Meet Daisy (Book 1)
Author: Michelle Hamer
Illustrator: Lucia Masciullo
Book 33 in the Our Australian Girl series
Pages: 136
Published: 2014
Age: 8+
It's 1930 and Daisy lives on a farm, where she loves riding her horse, Jimmy, through the paddocks. Times are tough, and when her father loses his job, Daisy and her little sister, Flora, are sent to Melbourne to live with their aunt and uncle. Daisy must leave behind everyone she loves for a city she's never seen, and even her wildest daydreams can't prepare her for the new life that awaits her...
Meet Daisy and join her adventure in the first of four exciting stories about a hopeful girl in troubled times.
About the Our Australian Girl Series
Books in series order
- 1.Meet Grace (Book 1)(2011)
- 2.A Friend for Grace (Book 2)(2011)
- 3.Grace and Glory (Book 3)(2011)
- 4.A Home for Grace (Book 4)(2011)
- 5.Meet Letty (Book 1)(2011)
- 6.Letty and the Stranger's Lace (Book 2)(2011)
- 7.Letty on the Land (Book 3)(2011)
- 8.Letty's Christmas (Book 4)(2011)
- 9.Meet Nellie (Book 1)(2011)
- 10.Nellie and the Secret Letter (Book 2)(2012)
- 11.Nellie's Quest (Book 3)(2012)
- 12.Nellie's Greatest Wish (Book 4)(2012)
- 13.Meet Poppy (Book 1)(2011)
- 14.Poppy at Summerhill (Book 2)(2011)
- 15.Poppy and the Thief (Book 3)(2011)
- 16.Poppy Comes Home (Book 4)(2011)
- 17.Meet Rose (Book 1)(2011)
- 18.Rose on Wheels (Book 2)(2011)
- 19.Rose's Challenge (Book 3)(2011)
- 20.Rose in Bloom (Book 4)(2011)
- 21.Meet Alice (Book 1)(2012)
- 22.Alice and the Apple Blossom Fair (Book 2)(2012)
- 23.Alice of Peppermint Grove (Book 3)(2012)
- 24.Peacetime for Alice (Book 4)(2012)
- 25.Meet Lina (Book 1)(2013)
- 26.Lina's Many Lives (Book 2)(2013)
- 27.Lina at the Games (Book 3)(2013)
- 28.A Lesson for Lina (Book 4)(2013)
- 29.Meet Ruby (Book 1)(2013)
- 30.Ruby and the Country Cousins (Book 2)(2013)
- 31.School Days for Ruby (Book 3)(2013)
- 32.Ruby of Kettle Farm (Book 4)(2013)
- 33.Meet Daisy (Book 1)(2014)
- 34.Daisy All Alone (Book 2)(2014)
- 35.Daisy in the Mansion (Book 3)(2014)
- 36.Daisy on the Road (Book 4)(2014)
- 37.Meet Pearlie (Book 1)(2014)
- 38.Pearlie's Pet Rescue (Book 2)(2014)
- 39.Pearlie the Spy (Book 3)(2014)
- 40.Pearlie's Ghost (Book 4)(2014)
- 41.Meet Marly (Book 1)(2015)
- 42.Marly's Business (Book 2)(2015)
- 43.Marly and the Goat (Book 3)(2015)
- 44.Marly Walks on the Moon (Book 4)(2016)
Reading age: 8+ years
This series should be read in order.
Our Australian Girl is a series set in different periods of Australian history. Each period features a courageous girl, whose adventures are told over four books.
Some of the engaging characters portrayed in the series: Grace, an orphaned 'mudlark' in London's Thames, who is transported to Australia in 1808 after stealing apples to feed a cabbie's horse; Letty, an accidental emigrant, travelling with her more adventurous sister in 1841; Poppy, the daughter of a Chinese father and an Aboriginal mother, who escapes a mission in the goldrush of 1864; and Rose, who in 1900, dreams of an "unladylike" life with fewer restrictions for girls and women.
Note: While the series as a whole does not need to be in order, each sub-series of four books should be read sequentially.