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Authors: Jackie French
Jackie’s love of history began as a child and has been the inspiration for the series of books that began with
Somewhere Around the Corner
, followed by
Daughter of the Regiment, Soldier on the Hill, Lady Dance, The White Ship, How the Finnegans Saved the Ship
and
Valley of Gold
. Jackie feels that the past was not only a fascinating adventure, but also holds the clues to understanding our own time.
Hitler’s Daughter
has received wide critical acclaim and in 2000 won the Children’s Book Council Book of the Year for Younger Readers.
‘It is a mark of French’s genius that she can weave deep moral issues into an engrossing, fast-moving story.’
Stephen Matthews,
Canberra Times
Fiction
The Roo that Won the Melbourne Cup • Rain Stones
Walking the Boundaries • The Boy Who Had Wings
Somewhere Around the Corner
Annie’s Pouch • Alien Games • The Secret Beach
Mermaids • Mind’s Eye • A Wombat Named Bosco
Summerland • Beyond the Boundaries
The Warrior – The Story of a Wombat
The Book of Unicorns • Dancing with Ben Hall
Soldier on the Hill • Daughter of the Regiment
Stories to Eat with a Banana • Tajore Arkle
Hitler’s Daughter • In the Blood • Missing You, Love Sara
Stories to Eat with a Watermelon • Lady Dance
Stories to Eat with a Blood Plum
How the Finnegans Saved the Ship
Dark Wind Blowing • A Story to Eat with a Mandarin
Ride the Wild Wind • Blood Moon • The White Ship
Phredde and the Leopard-skin Librarian • Valley of Gold
Non-fiction
How the Aliens from Alpha Centauri Invaded My
Maths Class and Turned Me Into a Writer …
How to Guzzle Your Garden • Book of Challenges
Stamp, Stomp, Whomp
(and other interesting ways to get rid of pests)
Seasons of Content • The Best of Jackie French
Earthly Delights
The Fascinating History of Your Lunch
The Secret Life of Santa Claus
Big Burps, Bare Bums and Other Bad-Mannered Blunders
Visit Jackie’s website
www.jackiefrench.com
The bombs were falling, the smoke was rising from the concentration camps, but Hitler’s daughter knew nothing of this. All she knew was the world of lessons with Fräulein Gelber; the hedgehogs she rescued from the cold and the exciting visits from her beloved father Duffi. Until the day she is taken to her father’s bunker in Berlin …
Anna’s story about Hitler’s daughter haunts Mark. Could it have been true? Did Hitler’s daughter really exist? If Mark had a father like Hitler, could he love him?
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The hole was moving! The walls were falling down … There was a rope under his arms. There was a face above. An anxious face, yelling something down to him, something he didn’t understand. A strange face, with something wrong about the eyes. Tanned skin, unshaven, black hair a bit too long …
Joey knows there is a Japanese soldier hiding in the hills. It was a Japanese man, a soldier, who hauled him out of the mine shaft, who lit the fire to bring the searchers, and then disappeared. But nobody believes Joey. After all, it is World War II and children have nightmares … Joey knows he will have to find the soldier himself … he must find him … could he be part of an invasion force … could he be sending messages to waiting submarines?
Just shut your eyes and picture yourself walking around a corner. That’s what my friend told me. Somewhere around the corner you’ll be safe
.
The demonstration was wild, out of control. Barbara was scared. She saw the policeman running towards her. She needed to escape. She closed her eyes and did precisely that: she walked somewhere around the corner … into another demonstration … another time.
Barbara was lucky—she met Young Jim who took her out of the strange, frightening city to his home. It was 1932, when Australia was in the grip of the Depression, and Jim lived in a shanty town …
But Barbara found a true friend and a true home—somewhere safe around the corner.
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Angus&Robertson
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First published in Australia in 1998
This edition published in 2014
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Copyright © Jackie French 1998
The right of her to be identified as the moral rights author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the
Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000
(Cth).
Poem on page 84 ‘To Daffodils’ written by Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
French, Jackie.
Daughter of the regiment.
I. Title.
A823.3
Cover design by Antart
Cover images: Families at Happy Valley, Hood Collection, State Library of NSW
Source ISBN: 9780207196744
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