Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers. Protective plastic contact covering. Stickers on inside pages. Pages are sunned.
It is 1879, and life in the Biloela Industrial School is tough for eleven-year-old orphan Olivia Markham. Her windswept days are filled with sewing, washing, aimless roaming, avoiding the girls from the reformatory school and hoping to be apprenticed by the colony.
Sydney is rapidly growing, but Olivia can only imagine what life is like beyond Cockatoo Island. She dreams of freedom, friendship and family. Can she ever escape? (back cover)