Personal and Social Capability Archives

The Truck Cat

The Truck Cat is a story about cats and humans, immigration and identity, and homes lost and found. …

Year: Foundation, Primary, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 Author: Deborah Frenkel Illustrator: Danny Snell Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing Published year: 2024

Be Careful, Xiao Xin!

From best-selling author Alice Pung and renowned illustrator Sher Rill Ng comes an extraordinarily …

Year: Foundation, Primary Author: Alice Pung Illustrator: Sher Rill Ng Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia Published year: 2022

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Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean

A ground-breaking intercontinental collection of speculative stories, in both prose and graphic …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Kirsty Murray, Payal Dhar, Anita Roy Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2015

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Two Wolves

Get ready for a wild adventure filled with moral dilemmas and tough choices; Tristan Bancks' Two …

Year: Secondary, Year 7 Author: Tristan Bancks Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 2014

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The Year the Maps Changed

One extraordinary year will change them all... Sorrento, Victoria, 1999. Fred's family is a mess…

Year: Secondary, Year 7 Author: Danielle Binks Publisher: Hachette Australia Published year: 2020

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Growing Up in Country Australia

Black Inc.’s bestselling Growing Up series goes to the country – Rick Morton Growing Up in…

Year: Secondary, Year 9 Author: Rick Morton Publisher: Black Inc. Published year: 2022

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Aster’s Good, Right Things

Aster attends a school for gifted kids, but she doesn’t think she’s special at all. If she …

Year: Primary, Year 5 Author: Kate Gordon Publisher: Riveted Press Published year: 2020

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Songbird

Jamila has left her friends, her school and her home in Iraq, and now she has a new home. It’s …

Year: Primary, Year 6 Author: Ingrid Laguna Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2019

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This Is Home: Essential Australian Poems for Children

In This Is Home, much-loved author Jackie French has gathered a poem for every child and every mood…

Year: Primary, Year 4 Author: Jackie French Illustrator: Tania McCartney Publisher: National Library of Australia Published year: 2019

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Bear and Rat

A powerful and uplifting story about loving friendship, even through the hardest of times. Bear …

Year: Primary, Year 3 Author: Christopher Cheng Illustrator: Stephen Michael King Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 2021

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