Books

No Sugar

Commissioned for the 1985 Perth Festival, this is the spirited story of the Millimurra family’s …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Jack Davis Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1985

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Nine Parts of Desire

‘Frank, enraging and captivating.' The New Yorker Australian writer Geraldine Brooks is now known …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Geraldine Brooks Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 2008

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New Year Surprise!

Little Brother is told by his brother and his friends that he's too small to help out at the Spring …

Year: Primary, Year 1 Author: Christopher Cheng Illustrator: Di Wu Publisher: National Library of Australia Published year: 2016

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New and Selected Poems

Gig Ryan’s poems have exerted an influence over two generations of writers and readers since the …

Year: Tertiary Author: Gig Ryan Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Published year: 2011

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Ned Kelly and the Green Sash

A narrative non-fiction picture book about the life of Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang, Australia’s …

Year: Primary, Year 5 Author: Mark Greenwood Illustrator: Frane Lessac Publisher: Walker Books Australia Published year: 2010

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The Natural Way of Things

Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Charlotte Wood Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2015

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North

A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Richard Flanagan Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 2014

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The Naming of Tishkin Silk

A heart-warming, tender junior novel about family, love, loss and home by the author of the …

Author: Glenda Millard Illustrator: Caroline Magerl Publisher: ABC Books, HarperCollins Publishers Australia Published year: 2003

My Two Blankets

Cartwheel has moved to a place that is so strange to her, she no longer feels like herself. This …

Year: Primary, Year 2 Author: Irena Kobald Illustrator: Freya Blackwood Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing, Little Hare Published year: 2014

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My Place (Sally Morgan)

In 1982, Sally Morgan travelled back to her grandmother’s birthplace. What started as a tentative …

Author: Sally Morgan Publisher: Fremantle Press Published year: 1987