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Jackie French

Jackie French AM is an award-winning writer, wombat negotiator, the 2014–2015 Australian Children's Laureate and the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. In 2016 Jackie became a Member of the Order of Australia for her contribution to children's literature and her advocacy for youth literacy. She is regarded as one of Australia's most popular children's authors and writes across all genres — from picture books, history, fantasy, ecology and sci-fi to her much loved historical fiction for a variety of age groups. ‘A book can change a child's life. A book can change the world' was the primary philosophy behind Jackie's two-year term as Laureate.

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Title:: Pennies For Hitler (MP3)
Written by:: Jackie French
Read by:: Humphrey Bower
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 1
Duration:: 9 hours 8 minutes
MP3 size:: 400 MB
Published:: March 01 2014
Available Date:: March 01 2014
Age Category:: Children (10+)
ISBN:: 9781486208432
Genres:: Fiction; Australian Fiction; General Fiction; Historical Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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'Evocatively written, Pennies is a gentle gem.'
Sydney Morning Herald

The companion to the award-winning modern children's classic Hitler's Daughter.

It's 1939, and for Georg, son of an English academic living in Germany, life is full of cream cakes and loving parents. It is also a time when his teacher measures the pupils' heads to see which of them have the most 'Aryan'- shaped heads. But when a university graduation ceremony turns into a pro-Nazi demonstration, Georg is smuggled out of Germany to war-torn London and then across enemy seas to Australia where he must forget his past and who he is in order to survive. Hatred is contagious, but Georg finds that kindness can be, too. The companion piece to Hitler's Daughter, Pennies for Hitler examines the life of a child during World War II, from a different perspective.

'Jackie French's research and subsequent feeling for the era is superb (the descriptions of wartime Australia alone are fascinating). This is historical fiction at its best and thoroughly recommended for upper primary children and beyond.'
Australian Bookseller & Publisher

'This striking fiction for school-age readers gives an unflinching view of war and a close-up human perspective on asylum seekers.'
The Age