Victoria Street is a crossroads, like in those old stories of bushrangers and highwaymen.
It's a place where everyone and everything crosses paths...
A street right out of a fairytale, I reckon.
It's 1973, and 11-year-old Billie is living in the best street in the whole world: Victoria Street in Darlinghurst, Sydney. Billie can't imagine being anywhere else.
But things are changing. Billie's neighbours are being forced out of their homes, and scary people are patrolling the street, trying to get everyone to leave.
Without realising it, Billie, her family and her neighbours find themselves caught up in one of the most important public protests in Sydney's history.
The battle for Victoria Street is their fight to save their homes and their way of life from destruction.
Australian Historical, Green Bans, Social Justive, Sydney, Children's Books, Middle Grade
About The Author
Gabiann Marin is an award-winning children's author with over 12 professionally published fiction and non-fiction books.
She has won or been shortlisted for several Australian and international writing prizes: including winner International White Raven Award for Writing of Importance 2005 and the AToM Best Interactive Narrative Award 2017 for Kids Together Now.
Her children’s books are regularly featured on the Australian Premier reading challenge.
Her latest historical children's novel, The Battle for Victoria Street, was released in 2024 by Scholastic/ Omnibus as part of its award winning My Australian Story series.
