Elizabeth M. Wilton

When 16-year-old Sarah Haydon announces to her relatives that she is going to Australia to join her father, and that she's taking her four younger brothers and sisters with her, they all agree that it is "a ridiculous idea." But young Sarah gets her way. When the children arrive in Australia, they find their father's homestead, but their father is not there. He is away on business. He does not know that his wife has died or that his children await him. Helped by the young man who is tending the farm and neighbouring farm families, the children experience a series of adventures as they come to terms with their new lives. As the months pass, the children realize that their father has been gone far too long and that he may not return. This is a carefully researched and skillfully written work of historical fiction for young readers from the age of about 10 to the age of about 14, and perhaps a bit older.… (mehr)