My Australian Story

My Australian Story, originally published as My Story, is a book series published by Scholastic Australia. The series was inspired by Dear America. In 2005, the series was re-titled My Australian Story and several books were republished to reflect the new title. The series was relaunched two more times in 2010 with The Hunt for Ned Kelly and in 2016 with Black Sunday.

Told in a diary format, My Australian Story features both female and male protagonists during important moments in Australian history.

Background and topics[]

In 2000, My Story was launched as an Australian equivalent to Dear America. It was renamed to My Australian Story in 2005 with its first relaunch and has retained the name since then. The series was relaunched in 2010 and 2016. The current iteration is published by Omnibus Books, an imprint of Scholastic. My Australian Story features both male and female protagonists with topics ranging from traveling in 1785 to Botany Bay in On Board the Boussole to the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Bushfire. The series and its New Zealand counterpart are the only series to cover events from the 1970s to the 2010s.

List of books[]

Original[]

No.	Title	Author	Published	ISBN
1	A Banner Bold	Nadia Wheatley	September 2000^[1]	9781865042640
2	Plagues and Federation	Vashti Farrer	September 2000^[2]	9781865042664
3	A Tale of Two Families (aka Secrets and Sisterhood)	Jenny Pausacker	September 2000^[3]	9781865042657
4	Surviving Sydney Cove	Goldie Alexander	September 2000^[4]	9781865042671
5	The Rum Rebellion	Libby Gleeson	September 2001^[5]	9781865043623
6	The Yankee Whaler (aka Fremantle Prison Break)	Deborah Lisson	October 2001^[6]	9781865044385
7	A Different Sort of Real (aka The Deadly Flu)	Kerry Greenwood	November 2001^[7]	9781865043838
8	Who Am I?	Anita Heiss	December 2001^[8]	9781865043616
9	On Board the Boussole (aka Voyage to Botany Bay)	Chrissie Michaels	June 2002^[9]	9781865044354
10	The Bombing of Darwin	Alan Tucker	August 2002^[10]	9781865043630
11	Fords and Flying Machines	Patricia Bernard	October 2003^[11]	9781865045627
12	Snowy	Siobhan McHugh	October 2003^[12]	9781865045634
13	Riding with Thunderbolt	Allan Baillie	April 2004^[13]	9781865045801
14	Our Don Bradman (aka Don Bradman and Me)	Peter Allen	June 2004^[14]	9781865045917
15	A Marathon of Her Own	Irini Savvides	August 2004^[15]	9781865046358
16	Our Enemy, My Friend (aka My Friend, the Enemy)	Jenny Blackman	February 2005^[16]	9781865045269

2005 relaunch[]

No.	Title	Author	Published	ISBN
1	A Banner Bold	Nadia Wheatley	August 2005^[17]	9781865048529
2	New Gold Mountain	Christopher Cheng	August 2005^[18]	9781865048512
3	The Bombing of Darwin	Alan Tucker	August 2005^[19]	9781865048536
4	Outback	Christine Harris	October 2005^[20]	9781865048505
5	Surviving Sydney Cove	Goldie Alexander	January 2006^[21]	9781865048574
6	Plagues and Federation	Vashti Farrer	January 2006^[22]	9781865048550
7	Cyclone Tracy	Alan Tucker	February 2006^[23]	9781865049168
8	A Tale of Two Families (aka Secrets and Sisterhood)	Jenny Pausacker	March 2006^[24]	9781865048598
9	Who Am I?	Anita Heiss	March 2006^[25]	9781865048581
10	The Rum Rebellion	Libby Gleeson	May 2006^[26]	9781865048543
11	Refugee	Alan Sunderland	June 2006^[27]	9781865049199
12	A Different Sort of Real (aka The Deadly Flu)	Kerry Greenwood	May 2006^[28]	9781865048628
13	Our Don Bradman	Peter Allen	November 2006^[29]	9781865048680
14	The Melting Pot	Christopher Cheng	July 2007^[30]	9781865049755
15	Archer's Melbourne Cup	Vashti Farrer	October 2007^[31]	9781865049410
16	Claw of the Dragon (aka Snatched by Pirates)	Patricia Bernard	March 2008^[32]	9781865048611
17	Atomic Testing	Alan Tucker	February 2009^[33]	9781741692174

2010 relaunch[]

