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The second book in the 11 Ruby Road series set in the roaring 1920s Ñ perfect period fiction for middle-grade readers and for fans of the Our Australian Girl series.
It is 1925 and Bert Mueller and his German-Australian family have moved from Ipswich to their new house at 11 Ruby Road. BertÕs father has been deported to Germany after the Great War, and with Dad still absent, Bert is unsure about moving away. But the city means opportunity and jobs for his mother and older siblings. And for the grown-ups, it also means fun - dressing up, going out, and all that jazz. Bert loves jazz too, but heÕs too young for the clubs, and instead his time is spent at his new school where the kids play cricket, not music.
But with the help of a Gramophone, Bert has a solution. He will start his own jazz club, and 11 Ruby Road has the perfect spot to host it. But as prejudice about Bert and his German family start to affect their new life, Bert has to find a way to save his jazz club and his family.
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jazz music, family, friendship, discrimination, war, grief, baking, resilience, cultural identity, prejudice, community, entrepreneurship, post-war, cultural integration
11-year-old Bert Muller wants to start a jazz club at his new home on 11 Ruby Road. But all the kids at his school are into cricket - and they don't like Australian-Germans. After all, it's only 1925, and the Great War has been burned into everyone's memories. How can Bert overcome the discrimination? He and his family find a way to build friendships in their community by showing the Australians around them the true heart of their Germanic family and by introducing them to some fun and sweet German traditions. This sweet historical story is brimming with interest, from depictions of Brisbane in the 1920s to jazz and fun community scenes centred around cake.
