penal colonies

"Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay have received threatening messages demanding they return home. They have a sneaking suspicion that their villainous parents are behind the messages, and something Evie sees in her Magic Mirror confirms their fears. Although Maleficent's just a tiny lizard after her confrontation with Mal, could she have found a way to escape? Mal and her friends determine to sneak back to the Isle to get to the bottom of the mystery"--OCLC.

An anecdotal portrayal of life for the youngest convicts who populated the Australian colonies more than two centuries ago describes how English children were once tried as adults for petty crimes and banished to isolated and dangerous colonies.

Draws from court documents, letters, and journals to tell the story of the 237 women convicts, most petty criminals, who sailed from England to Sydney Cove in Australia's New South Wales in July 1789 to provide the colony's men with sexual favors and children, focusing on the relationship between convict Sarah Whitelam and the ship's steward John Nicol.

This is a novel about the pioneers of New South Wales. It is the "story of those who wrested a new life from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people."--inside book jacket.

An account of the convict settlements in Australia based upon letters, diaries, and documents from the first landing in Botany Bay in 1788 to the last shipload of convicts in 1868.

A humorous account of how a British thief would have been punished in the eighteenth century by being sent to Australia in 1785.

Mary Bryant, among the first of a wave of convicts to be transported to Australia in the late eighteenth-century, stages a daring escape in an open boat from the brutal conditions of the Botany Bay penal colony, along with her husband and two children, and seven other convicts.

In 2075, exiles living on Earth's penal colony on the moon use a master computer to start a revolution.

Draws on personal journals and historical documents to recount the overseas voyage of Royal Army Captain Arthur Phillip's first expedition to Australia, where he was charged with setting up a penal colony for London prisoners.