Title: Meet Poppy
Author: Gabrielle Wang
Published: 31/01/2011
ISBN: 9780143305323
It's 1864... and Poppy lives at bird Creek Mission near Echuca. Poppy hates the Mission, especially now that her brother, Gus, has run away to pan for gold. What if Poppy escaped, too? Would she survive alone in the bush? And would she ever find Gus, whom she loves more than anything in the world?
Meet Poppy and join her adventure in the first of four stories about a Gold Rush girl who dreams of a better life.
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Gabrielle Wang is an award-winning children’s author and illustrator. She has written and illustrated more than twenty novels for young readers. Her latest middle grade novel Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon was Shortlisted for the 2023 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Queensland Literary Awards and NSW Premiers Literary Awards. Gabrielle was the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2022 and 2023 and is the Victorian Premiers Reading Challenge Ambassador 2024.