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A waltz for Matilda / Jackie French.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
YF FREN	Youth		Panania .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780732290214 (paperback)
Name	French, Jackie author.
Title	A waltz for Matilda / Jackie French.
Published	Pymble, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2010.
Published	©2010
Description	479 pages ; 20 cm.
Summary	Set against drought, flood, bushfire, war and jubilation, this is a story rooted in the words of our most famous national song. It is a love-song to a land and to a nation, told from the points of view of those who had no vote in 1901: the women, the Indigenous people, the Chinese market-gardeners, the Afghan traders.
Target audience note	12-15 years old.
Reading Program Note	Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9
Subjects	Swagmen -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction
	Young adult fiction
	Australian fiction
	Australia -- Social conditions -- 1901-1945 -- Juvenile fiction
Series	Matilda saga 01.
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Australia -- Social conditions -- 1901-1945 -- Juvenile fiction . Australian fiction . Swagmen -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction . Young adult fiction . See Also: Australian literature . Children's stories, Australian . Science fiction, Australian . Short stories, Australian . Authors: French, Jackie . Series: Matilda saga .