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Themes:Grief, Australian fiction, Tasmanian fiction, myth & fable
Australian
Reckoning
Magda Szubanski
Australian
The Lieutenant
Kate Grenville
Australian
Kinglake-350
Adrian Hyland
Australian
The Sugarcane Kids and the Empty Cage
Charlie Archbold
Reading age:8+
Australian
The Best Witch in Paris
Lauren Crozier
Reading age:8+
Australian
Penny Draws a Class Trip
Sara Shepard
Reading age:8+
Liar’s Test
Ambelin Kwaymullina
Reading age:14+
Australian
The Night War
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Reading age:10+
Outlaw Girls
Emily Gale and Nova Weetman
Reading age:10+
Australian
Reading age:13+
Australian
Let’s Never Speak of This Again
Megan Williams
Reading age:14+
Australian
The Lost Library
Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead
Reading age:8+
A Giant’s Trek
Nick Stella
Reading age:10+
Australian
Penny Draws a Secret Adventure
Sara Shepard
Reading age:8+
Penny Draws a School Play
Sara Shepard
Reading age:8+
Penny Draws a Best Friend
Sara Shepard
Reading age:8+
Selfie
Allayne L. Webster
Reading age:12+
Australian
Unnecessary Drama
Nina Kenwood
Reading age:14+
Australian
Dancing Barefoot
Alice Boyle
Reading age:14+
Australian
The Goodbye Year
Emily Gale
Reading age:10+
Australian
The Brink
Holden Sheppard
Reading age:15+
Australian
Sadie Starr’s Guide to Starting Over
Miranda Luby
Reading age:14+
Australian
Answers in the Pages
David Levithan
Reading age:8+
The Museum of Broken Things
Lauren Draper
Reading age:14+
Australian
The Sugarcane Kids and the Red-bottomed Boat
Charlie Archbold
Reading age:8+
Australian
Slipping the Noose
Meg Caddy
Reading age:14+
Australian
All the Little Tricky Things
Karys McEwen
Reading age:8+
Australian
The Best Liars in Riverview
Lin Thompson
Reading age:10+
Reading age:16+
Australian
Fish Out of Water
Kate Hendrick
Reading age:14+
Australian
Growing Up in Flames
Zach Jones
Reading age:14+
Australian
Those Kids from Fawn Creek
Erin Entrada Kelly
Reading age:8+
Dreams From My Father: Adapted for Young Adults
Barack Obama
Reading age:14+
Bailey Finch Takes a Stand
Ingrid Laguna
Reading age:8+
Australian
Reading age:14+
Australian
Reading age:13+
Australian
Reading age:11+
Australian
The Ones We’re Meant to Find
Joan He
Reading age:14+
Elsewhere Girls
Emily Gale and Nova Weetman
Reading age:10+
Australian
Dirt Circus League
Maree Kimberley
Reading age:14+
Australian
Reading age:14+
Australian
The Electric Kingdom
David Arnold
Reading age:16+
The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S.
David Levithan
Reading age:8+
The Tunnel of Dreams
Bernard Beckett
Reading age:8+
Watch Over Me
Nina LaCour
Reading age:14+
Fighting Words
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Reading age:14+
Reading age:8+
Australian
Metal Fish, Falling Snow
Cath Moore
Reading age:14+
Australian
Please Don’t Hug Me
Kay Kerr
Reading age:14+
Australian
Diary of a Young Naturalist
Dara McAnulty
The End of the World Is Bigger than Love
Davina Bell
Reading age:16+
Australian
The List of Things that Will Not Change
Rebecca Stead
Reading age:8+
The Republic of Birds
Jessica Miller
Reading age:9+
Australian
19 Love Songs
David Levithan
Reading age:14+
The Year We Fell from Space
Amy Sarig King
Reading age:8+
This Is How We Change the Ending
Vikki Wakefield
Reading age:14+
Australian
It Sounded Better in My Head
Nina Kenwood
Reading age:14+
Australian
Lizard’s Tale
Weng Wai Chan
Reading age:9+
A Constant Hum
Alice Bishop
Australian
Reading age:8+
Australian
Devil’s Ballast
Meg Caddy
Reading age:14+
Australian
A Winter’s Promise
Christelle Dabos
Themes:Fantasy romance, strong heroine, epic fantasy
Reading age:13+
Themes:dealing with grief, self-acceptance, road trip, family
Reading age:14+
Australian
The Art of Taxidermy
Sharon Kernot
Themes:dealing with death, coping with grief, friendship
Reading age:13+
Australian
Themes:own voices, world literature, multicultural stories, south asian literature
Reading age:9+
The Peacock Detectives
Carly Nugent
Themes:Friendship, understanding adults, self-confidence, independence
Reading age:9+
Australian
The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls
Adam Cece
Themes:friendship, funny stories, self-acceptance, weird stories
Reading age:8+
Australian
Themes:Autism, French teens, American teens, friendship, coming-of-age, Proust
Reading age:14+
Reckoning
Magda Szubanski
Australian
Saving Marty
Paul Griffin
Themes:Friendship, Animal rights, Bravery, Coming-of-Age
Reading age:9+
The War I Finally Won
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Themes:Friendship, Social Skills, Adoption, WWII England, Coming of Age, Dealing with Abuse, Friendship, Family Life, LGBTQIA
Reading age:10+
Wilder Country
Mark Smith
Themes:Dystopian, Coming of Age, Refugees, Australia, Dystopia, self esteem & reliance
Reading age:14+
Australian
