What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

I read part of the series when i was in high school (2000-2005). I only remember it vaugely but what i do was that it started with them being shipped over to Australia, a family i believe or just the girls and their mother, not sure. The first books cover had a young woman on it standing with her raid hair blowing in the wind i believe. There were quite a few of them in the series.

Could it have been America by any chance? For example, Annie Moore, First in Line for America by Eithne Loughrey or Lord Kirkle's Money by Avi?

Nope, they were definetly shipped to Australia.

If they were being "shipped" then, unless it was set in a pre-Revolution time frame, it couldn't have been in America. (Georgia was used like Australia, before we broke from England.)

Do you remember about when they were shipped there? Was it Regency? Georgian? Early Victorian? Mid Victorian? Late Victorian? That was about when they stopped shipping prisoners, I believe.

Just a guess - The Wake of the Lorelei Lee: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, on Her Way to Botany Bay by L.A. Meyer?

It took place when they first strated shipping them over. Then progressed as the series did. Im pretty sure the first book focused on a main female character.

maybe this book/series - Transported: The Diary of Elizabeth Harvey, Australia, 1790 0 looks like each book is written by a different author

Robyn Lee Burrows seems to have a few YA books set in Australia in different time periods

Its a Fiction book. But I checked the ones you posted and it wasnt any of them, but thank you.

Was the girl called Abby Lynn? http://www.goodreads.com/series/67795...

Not sure if the Abby Lynn books are available in English. Here's a translation of Carolin's link using Translate.Google.com:
"England 1804: Abby Lynn is just fourteen years old when she is involved on a cold February morning in the streets of London in a pickpocketing. Allegedly transferred the complicity, she disappears behind the walls of the infamous prison of Newgate. Only the certainty of their own innocence and the hope of an acquittal they let the agonizing weeks of detention endure. But the judgment is handed down in a flash process is "exile": seven years convict labor in the new colony Australia."

I'm not sure this was a YA series, but it sounds so similar to what you're looking for, I thought I'd post. The main character's name is Ginny, and she's fifteen when she's exiled to Australia in 1788. This is the first book in the series.

The Exiles

Could it have been Bridie's Fire?

Its netiher of those, but youve given me a good list that i should read!!! So thank you! Im trying to remember more about the books. Once I do I'll post more descriptions. It hink it was YA but im not 100%, I assumed it was because i checked it out of the library when i was in high school. It may be an adult book.

Voyage of the Exiles

Maybe this series?

Rebecca you may have cracked it! Im buying that book now and im going to see if thats it. Thank you all for your help. Hopefully this is it!

Please come back and let us know. :)

Once I know for sure I will!

Rosalinda, was "Voyage of the Exiles" your series?

This isn't young adult, but there is the Australians series by William Stuart Long. The first book, The Exiles, has a red haired woman on the cover, but not blowing in the wind.

Lobster Girl! you did it!!!!! that's what it was! Voyage of the exiles! thank you!

So happy its been solved. how do I move to solved folder?

Rosalinda wrote: "So happy its been solved. how do I move to solved folder?"

There is a tiny "edit" link under the title you typed (there is one under the description too, but that isn't it).

Rosalinda wrote: "Lobster Girl! you did it!!!!! that's what it was! Voyage of the exiles! thank you!"

That wasn't me, it was Rebecca way back.

Well thanks to everyone, it was the series. I'm so happy to get back into this series.