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The Lost Thing

Essay by Gary Crew Written and illustrated by Shaun Tan, The Lost Thing (2000) prompts readers to …

Year: Secondary, Year 7, Year 8 Book Author: Shaun Tan Publisher: Hachette Australia Published year: 2000

The Divine Wind

Essay by Alice Pung A generation living in peacetime is inclined to devalue the identity and place …

Year: Secondary, Year 9 Book Author: Garry Disher Publisher: Hachette Australia Published year: 1999

Just Macbeth!

Essay by Mark Isaacs Just Macbeth! is Shakespeare like I’ve never read him before. It’s …

Year: Secondary, Year 7 Book Author: Andy Griffiths Illustrator: Terry Denton Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia Published year: 2009

Vampyre

By Dmetri Kakmi Published in 2011, Margaret Wild’s picture book Vampyre is a hallucinatory …

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

The Natural Way of Things

Essay by Anne Summers It is almost impossible to believe: ten young women, all of them aged under…

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

Evil Genius

Essay by Beth Driscoll Evil Genius is set in real-world Sydney, but it is driven by a compelling …

Year: Secondary, Year 8 Book Author: Catherine Jinks Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2005

Don’t Call Me Ishmael

Essay by Miriam Cosic It's not easy having a weird name, as many teenagers with foreign or …

Year: Secondary, Year 8 Book Author: Michael Gerard Bauer Publisher: Scholastic Australia Published year: 2006

Zac and Mia

Essay by Agnes Nieuwenhuizen In the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s there was a flurry of what were …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Book Author: A.J. Betts Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2013

The Messenger

Essay by Felicity Castagna The underlying theme in Marcus Zusak’s novels is ordinariness. Whether…

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Book Author: Markus Zusak Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia Published year: 2002

The White Earth

Essay by Rebecca Starford Fire is an element deeply embedded in the Australian consciousness. In …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Book Author: Andrew McGahan Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2005