The Burnt Stick

Growing up in a missionary home run by white men, John Jagamarra, who is part aborigine and part white, misses the mother from whom he’s been separated and the culture of his own people.

Related: Australia, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Oceania

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