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migrant experience

The Truck Cat

The Truck Cat is a story about cats and humans, immigration and identity, and homes lost and found. …

Year: Foundation, Primary, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 Author: Deborah Frenkel Illustrator: Danny Snell Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing Published year: 2024

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Be Careful, Xiao Xin!

From best-selling author Alice Pung and renowned illustrator Sher Rill Ng comes an extraordinarily …

Year: Foundation, Primary Author: Alice Pung Illustrator: Sher Rill Ng Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia Published year: 2022

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The Coconut Children

From the winner of the SMH/Age Best Young Novelist of the Year and the Matt Richell Award for New …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Vivian Pham Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 2021

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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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Single Asian Female

The Golden Phoenix, a restaurant on the Sunshine Coast. The last customers have left for the night, …

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Michelle Law Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 2018

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Waves

Waves is a narrative nonfiction book about the waves of migration to the shores of Australia…

Year: Primary, Year 4 Author: Donna Rawlins Illustrator: Mark Jackson, Heather Potter Publisher: Walker Books Australia Published year: 2018

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The Garret: The Bone Sparrow

Zana Fraillon's The Bone Sparrow is an exceptional book for young adult readers, and this …

Year: Secondary, Year 8 Author: Zana Fraillon Publisher: The Garret Published year: 2020

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The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling

This compelling young adult novel about growing up in a migrant Asian family with a mother who is …

Year: Secondary, Year 9 Author: Wai Chim Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2019

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The Garret: Maxine Beneba Clarke

Reading Australia presents this Maxine Beneba Clarke podcast, with permission from The Garret …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Maxine Beneba Clarke Publisher: The Garret Published year: 2019

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The Garret: Alex Miller

Reading Australia presents this Alex Miller podcast, with permission from The Garret Podcast…

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Alex Miller Publisher: The Garret Published year: 2018

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