Mazin Grace (Electronic book text)

With the powerful, rhythmic sounds of Aboriginal English and Kokatha language woven through the narrative, "Mazin Grace" is the inspirational story of a feisty girl who refuses to be told who she is, determined to uncover the truth for herself. Growing up on the Mission isn t easy for clever Grace Oldman. When her classmates tease her for not having a father, she doesn t know what to say. Pappa Neddy says her dad is the Lord God in Heaven, but that doesn t help when the Mission kids call her a bastard. As Grace slowly pieces together clues that might lead to answers, she struggles to find a place in a community that rejects her for reasons she doesn t understand. In this novel, author Dylan Coleman fictionalizes her mother s childhood at the Koonibba Lutheran Mission in South Australia in the 1940s and 1950s."