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The Gathering

When Nathanial and his mother move to the quiet, safe streets of Cheshunt, he immediately senses …

Year: Secondary, Year 9 Author: Isobelle Carmody Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1993

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The Garret: Isobelle Carmody

 Isobelle Carmody is one of Australia's foremost authors of YA fiction and children's literature…

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Isobelle Carmody Publisher: The Garret Published year: 2017

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My Two Blankets

A beautiful tale about friendship and culture, paired with award-winning Freya Blackwood’s …

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

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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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Dancing With Strangers

In January 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women, …

Author: Inga Clendinnen Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2003

As I Grew Older

This book offers a window to the life of an Aboriginal family on the Murray River in the mid-…

Author: Ian Abdulla Publisher: Working Title Press Published year: 1993

Reg Saunders: An Indigenous War Hero

The little-known story of Reg Saunders, the first Indigenous Australian to become an officer in the…

Year: Secondary, Year 7 Author: Hugh Dolan, Adrian Threlfall Publisher: NewSouth Books Published year: 2015

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The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia

The publication of this book in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history …

Author: Henry Reynolds Publisher: UNSW Press Published year: 1981

While the Billy Boils

Fifty-two of Henry Lawson's stories and sketches that he had first published in newspapers and …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Henry Lawson Publisher: SUP Published year: 1896

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The Fortunes of Richard Mahony

'He had never got within measurable distance of what he called life, at all . . . deep down in him, …

Year: Tertiary Author: Henry Handel Richardson Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Text Publishing Published year: 1917