The Our Australian Girl series consists of 11 mini-series, each with four books, that all focus on a young Australian girl living in the past. The eleven girls are, in order of when their series takes place:
- Grace, 1808
- Letty, 1841
- Nellie, 1849/50
- Poppy, 1864
- Rose, 1900
- Alice, 1918/19
- Daisy, 1930
- Ruby, 1931
- Pearlie, 1941/42
- Lina, 1956
- Marly, 1983
The main audience for these books are pre-teen girls, with the majority of the characters being 11-14 years old. Serious themes such as racism, xenophobia, classism, sexism are combined with topics such as friendship and family.
- Cool Big Sis: Letty thinks the stars shine out of her elder sister Lavinia's eyes. Lavinia immigrates in her late teens, helps her step-mother give birth, gets herself a job in a foreign country even after the people she was supposed to work for reject her and manages to open her own shop within just over a year of arriving, and ensnares the baker.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: Even some of Rose's nicer, more modern-thinking family members believe that she needs to stop being so boyish and rowdy.
- Fiery Redhead: Nellie is red-haired, Irish, and not above blaspheming, arguing with her employer's children or having a go at people. Significant as this is basically the opposite of what everyone wants her to be.
- Funetik Aksent: Abner in Letty's books.
- Historical Fiction: all the books, except for Lina's and Marly's, as a significant amount of the population lived through these years or had parents who did.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Nobody calls Nellie 'Ellen', or Letty 'Letitia'.
- Orphanage of Fear: The way Nellie and Mary talk about their Workhouse, it certainly sounds like one, with strict rules, terrible food and the majority of staff being English and hating the Irish orphans for, well...being Irish.
