Rabbit-Proof Fence
TRUE STORIES
Doris Pilkington Garimara
Retold by Jennifer Bassett
CEFR B1
Word count 10,600
NO AUDIO AVAILABLE
Fourteen-year-old Molly and her cousins Daisy and Gracie were mixed-race Aborigines. In 1931 they were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good ‘white’ Australians. They were told to forget their mothers, their language, their home.
But Molly would not forget. She and her cousins escaped and walked back to Jigalong, 1,600 kilometres away, following the rabbit-proof fence as their guide across the desert.
This is the true story of that walk, told by Molly’s daughter, Doris. It is also a prize-winning film.
ISBN 9780194791441
