TY  - GEN
AU  -  Wilding, Valerie
TI  - No way back
T2  - My Story
SN  - 9781407117843
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Scholastic
KW  - Juvenile Literature
KW  - Diaries and Journals
KW  - Based on True Stories
KW  - Historical Fiction
KW  - Biography
N2  - The riveting true story of thirteen-year-old Mary Wade – one of the first and youngest British convicts to be transported to Australia. Raised in the slums of eighteenth-century London, Mary is sentenced to death for petty theft at the age of just eleven. While she is shut up in Newgate prison awaiting execution, her sentence is commuted to transportation to an Australian penal colony. So Mary sets sail aboard a prison ship to the other side of the world. Australia brings the promise of a new life, but it is also harsh and wild. Does Mary have what it takes to survive in this land of danger and opportunity?
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