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| The Hidden by Ron Bunney |
YA FIC BUNNEY | Matt and Jess, two young
outcasts in Colonial Austrialia, form a bond.
| Night Train by Judith Clarke |
YA FIC CLARKE |
His family, peers, and teachers despair of eighteen-year-old
Luke, who seems to have turned himself into a loser, failing at school, paralyzed
fear and indecision, losing touch with reality.
| Wolf on the Fold by Judith Clarke |
YA FIC CLARKE |
When his father dies, fourteen-year-old Kenny has to leave
school and find work. Includes flashbacks to previous generations of Kenny's family.
45 + 47 Stella Street and Everything That Happened
| by
Henni Octon (and Elizabeth Honey) | YA
FIC HONEY | The new residents
of Aunt Lillie's home aren't treating it right. It isn't a friendly place anymore.
Henni and her friends set out to prove "the Phonies" are up to no good,
and Henni writes it all down in her journal.
| Mahalia by Joanne Horniman |
YA FIC HORNIMAN |
When his girlfriend leaves him and their five-month-old
baby, seventeen-year-old Matt struggles to a make a life for himself and Mahalia,
the daughter he adores.
| Letters from the Inside by John Marsden |
YA FIC MARSDEN |
The relationship between two teenage girls who become acquainted
through letters intensifies as their correspondence reveals some of the terrible
problems of their lives.
Tomorrow, When the War Began
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by John Marsden | YA FIC
MARSDEN | Seven Australian teenagers
return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been
invaded and they must hide to stay alive.
| Feeling Sorry for Celia by Jaclyn Moriarty |
YA FIC MORIARTY |
Elizabeth's best friend keeps disappearing, her absent
father reappears, and she communicates with her mother entirely through notes
left on the fridge. And now, because of her English teacher's pen pal project,
a Complete and Utter Stranger knows more about Elizabeth than anyone else. But
Elizabeth is on the verge of some major changes, and so much can happen in the
time it takes to write a letter...
The Slightly
True Story of Cedar B. Hartley (who planned to live an unusual life)
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by Martine Murray | YA
FIC MURRAY | When Cedar loses
her dog, it sets off a chain of events leading her to find a new friend, become
an acrobat, and learn some bittersweet truths about family, community, and herself.
| Beyond the Labyrinth by Gillian Rubenstein |
YA FIC RUBENSTEIN |
Fourteen-year-old Brenton questions the choices in his
life when an alien anthropologist arrives to study an ancient Aboriginal tribe
that once lived in the area around his home.
| Reef of Death by Paul Zindel |
YA FIC ZINDEL |
Seventeen-year-old PC McPhee tries to put together the
bizarre details of a deadly mystery: a missing scuba diver, a hidden treasure,
a seemingly deserted ship, a corrupt scientist, a beautiful Aboriginal girl suffering
from amnesia, and a deadly creature prowling the depths of an Australian reef.
Nonfiction
Australia
by Laura Dolce
994 DOLCECulture Shock!
Australia by Ilsa Sharp
390.08 SHARP Australia's
Improbable Animals (videorecording)
594.994 AUSTRALIA'S |
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updated
November 28, 2007 |
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