| ISBN |
9781742032238 (pbk. ) |
| Classification Number |
R994.02 BRE |
| Author |
Brennan, Net |
| Title |
Child convicts [BK] |
| Physical Description |
illustrations (some colour), colour maps, portraits ; |
| Note |
"Their story is one of survival. Their story is one of nation-building." -- Cover. |
| Includes index |
| Contents |
Great Southern land -- Crime -- The first fleet -- Starvation -- A land without people? -- Your convict origins -- From a gaol to a colony -- Punishment -- Boys will be boys -- Escape -- Mothers of our nation -- The end of transportation -- Our convict links. |
| At the age of seven, children in eighteenth century Britain were tried in court like adults. Some, as young as nine, were transported to the colonies. Their names may not be familiar, but one of these child convicts would become the first person hanged in Australia, another would be celebrated on our twenty-dollar note and a third would count a future prime minister as a descendant. Their story is one of survival. Their story is one of nation-building. Their story is the story of Australia. |
| Classification |
For Primary School. |
| Subject |
Convict -- Transportation. |
| Juvenile delinquenc -- Australi -- History. |
| Children in Australi -- History. |
| Penal colonie -- History. |
| Penal colonies -- History |
| Children in Australia -- History |
| Convicts -- Transportation |
| Juvenile delinquency -- Australia -- History |
| Convicts -- Australia -- Juvenile literature |
| Prisoner -- History. |
| Juvenile delinquents -- History -- Australia -- 19th century -- Juvneile literature |
| Prisoners -- History |
| Juvenile delinquents |
| Prisoners |
| Punishment -- Australia -- History |
| Australia -- Social conditions -- 1788-1851 |
| Australia -- History -- 1788-1900 -- Juvenile literature |
| Australia -- History -- 1788-1900 -- Juvenile literature |
| Australia -- Social conditions -- 1788-1851 |
| Australia -- History -- 1788-1851 |
| Australia -- History |
| Australia -- History -- 1788-1851 |
| Australia |
| Australia -- History -- Juvenile literature |
| Australia -- History -- 19th century |
