Stowaway to Botany Bay
Author | : Chrissie Michaels |
Publisher | : Scholastic Australia |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2012-07-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781925063929 |
ISBN-13 | : 1925063925 |
Rating | : 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: I dared not move... I was a bread stealer. A chicken feather villain. A salted mutton thief. I guiltily recalled the paper, the ink, the leather pouch I had stolen. And even though I had not intended it so ... I was a stowaway. Julienne roams the fortress tunnels of Brest, France, cold, hungry and knowing only one thing about herself — her name. Soon she must abandon even that remnant of her identity. She becomes Jules, ship's boy, journeying to Botany Bay and beyond on a voyage of discovery for the glory of France, led by Commander Laperouse. Jules/Julienne sees new and strange things on board the Boussole, but what she would most like to discover is her own history: who is Julienne Fulbert?