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Violet Mackerel’s Brilliant Plot

Violet Mackerel thinks she would quite like to own the blue china bird at the Saturday markets. …

Author: Anna Branford Illustrator: Sarah Davis Publisher: Walker Books Published year: 2010

Luke and Anna, thirty-something and restless, decide on a sea change. Worn down by city life and …

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Amanda Lohrey Publisher: Black Inc. Publishing Published year: 2009

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Velocity tells the moving, painful but often hilarious story of Mandy Sayer's childhood and …

Author: Mandy Sayer Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2005

Following some food, a curious young sparrow stows away in the back of a truck and takes an unusual …

Author: Bob Graham Publisher: Candlewick Press, Walker Books Published year: 2014

I am Vampyre. Feared. Despised. I live in darkness. I long for light. From the dark depths of his …

Year: Secondary, Year 7 Author: Margaret Wild Illustrator: Andrew Yeo Publisher: Walker Books Published year: 2011

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Central Australia, 1960s ... Ruby lives on a cattle station and goes to the ‘silver bullet' school…

Year: Secondary, Year 8 Author: Lisa Wilyuka, David Spillman Publisher: Magabala Books Published year: 2006

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Urban Myths: 210 Poems brings together the new and uncollected poems from John Tranter, considered …

Author: John Tranter Publisher: UQP Published year: 2006

'I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but …

Author: Clive James Publisher: Pan Macmillan Published year: 1981

This story does not begin on a boat. Nor does it contain any wild swans or falling leaves. In a …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Alice Pung Publisher: Black Inc. Publishing Published year: 2006

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Set in the 1940s when the pearling town of Broome is recovering from World War II, The Legend of the…

Year: Secondary, Year 7 Author: Brenton E. McKenna Publisher: Magabala Books Published year: 2011

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