Critical and Creative Thinking

True History of the Kelly Gang

True History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Carey's stunning, Booker Prize-winning novel about Australia…

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Peter Carey Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 2001

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Truth

At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Peter Temple Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2010

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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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Ubby’s Underdogs: Heroes Beginnings

It's the late 1940s and Broome, a small pearling town in the heart of an ancient land, is still …

Year: Secondary, Year 7 Author: Brenton E. McKenna Publisher: Magabala Books Published year: 2013

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Ubby’s Underdogs: the Legend of the Phoenix Dragon

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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Unpolished Gem

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. Published year: 2006

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Us Mob Walawurru

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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Vampyre

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 Australia Published year: 2011

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Vertigo

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. Published year: 2009

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Way Home

Dedicated to the largely unsung, mostly unseen workers for young people in need, this evocative …

Year: Primary, Year 6 Author: Libby Hathorn Illustrator: Gregory Rogers Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1995

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