Theme

storytelling

Finding Eliza

Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction by Fiona Foley, Finding …

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Larissa Behrendt Publisher: UQP Published year: 2016

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Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence

A Stolen Generations story of astounding courage: three Aboriginal girls, taken from their mothers, …

Year: Secondary, Year 9 Author: Nugi Garimara (Doris Pilkington) Publisher: UQP Published year: 1996

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Grace Beside Me

A warmly rendered story of life in a small town that interweaves the mundane with the profound and …

Year: Secondary, Year 9 Author: Sue McPherson Publisher: Magabala Books Published year: 2012

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Mrs White and the Red Desert

When a group of desert children invite their school teacher, Mrs White, home for dinner to show her …

Year: Primary, Year 2 Author: Josie Wowolla Boyle Illustrator: Maggie Prewett Publisher: Magabala Books Published year: 2017

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One Little Goat

It starts with one little goat. It ends with one little goat. But what happens in between is a…

Year: Foundation, Primary Author: Ursula Dubosarsky Illustrator: Andrew Joyner Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing Published year: 2017

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Remembering Lionsville

This beautiful book for the whole family tells, in words and pictures, Bronwyn Bancroft's unique and…

Year: Primary, Year 3 Author: Bronwyn Bancroft Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2013

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The Boy from the Mish

A funny and heartwarming queer Indigenous YA novel, set in a rural Australian community, about …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Gary Lonesborough Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2021

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The Garret: Finding Eliza

Larissa Behrendt, a Eualeyai and Kamillaroi woman, is a writer, lawyer and academic. This …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Larissa Behrendt Publisher: The Garret Published year: 2020

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The Garret: John Marsden

John Marsden is an Australian writer and teacher. He has been writing YA literature for three…

Year: Secondary, Year 9 Author: John Marsden Publisher: The Garret Published year: 2016

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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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