Elizabeth Harvey is a young London girl sent to Australia as a convict.
The story is told through diary entries and is very accurate. Lizzie at the time of being starving and overworked ends up working for a Surgeon and his family, Lizzie cares for young Emily and is on edge around Soldier Winston.

The book is pretty easy to read, however, there wasn't a true climax in this book in my opinion.
Also, my copy of this book seems to not exist on Goodreads so I am reviewing it on this since mine does not say Transported. Mine says Surviving Sydney Cove.


The book will make you realize how lucky you are, these people were suffering from sickness and starvation, lacking education and so much more. Reading this historical fiction novel talking about that time period caused me to reflect upon what we've gained in 2o21.

You are pulled into that world and after finishing, you look around you and go, "Wow" ( )

Not as good as I'd hoped, but then i'm not the intended audience. I guess it kept my interest for some of it but was glad to be done when it was over. Need more good books set at this time. ( )

Not as good as I'd hoped, but then i'm not the intended audience. I guess it kept my interest for some of it but was glad to be done when it was over. Need more good books set at this time. ( )

This entire series is a wonderful way to learn history or teach it to adolescents. I find today's generations seem to recall more when they learn through other people (pop songs, celebrity gossip, etc.), so what better way to teach history than through someone else's perspective? Yes, "authentic" diaries would be "better", but would the language really hold the modern student's attention? Did the diary writer know what WOULD be important in the context of history? Probably not.

This book is one of the books in the My Australian Story series, which is an Australian version of Dear America, featuring the fictional diaries of young people during different events in Australian history.

The year is 1790, in colonial Sydney, Australia. Elizabeth Harvey, or Lizzie as she is called, is a young girl sent to Sydney Cove as a convict. Wrongly convicted of stealing from her employee, Lizzie was forced to leave behind her beloved brother in England and was transported to Sydney, where she lives in servitude. Life is very difficult in the colony, and food is scarce. Will Lizzie survive to ever see her brother and home again?

Written in the form of Lizzie's diary, this book brought to life the early days of colonial Australia through the eyes of young convict girl. The book describes the injustices faced by the lower class in early England and the hardships of settling a new a land. I recommend this book to young readers who enjoy historical fiction written in diary form and who enjoyed other books in the My Story series. ( )