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Outback teacher, the inspiring story of a remarkable young woman, life with her students and their adventures in remote Australia, Sally Gare with Freda Marnie

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Outback teacher, the inspiring story of a remarkable young woman, life with her students and their adventures in remote Australia, Sally Gare with Freda Marnie

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Outback teacher

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Sally Gare with Freda Marnie

Sub title

the inspiring story of a remarkable young woman, life with her students and their adventures in remote Australia

Summary

The year is 1956. Sally Gare is twenty. She's just out of teachers' college, and has been sent to work at a two-teacher school more than 3000 kilometres from Perth. With the head teacher away, she starts out alone with a class of forty-five Aboriginal children, ranging in age from five years to thirteen. Thus begins the career of a remarkable teacher and a life-changing adventure in remote Australia

Target audience

adult

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