TY - BOOK AU - Wilding,Valerie TI - No way back T2 - My story SN - 9781407117843 (pbk.) U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Scholastic KW - Penal transportation KW - Australia KW - History KW - 1788-1851 KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Convicts KW - Great Britain KW - George III, 1760-1820 KW - Biographical fiction KW - gsafd N1 - "The journey of a convict 1789"--Cover N2 - Join Mary Wade on a long and perilous journey that begins in the slums of eighteenth century London. Aged thirteen, Mary is imprisoned in Newgate prison awaiting sentence of death for a petty theft. When her sentence is commuted to transportation she sets sail onboard a prison ship to the other side of the world. Australia brings the promise of a new life, but does Mary have what it takes to make it in the land of opportunity? ER -