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Author Murray, Kirsty.

Title Bridie's fire / Kirsty Murray
Published Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2003

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 MELB CRC  JUNIOR FICTION Mur/Bfi  AVAILABLE
Description 254 pages ; 20 cm
regular print
Series Children of the wind ; bk. 1
Murray, Kirsty. Children of the wind ; bk. 1
Summary Bridies̀‰ world is torn apart when her parents and baby brother die in the Great Hunger. She leaves Ireland, and strikes out alone to claim a life for herself in Australia, on the other side of the ocean. At the age of eleven she is given work as a scullery maid for a wealthy Melbourne family. But being a scullery maid is not part of Bridie's dream for a better life. Together with the younger son of the house, Gilbert, she sets out for the goldfields, looking for fortune and happiness
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Audience Bridie's world is torn apart when her parents and baby brother die in the Great Hunger. She leaves Ireland, and strikes out alone to claim a life for herself in Australia, on the other side of the ocean. At the age of eleven she is given work as a scullery maid for a wealthy Melbourne family. But being a scullery maid is not part of Bridie's dream for a better life. Together with the younger son of the house, Gilbert, she sets out for the goldfields, looking for fortune and happiness
Subject Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- Victoria -- Ballarat -- Juvenile fiction
Famines -- Ireland -- Juvenile fiction.
Orphans -- Juvenile fiction.
Irish -- Australia -- Juvenile literature.
Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- Victoria -- Ballarat -- Juvenile literature
Young adult fiction.
Irish -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction.
Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
Children's literature, Australian.
Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95010073 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Australia -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591 -- 1778-1900 -- Juvenile fiction
Genre/Form Australian fiction
Young adult fiction
Historical fiction.
Australian fiction
Children's stories
History
Australiana
History.
Juvenile works.
Teen fiction
Historical fiction.
Novels.
ISBN 9781865087276