Escape from Cockatoo Island (My Australian Story)

Yvette Poshoglian

I am in the middle of Sydney Harbour, stuck on this place the masters call Cockatoo Island...I am here because I am an orphan, but I cannot help feeling like I have been sent here for doing something wrong. It is 1879 and life in the Biloela Industrial School is tough for eleven-year-old Olivia Markham....