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Authors: Jackie French
Barney Bean has secrets; so
secret they have not
been spoken about for over two hundred
years.
What is his secret about Birrung, the Indigenous
girl who was adopted by the colony's first
clergyman, Richard Johnson?
This first book in The Secret
Histories series is
based on the true and extraordinary
story
of Birrung and the Johnsons.
âBirrung
brings to life a time and place so
strongly
you can almost taste it'
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First published in Australia in 2016
This edition published in 2016
by HarperCollins
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Text copyright © Jackie French 2016
Illustrations copyright © Mark Wilson 2016
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
French, Jackie, author.
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Barney and the secret of the whales / Jackie French ; Mark Wilson.
ISBN: 978 0 7322 9944 6 (paperback)
ISBN: 978 1 4607 0322 9 (ebook)
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French, Jackie. Secret histories ; 2.
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For primary school age.
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WhalesâJuvenile fiction.
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WhalingâNew South WalesâJuvenile fiction.
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New South Walesâ1788â1851âJuvenile fiction.
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Wilson, Mark, illustrator.
A823.3
Cover design by HarperCollins Design Studio
Cover illustration by Mark Wilson
Cover image: Boy © Per Magnus Persson / Johnér Images / Corbis