My Australian Story: Snowy: The Diary of Eva Fischer, Cabramura, 1958-1959 by Siobhan McHugh

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Sunning to top foredge. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker.

Eva Fischer has moved to Cabramurra, the highest town in Australia. Eva feels on top of the world, too. Surrounded by people of every nationality, Eva makes new friends and tries strange foreign food, like pizza. Eva learns to ski and ride, and even learns that being half German isn't so bad after all.

But all around her, momentous things are happening. The Snowy Mountains Scheme is underway. Huge dams have been built, tunnels constructed, homes abandoned, and people lost.

Young adult fiction.