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4) The exiles
Author
Language
English
Description
Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...
5) You wouldn't want to be an 18th-century British convict!: a trip to Australia you'd rather not take
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Brief text, sidebars, labeled illustrations, and humorous cartoons depict the life of a British criminal condemned to a penal colony on Australia in the eighteenth century.
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