascinating true story.  However, the escape part doesn't even start until page 75 of this 133 page book.  It was so short that it was hard to get a sense of the immense distance the three girls traveled.  I was just left wanting so much more out of this little book.  I'll definitely have ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63220932">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun May 17 11:09:37 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Three Aboriginal girls who are taken from their families during the time the Australian governmentremoved children, educating them to be servants for the rich whites. They escape and make there way back to their family by following the &quot;rabbit-proof fence&quot;. Non-fiction its heart-breaking ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56380840">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book got to bogged down in the first two chapters about the history of western Australia.  Once the actual storyline picks up in the 4th or 5th chapter, it is interesting.  Amazing sotry but not as well written as I had hoped.  Has made me want to see the movie though.]]></body>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[The excellent film by the same name]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is really the writing down of an oral history, recorded by the daughter of a mixed blood Aborigine girl who escaped, with two other girls, from a settlement where such children were forcibly taken to &quot;acculturate&quot; them.  It is an amazing survival story, rich with native words and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15558058">more...</a>]]></body>
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