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When young Rosa arrives with her family from London at the diggings on the Ballarat goldfield in 1854, she finds herself a witness to the tumultuous events leading to revolution for social justice for the miners, and records her observations in letters to the friend she left behind in England.
First publish date: 2000
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Nadia Wheatley
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