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| Yvonne Coppard |
| E-Print |
| 1904904637 |
| Jan 2006 |
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Sometimes children need help or advice to understand and contend with the situations that arise within their lives and the lives of those around them. “Abuse: Sometimes, families hurt” by Yvonne Coppard is a practical, sensitively written and easily accessible guide to a number of such scenarios.
Activities and discussion points mean this is a book that perhaps lends itself most easily to use within the classroom, particularly within Personal, Social and Health Education class contexts. With sections outlining neglect, physical, sexual and emotional abuse, self-harm, domestic violence, parents with alcohol or drug dependency, parents with mental illness and finally racism in the family, the book is a useful reference point for all manner of abusive situations and offers practical guidance and advice as well as detailing information about where further support is available. This is a book that professionals in the field need to read, hold awareness of and make readily available in some form for young people.
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Non-Fiction: March 2006 Archives
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| Nancy Wake Secret Agent |
| Short Books |
| 1904977588 |
| January 2006 |
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| All too often history can be dry as dust, a collection of facts and figures, diagrams of battlefields and characters so foolhardy, brave or saintly that they belong on plinths.
This book tells is the tale of Nancy Wake, one of a select band of female spies parachuted into occupied Europe during the Second World War. The facts are all there but so too is the humanity and the cost of the Australian’s bravery in taking on the Nazi regime in her adopted homeland, France. This is history told in real time as a story, with conversations and characters that live off the page. Wake ran away from home at 16, left Australia soon after and blagged a job as a journalist in Paris at an age when most of us have still not left college. While in Paris she fell for well-to-do French businessman Henri Fiocca and married him in 1939. So far, so fairy tale but as we all know it wouldn’t last. The war was coming and everyone would be asked some difficult moral questions, keep your head down or resist. Wake was naturally drawn to the path of most resistance particularly as she had been to Austria and she knew what the Nazis were doing to Jews. Now based in Marseille she became involved in the resistance, helping British soldiers escape. Eventually, however, it became too risky and she had to flee. Once in England she joined the Special Operations Executive and was sent to central France as a secret agent to organise parachute drops for the resistance. The tale ends sadly at the end of the war when she returns to Marseille to try and track down her husband. Tragically her involvement with the resistance made him a target for the Gestapo and torture. This is a great yarn made all the more engaging because it is history. You probably wouldn’t believe it if it was fiction.
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