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Radiance

Three half-sisters who have drifted far apart meet again at the ramshackle house on stilts where …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Louis Nowra Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1993

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Paperboy

A story about bouncing forward when faced with adversity, and about making creative choices in the …

Year: Primary, Year 4 Author: Danny Parker Illustrator: Bethany Macdonald Publisher: Dirt Lane Press Published year: 2020

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Janette Turner Hospital Collected Stories

OUT OF PRINT This collection brings together in one distinguished volume a range of stories written…

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Janette Turner Hospital Publisher: UQP Published year: 1995

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It’s Raining in Mango

Wresting his family from the easy living of nineteenth–century Sydney, Cornelius Laffey takes them…

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Thea Astley Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1989

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Inside My Mother

In her memoir Too Afraid to Cry, published in 2013, Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann related how …

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Ali Cobby Eckermann Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Published year: 2015

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Gwen Harwood: Collected Poems

OUT OF PRINT This generous-sized collection contains all six published volumes, as well as most …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Gwen Harwood, Alison Hoddinott, Gregory Kratzmann Publisher: UQP Published year: 2003

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Five Bells

On a radiant day in Sydney, four people converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Gail Jones Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 2011

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Cafe Scheherazade

"In Acland Street, St Kilda, there stands a cafe called Scheherazade." Thus begins Arnold Zable’s …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Arnold Zable Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2001

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Bear and Rat

A powerful and uplifting story about loving friendship, even through the hardest of times. Bear …

Year: Primary, Year 3 Author: Christopher Cheng Illustrator: Stephen Michael King Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 2021

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Alfred’s War

Alfred’s War is a powerful story that unmasks the lack of recognition given to Australian …

Year: Primary, Year 6 Author: Rachel Bin Salleh Illustrator: Samantha Campbell Publisher: Magabala Books Published year: 2018

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