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identity

The Scent of Eucalyptus

Barbara Hanrahan was both a writer and a visual artist, and this magical first novel is an …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Barbara Hanrahan Publisher: UQP Published year: 1973

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The Simple Gift

When the paths of a runaway teenage boy, an old hobo and a rich girl intersect in an abandoned …

Year: Secondary, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Steven Herrick Publisher: UQP Published year: 2000

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The Slap

To smack or not to smack is the question that reverberates through the interconnected lives …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Christos Tsiolkas Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2008

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The Yield

Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has …

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Tara June Winch Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 2019

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Tjarany Roughtail

The mysteries of the Dreamtime with the cultural history of the Kukatja people of the Kimberley …

Year: Primary, Year 6 Author: Gracie Greene, Joe Tramacchi Illustrator: Lucille Gill Publisher: Magabala Books Published year: 1992

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Too Much Lip

Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding two things – her hometown and prison…

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Melissa Lucashenko Publisher: UQP Published year: 2018

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Tracks

'I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Robyn Davidson Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Published year: 1980

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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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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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