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  • A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen's Land
    Themes:Australian history, illustrated
    Reading age:10+
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    Australian
  • A Winter's Promise
    Themes:Fantasy romance, strong heroine, epic fantasy
    Reading age:13+
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  • Zac & Mia
    Themes:friendship, cancer, survival, identity
    Reading age:14+
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    Australian
  • When You Reach Me
    Themes:friendship, time travel, conscience
    Reading age:10+
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  • The True Story of Spit MacPhee
    Themes:historical, friendship, identity, being true to yourself
    Reading age:10+
    Australian
  • The Sugarcane Kids and the Red-bottomed Boat
    Reading age:8+
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    Australian
  • Lizard's Tale
  • The House that Was Eureka
    Themes:unemployment, Australian history, rights, identity
    Reading age:12+
    Australian
  • Alex As Well
    Themes:identity, LGBTQI, family, friendship, coming-of-age
    Reading age:15+
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    Australian
  • I'm Not Scared
    Themes:fear, family secrets, mystery
    Reading age:15+
  • How to Be Happy
    Themes:depression, friendship, sexual identity, suicide, academic pressure, love, adolescent confusion
    Reading age:14+
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    Australian
  • Zero Hour
    Themes:World War I, Anzacs on the Western Front
    Reading age:12+
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    Australian
  • Dancing Barefoot
    Reading age:14+
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    Australian
  • Malcolm and Juliet
    Themes:sex, science, friendship
    Reading age:13+
  • All I Ever Wanted
    Themes:identity, friendship, family, class
    Reading age:14+
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    Australian
  • Wilder Country
    Themes:Dystopian, Coming of Age, Refugees, Australia, Dystopia, self esteem & reliance
    Reading age:14+
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    Australian
  • The Secret River
    Themes:settlement, land rights, identity
    Reading age:15 +
    Australian
  • To the Wild Sky
    Themes:adventure, friendship, survival
    Reading age:13+
    Australian
  • Max
    Themes:holocaust, moral choices, good and evil, friendship, Identity
    Reading age:14+
  • The End of the World Is Bigger than Love
    Reading age:16+
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    Australian
  • The War that Saved My Life
    Themes:adventure, family, identity, disability, friendship, history, WWII
    Reading age:10+
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  • Fire in the Sea
    Themes:adventure, horror, fantasy, friendship
    Reading age:14+
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    Australian
  • Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    Themes:homosexuality, friendship, depression
    Reading age:14+
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  • Genesis
    Themes:the future, artificial intelligence, human identity, philosophy
    Reading age:14+
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  • The Minnow
    Themes:grief, pregnancy, identity, friendship, coming-of-age
    Reading age:14+
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    Australian
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    Dig

    Dig

    A.S. King
    The Peacock Detectives

    The Peacock Detectives

    Carly Nugent
    Themes:Friendship, understanding adults, self-confidence, independence
    Reading age:9+
    Australian
    The Missing of Clairdelune

    The Missing of Clairdelune

    Christelle Dabos
    Reading age:13+
    A Winter's Promise

    A Winter’s Promise

    Christelle Dabos
    Themes:Fantasy romance, strong heroine, epic fantasy
    Reading age:13+
    The War that Saved My Life

    The War that Saved My Life

    Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
    Themes:adventure, family, identity, disability, friendship, history, WWII
    Reading age:10+
    Beautiful Mess

    Beautiful Mess

    Claire Christian
    Themes:Mental Health, Teen sexuality, LGBTQIA, Suicide, Romance, Friendship
    Reading age:14+
    Australian