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  • Published: 22 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9781743485583
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144

Our Australian Girl: Marly's Business (Book 2)




Follow Marly on her adventure in the second of four stories about a daring girl torn between two worlds.

It's 1983 . . . and Marly needs a job.  She wants to buy Donkey Kong cards to swap with the other kids at school, but her parents think the cards are a waste of money.  Then Marly's friend Yousra gives her an idea, and she decides to start her own business.  But working on your own isn't easy, and when she catches a bus that goes in the wrong direction, it's just the start of Marly's problems! 
Follow Marly on her adventure in the second of four stories about a daring girl torn between two worlds.

  • Published: 22 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9781743485583
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144

About the authors

Alice Pung

Alice Pung OAM is the bestselling author of the memoirs Unpolished Gem and Her Father's Daughter, which won the WA Premier's Award for non-fiction, and the essay collection Close to Home. Her first novel, Laurinda, won the Ethel Turner Prize at the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. She is also the editor of the anthologies Growing Up Asian in Australia and My First Lesson, and the author of children's books including Be Careful, Xiao Xin! (illus. Sher Rill Ng), When Grandma Came to Stay (illus. Sally Soweal Han) and the Millie Mak series (illus. Sher Rill Ng). One Hundred Days, her most recent novel, was shortlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Award. Alice was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for services to literature in 2022.

Lucia Masciullo

Lucia Masciullo grew up in Livorno, Tuscany. She moved to Australia in 2007 and since then she has been happily working as an illustrator. She has illustrated more than 30 books, among which are the CBCA Honour Book and Prime Minister Award short-listed Come Down, Cat! by Sonya Hartnett, as well as the Our Australian Girl series, Meet Katie at the Beach by Rebecca Johnson in the Aussie Kids series, and An A to Z of Dreaming Differently by Tracey Dembo. She now lives on the Gold Coast.