Plagues and Federation

On the rocks in Sydney on the 1st January, 1900, Kitty Barns gets a diary from her teacher, Miss Collins and starts her story. Kitty lives with her family, all nine kids and two parents. The Bubonic Plague has spread to Sydney Town and the Barns family has to go to quarantine after the neighbours got  it. Kitty's older brother Bertie went to fight in the Boer war in South Africa. The Bubonic had spread to some places in Sydney and had to be closed and many people left making it hard for her parents to find work and to feed them all. Because Kitty's house was old and full of rats it had to be pulled down along with many other houses in Sydney but they were all promised that it would be rebuilt. After it rained for a couple of weeks, it washed everything and all the rats went away. Everything had to be rebuilt so Kitty's dad was paid to help. Their house was rebuilt and a few months later they got a federation for Australia.