Our australian girl [eBook - NC Kids Digital Library] : Meet Marly (Book 1): Meet Marly (Book 1)

It's 1983 in Sunshine, Melbourne, and funny, quick-thinking Marly is just trying to fit in. But being a 10-year-old boat refugee from Saigon doesn't make things easy. Especially when your cousins come to stay - permanently! Marly tries to teach them Australian ways, but as her school friends start making fun of her too, she is torn between her loyalties to her cousins and sticking up for what she knows is right, and wanting to fit in. To make matters worse, Marly discovers she has accidentally named herself after one of Michael Jackson's brothers ... It's 1983 . . . and Marly is just trying to fit in at Sunshine Primary School.? But being a refugee from Vietnam doesn't make things easy, and when Marly's cousins come to stay and end up at the same school, her friends make fun of them.? How can Marly stay loyal to her cousins and keep her school friends as well?? Meet Marly and join in her adventure in the first of four exciting stories about a daring girl torn between two worlds. ? ?