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Follow Marly on her adventure in the second of four stories about a daring girl torn between two worlds. It's 1983 . . . and Marly needs a job. She wants to buy Donkey Kong cards to swap with the other kids at school, but her parents think the cards are a waste of money. Then Marly's friend Yousra gives her an idea, and she decides to start her own business. But working on your own isn't easy, and when she catches a bus that goes in the wrong direction, it's just the start of Marly's problems! Follow Marly on her adventure in the second of four stories about a daring girl torn between two worlds.

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Alice Pung (Author) Alice Pung is an award-winning, internationally published Melbourne writer whose books include the memoirs Unpolished Gem and Her Father's Daughter and the young adult novel Laurinda. Alice contributed four stories, 'Meet Marly', for the children's series Our Australian Girl. She is the editor of the anthology Growing Up Asian in Australia and My First Lesson. Her collected nonfiction is published in the volume Close to Home and she has written a book on John Marsden in the 'Writers on Writers' series. Alice is a frequent visiting author to primary and secondary schools around Australia, and an ambassador to the 100 Story Building. Lucia Masciullo (Illustrator) Lucia Masciullo grew up in Livorno, Tuscany. She moved to Australia in 2007 and since then she has been happily working as an illustrator. She has illustrated more than 30 books, among which are the CBCA Honour Book and Prime Minister Award short-listed Come Down, Cat! by Sonya Hartnett, as well as the Our Australian Girl series, Meet Katie at the Beach by Rebecca Johnson in the Aussie Kids series, and An A to Z of Dreaming Differently by Tracey Dembo. She now lives on the Gold Coast.

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