Emily Conolan Emily Conolan i(12585392 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Behind the Scenes of The Story Behind My Suitcase Emily Conolan , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 164 2022; (p. 30-35) 'Late nights after work, my colleague Gini and I draft a grant proposal. Months later, I'm standing in front of a group of her English language students at the local tech college. They're giggling wary. For most of them, the drama warm-up games I get them to play remind them of childhood - was a long time ago. Before the war, before the death of their sister, or their father. They're only in their late teens and early twenties, but childhood is something that happened in a refugee camp, cut short of mixed with too-adult memories. Now, their lives are in metamorphosis, straddling worlds: not adult, nor child; not foreigner, nor Australian, not lost, nor yet quite finding their path.' (Introduction)
1 y separately published work icon Move the Mountains Emily Conolan , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2019 16559565 2019 children's fiction children's adventure

'Choose your own destiny and follow the exciting twists and turns of a girl leaving war-torn Italy to find a new home in Australia's Snowy Mountains in the 1950s.

'To find freedom, you must leave behind everything you've ever known.

'It is 1951. During the war, you rescued and hid an Australian airman near your small Italian village. He told you that you could be anything you dreamed of - but those dreams are fast slipping away. As you make the leap for a new life, you find yourself facing life-and-death choices at every turn.

'Can you overthrow the curse of bad luck that has plagued your family and prove yourself in a new land? You'll be asked to stand up to bullies, stage a mutiny, and make your contribution to one of the greatest engineering projects the world has ever seen.

'At every turn, the choice is yours. How far will you go for freedom?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 y separately published work icon Touch the Sun Emily Conolan , Australia : Allen and Unwin , 2018 12586234 2018 single work children's fiction children's

An interactive adventure story in which the reader is a Somalian boy fleeing Mogadishu for Australia.
1 1 y separately published work icon Break Your Chains Emily Conolan , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2018 12585822 2018 single work children's fiction children's

An interactive adventure book in which the reader is a girl travelling from Ireland to Australia in 1825.
1 y separately published work icon The Freedom Finders Emily Conolan , 2018- 12585433 2018 series - author children's fiction

A collection of interactive adventure stories (e.g., Choose Your Own Adventure).
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