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Original Title:	A Waltz for Matilda
ISBN:	073229021X (ISBN13: 9780732290214)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Matilda Saga #1

A Waltz for Matilda (The Matilda Saga #1)

Jackie French

Paperback | Pages: 479 pages

Rating: 4.36 | 1484 Users | 143 Reviews

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Title	:	A Waltz for Matilda (The Matilda Saga #1)
Author	:	Jackie French
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 479 pages
Published	:	December 1st 2012 by HarperCollins Australia (first published December 1st 2010)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Cultural. Australia

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In 1894, twelve-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to find her unknown father and his farm. But drought grips the land, and the shearers are on strike. Her father has turned swaggie and he's wanted by the troopers. In front of his terrified daughter, he makes a stand against them, defiant to the last. ′You′ll never catch me alive, said he...′ Set against a backdrop of bushfire, flood, war and jubilation, this is the story of one girl's journey towards independence. It is also the story of others who had no vote and very little but their dreams. Drawing on the well-known poem by A.B. Paterson and from events rooted in actual history, this is the untold story behind Australia′s early years as an emerging nation.

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Set in 1894, A Waltz for Matilda begins when twelve-year-old Matilda flees the city slums and the ghosts of her guardians to find her unknown golden father and his farm. Matilda encounters the eccentric Mr. Gotobed and Mr. Doo on her travels to Moura but her fathers home is not the safe haven she thought it would be with the land in a state of turmoil, with the shearers on strike, Mr. Drinkwater looking for someone to blame, a drought robbing families of their farms and the stirrings of a Union

Beautifully written, so descriptive - you feel that you are right there with Matilda as she battles on in the harsh Aussie landscape.This is a tale that stays with you - months later I still find myself thinking about it.Totally G-rated and suitable for young readers - it was lovely to be able to share this wonderful story with my 12 year old daughter.

This was a sweet book. The raw ideas presented in this book are a bit over whelming, a parent's death, a twelve yr old making her way many, many miles alone, slums, flood, war, bushfires, some lawlessness , women as second class citizens and more. The perseverance of the main characters is well developed. The love shown by people to people. Some history of a country I am a bit enamored by made this a very enjoyable read. This would be an appropriate book for anyone from about age 12 up,

This is another masterpiece from Jackie French, packed with adventure, the beauty of Australia's Outback, reality, romance, heartbreak, bushfires, drought and sheep. It may ring of 20th Century Fox's The Man From Snowy River at times and most of the plot turns are predictable, but it truly is worth the read. Here is our sunburnt Australia at its most real. The characters are portrayed with depth and understanding, though we don't get a chance to know Matilda's dad very well. I thought the book

I read this on my way back to the US from Australia, so I had visions of gum trees and the dry countryside in my brain. I have enjoyed quite a few of Jackie French's books. I find historical fiction to be much more interesting than the history lessons I was subjected to in virtually all of my classes in grade school and beyond. That said, I do have a few things that make me uneasy about this book. Jackie French acknowledges in the introduction and the notes at the end of the book that the racism

I read this a long time ago as a teen and re reading it now is a treat.Love how Jackie French has based this of a song but it's incredibly historical. This centres around Federation, the start of the unions & the women's suffrage movement but it also touches the Boer War and WW1. I also love how she has shown the Indigenous reality without glossing over it

Loved it! re-read it as part of a reading challenge, well, two actually, and it broke my heart all over again!