No.	Title	Author	Published	ISBN
1	The Hunt for Ned Kelly	Sophie Masson	February 2010^[34]	9781741695649
2	Outback	Christine Harris	April 2010^[35]	9781741696158
3	Refugee	Alan Sunderland	May 2010^[36]	9781741696165
4	Who Am I?	Anita Heiss	July 2010^[37]	9781741697261
5	Surviving Sydney Cove	Goldie Alexander	August 2010^[38]	9781741696172
6	Cyclone Tracy	Alan Tucker	September 2010^[39]	9781741697292
7	The Phar Lap Mystery	Sophie Masson	October 2010^[40]	9781741697278
8	Our Don Bradman	Peter Allen	November 2010^[41]	9781741696141
9	The Melting Pot	Christopher Cheng	January 2011^[42]	9781741698114
10	A Banner Bold	Nadia Wheatley	February 2011^[43]	9781741697773
11	My Father's War	Sophie Masson	March 2011^[44]	9781741698282
12	The Bombing of Darwin	Alan Tucker	March 2011^[45]	9781741697308
13	Plagues and Federation	Vashti Farrer	April 2011^[46]	9781741697780
14	New Gold Mountain	Christopher Cheng	September 2011^[47]	9781925064063
15	Archer's Melbourne Cup	Vashti Farrer	October 2011^[48]	9781925063899
16	The Deadly Flu (aka A Different Sort of Real)	Kerry Greenwood	January 2012^[49]	9781925063875
17	Sydney Harbour Bridge	Vashti Farrer	February 2012^[50]	9781741699531
18	Secrets and Sisterhood (aka A Tale of Two Families)	Jenny Pausacker	February 2012^[51]	9781741698442
19	Heroes of Tobruk	David Mulligan	March 2012^[52]	9781742833224
20	The Rum Rebellion	Libby Gleeson	April 2012^[53]	9781741697797
21	Snatched by Pirates (aka Claw of the Dragon)	Patricia Bernard	June 2012^[54]	9781741698459
22	Voyage to Botany Bay (aka On Board the Boussole)	Chrissie Michaels	July 2012^[55]	9781741699111
23	My Friend, the Enemy (aka Our Enemy, My Friend)	Jenny Blackman	August 2012^[56]	9781741699081
24	Fords and Flying Machines	Patricia Bernard	February 2013^[57]	9781741699074
25	Escape from Cockatoo Island	Yvette Poshoglian	February 2013^[58]	9781742832456
26	Gallipoli	Alan Tucker	March 2013^[59]	9781742836935
27	Fremantle Prison Break (aka The Yankee Whaler)	Deborah Lisson	March 2013^[60]	9781741699098
28	Kokoda	Alan Tucker	March 2013^[61]	9781925063837
29	A Marathon of Her Own	Irini Savvides	May 2013^[62]	9781741699043
30	Snowy	Siobhan McHugh	June 2013^[63]	9781741699050
31	Riding with Thunderbolt	Allan Baillie	July 2013^[64]	9781925064209
32	Atomic Testing	Alan Tucker	August 2013^[65]	9781741699067
33	Convict Girl	Chrissie Michaels	June 2014^[66]	9781743620151
34	Vietnam	Deborah Challinor	July 2015^[67]	9781743628003

2016 relaunch[]

No.	Title	Author	Published	ISBN
1	Black Sunday	Evan McHugh	August 2016^[68]	9781743627990
2	Our Race for Reconciliation	Anita Heiss	May 2017^[69]	9781760276119
3	Don Bradman and Me (aka Our Don Bradman)	Peter Allen	December 2017^[70]	9781742769653
4	Kokoda	Alan Tucker	March 2018^[71]	9781742769646
5	The Bombing of Darwin	Alan Tucker	March 2018^[72]	9781742769561
6	Stowaway to Botany Bay (aka On Board the Boussole)	Chrissie Michaels	July 2018^[73]	9781742996158
7	Freemantle Prison Break (aka The Yankee Whaler)	Deborah Lisson	January 2019^[74]	9781760662493
8	Bushfire	Sally Murphy	February 2019^[75]	9781742994307
9	Vietnam	Deborah Challinor	March 2019^[76]	9781742769578
10	Rebellion at Eureka	Alan Tucker	April 2019^[77]	9781742994314
11	Castle Hill Rebellion	Chrissie Michaels	May 2019^[78]	9781742991863
12	Surviving Sydney Cove	Goldie Alexander	May 2019^[79]	9781742769615
13	Outback	Christine Harris	June 2019^[80]	9781760662486
14	Snowy	Siobhan McHugh	July 2019^[81]	9781760669256
15	The Hunt for Ned Kelly	Sophie Masson	August 2019^[82]	9781742769608
16	Bridging Sydney (aka Sydney Harbour Bridge)	Vashti Farrer	August 2019^[83]	9781760663513
17	Heroes of Tobruk	David Mulligan	March 2020^[84]	9781742769622
18	Gallipoli	Alan Tucker	March 2020^[85]	9781742769592
19	Who Am I?	Anita Heiss	May 2020^[86]	9781742769585
20	Contagion (aka A Different Sort of Real/The Deadly Flu)	Kerry Greenwood	August 2020^[87]	9781760975562
21	Escape from Cockatoo Island	Yvette Poshoglian	January 2021^[88]	9781760971274
22	Six Seconds	Alan Sunderland	March 2021^[89]	9781743838235
23	The Battle for Victoria Street	Gabiann Marin	May 2024^[90]	9781743833995

Related books[]

Title	Author	Published	ISBN
My Story: Teacher's Resource Book 1	Kate McAllen	April 2006^[91]	9781865046457
My Story: Teacher's Resource Book 2	Kate McAllen	April 2006^[92]	9781865046457
My Story: Teacher's Resource Book 3	Kate McAllen	June 2006^[93]	9781865046464

References[]

External links[]

Scholastic Australia
My Story at Scholastic Australia (archive)
My Australian Story on Wikipedia

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