Nellie's Greatest Wish (Book 4)
Author: Penny Matthews
Illustrator: Lucia Masciullo
Book 12 in the Our Australian Girl series
Pages: 132
Published: 2012
Age: 8+
It's 1850...and Nellie is returning to Adelaide after searching for the Thompson family at the Burra. She's keen to get back to her best friend, Mary, who is ill in hospital. But she is in for a terrible shock...Even Nellie begins to feel that all is lost and that she might never achieve her dreams. Will her spirit be crushed, or can she turn her fate around?
Follow Nellie on her adventure in the final of four stories about an Irish girls with a big heart, in search of the freedom to be herself.
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.