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'Something is happening. I can hear bullets going off, and people are running down towards the Eureka field...

'In 1854 Rosa Aarons and her family travel from London to the goldfields at Ballarat. She makes new friends, learns to ride a horse and helps her family get by. Soon Rosa becomes caught up in one of the most dramatic events in Australian history: the Eureka Stockade. As the battle between the miners and the soldiers rages around her, Rosa's main concern is the safety of her beloved Papa.' (Publication summary)

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y separately published work icon Re-Visiting Historical Fiction for Young Readers : The Past through Modern Eyes Kim Wilson , New York (City) : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group , 2011 Z1886683 2011 single work criticism 'This study is concerned with how readers are positioned to interpret the past in historical fiction for children and young adults. Looking at literature published within the last thirty to forty years, Wilson identifies and explores a prevalent trend for re-visioning and rewriting the past according to modern social and political ideological assumptions. Fiction within this genre, while concerned with the past at the level of content, is additionally concerned with present views of that historical past because of the future to which it is moving. Specific areas of discussion include the identification of a new sub-genre: Living history fiction, stories of Joan of Arc, historical fiction featuring agentic females, the very popular Scholastic Press historical journal series, fictions of war, and historical fiction featuring multicultural discourses.

Wilson observes specific traits in historical fiction written for children — most notably how the notion of positive progress into the future is nuanced differently in this literature in which the concept of progress from the past is inextricably linked to the protagonist's potential for agency and the realization of subjectivity. The genre consistently manifests a concern with identity construction that in turn informs and influences how a metanarrative of positive progress is played out. This book engages in a discussion of the functionality of the past within the genre and offers an interpretative frame for the sifting out of the present from the past in historical fiction for young readers.' (Publisher's blurb)
Untitled Kathy Forward , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 45 no. 1 2001; (p. 25)
— Review of Surviving Sydney Cove : The Diary of Elizabeth Harvey, Sydney, 1790 Goldie Alexander , 2000 single work children's fiction ; Plagues and Federation : The Diary of Kitty Barnes, the Rocks, Sydney, 1901 Vashti Farrer , 2000 single work children's fiction ; A Banner Bold : The Diary of Rosa Aarons, Ballarat Goldfields, 1854 Nadia Wheatley , 2000 single work children's fiction ; A Tale of Two Families : The Diary of Jan Packard, Melbourne, 1974 Jenny Pausacker , 2000 single work novel
Untitled Peta Harrison , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 15 no. 1 2001; (p. 47-48)
— Review of A Banner Bold : The Diary of Rosa Aarons, Ballarat Goldfields, 1854 Nadia Wheatley , 2000 single work children's fiction
Historical Fiction : With Reference to the My Story Series Alison Gregg , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 15 no. 4 2000; (p. 34-35)
— Review of A Banner Bold : The Diary of Rosa Aarons, Ballarat Goldfields, 1854 Nadia Wheatley , 2000 single work children's fiction ; A Tale of Two Families : The Diary of Jan Packard, Melbourne, 1974 Jenny Pausacker , 2000 single work novel ; Plagues and Federation : The Diary of Kitty Barnes, the Rocks, Sydney, 1901 Vashti Farrer , 2000 single work children's fiction ; Surviving Sydney Cove : The Diary of Elizabeth Harvey, Sydney, 1790 Goldie Alexander , 2000 single work children's fiction
Untitled Kathy Forward , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 45 no. 1 2001; (p. 25)
— Review of Surviving Sydney Cove : The Diary of Elizabeth Harvey, Sydney, 1790 Goldie Alexander , 2000 single work children's fiction ; Plagues and Federation : The Diary of Kitty Barnes, the Rocks, Sydney, 1901 Vashti Farrer , 2000 single work children's fiction ; A Banner Bold : The Diary of Rosa Aarons, Ballarat Goldfields, 1854 Nadia Wheatley , 2000 single work children's fiction ; A Tale of Two Families : The Diary of Jan Packard, Melbourne, 1974 Jenny Pausacker , 2000 single work novel
Historical Fiction : With Reference to the My Story Series Alison Gregg , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 15 no. 4 2000; (p. 34-35)
— Review of A Banner Bold : The Diary of Rosa Aarons, Ballarat Goldfields, 1854 Nadia Wheatley , 2000 single work children's fiction ; A Tale of Two Families : The Diary of Jan Packard, Melbourne, 1974 Jenny Pausacker , 2000 single work novel ; Plagues and Federation : The Diary of Kitty Barnes, the Rocks, Sydney, 1901 Vashti Farrer , 2000 single work children's fiction ; Surviving Sydney Cove : The Diary of Elizabeth Harvey, Sydney, 1790 Goldie Alexander , 2000 single work children's fiction
Untitled Peta Harrison , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 15 no. 1 2001; (p. 47-48)
— Review of A Banner Bold : The Diary of Rosa Aarons, Ballarat Goldfields, 1854 Nadia Wheatley , 2000 single work children's fiction
y separately published work icon Re-Visiting Historical Fiction for Young Readers : The Past through Modern Eyes Kim Wilson , New York (City) : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group , 2011 Z1886683 2011 single work criticism 'This study is concerned with how readers are positioned to interpret the past in historical fiction for children and young adults. Looking at literature published within the last thirty to forty years, Wilson identifies and explores a prevalent trend for re-visioning and rewriting the past according to modern social and political ideological assumptions. Fiction within this genre, while concerned with the past at the level of content, is additionally concerned with present views of that historical past because of the future to which it is moving. Specific areas of discussion include the identification of a new sub-genre: Living history fiction, stories of Joan of Arc, historical fiction featuring agentic females, the very popular Scholastic Press historical journal series, fictions of war, and historical fiction featuring multicultural discourses.

Wilson observes specific traits in historical fiction written for children — most notably how the notion of positive progress into the future is nuanced differently in this literature in which the concept of progress from the past is inextricably linked to the protagonist's potential for agency and the realization of subjectivity. The genre consistently manifests a concern with identity construction that in turn informs and influences how a metanarrative of positive progress is played out. This book engages in a discussion of the functionality of the past within the genre and offers an interpretative frame for the sifting out of the present from the past in historical fiction for young readers.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Subjects:
  • Country towns,
Settings:
  • Ballarat, Ballarat area, Ballarat - Bendigo area, Victoria,
  • 1854
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