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'Akala seriously loves cooking. She’s going to be a great pastry chef one day, and learns more about creating sweets at Mr Aziz’s cooking club every school holidays. But when Mr Aziz sets the club a cake-making challenge, Akala is stumped.' (Source: Publishers website)

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Publisher: Oxford University Press

Melbourne, Victoria,: Oxford University Press , 2014 .

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Extent: 40p.
Description: col. illus.
ISBN: 9780195524383

Series: y Yarning Strong Laguna Bay Publishing (publisher), Oxford University Press (publisher), Mosman Melbourne : Laguna Bay Publishing Oxford University Press , 2011-2014 Z1767119 2011 series - publisher children's fiction children's Abstract
An Indigenous education series for ALL young Australians and their teachers.

Twelve 64-page novels

Four 48-page graphic novels

Four anthologies (comprising many text types: poems, artworks, descriptions, plays and so on)

Behind the Stories DVD

Professional Support CD-ROM

160-page Professional Support manual

What's it like to be a young Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person in Australia today? Yarning Strong provides some of the answers for upper primary (and lower secondary) students.

All stories have been written by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander writers, and a committee of respected Indigenous educators guided the development and content of the series.

Source: www.lagunabaypublishing.com (Sighted 18/03/2011).
y Yarning Strong Identity Series South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 2011 8707269 2011 series - publisher graphic novel Abstract This series of books 'gathers Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal voices from throughout Australia, exploring what it means to have an Indigenous identity in our country today, and looking forward to a time when the ‘two worlds’ of Australia become one.' (Source: Publisher's website)