White Crane
Newtown
:
Walker Books Australia
,
2008
Z1473027
2008
single work
children's fiction
children's
historical fiction
(taught in 1 units)
'Niya Moto is the only one-legged Samurai kid in Japan, famous for falling flat on his face in the dirt. None of the samurai schools will teach crippled Niya, until an offer arrives from the legendary samurai warrior Ki-Yaga, sensei of the Cockroach Ryu. Together with the other Cockroaches, Niya must defeat the fierce Dragons Ryu at the Samurai Trainee Games.' (From the publisher's website.)
Taronga
Ringwood
:
Viking Kestrel
,
1986
Z864196
1986
single work
novel
science fiction
young adult
(taught in 1 units)
'A bleak but compelling look at the future beyond the nuclear holocaust. Ben comes upon Taronga Zoo, which seems unaffected by the general chaos. But is it?' Source: publisher's website.
The Truth About Emma
Sydney
:
Hachette Livre Australia
,
2007
Z1426630
2007
single work
novel
young adult
(taught in 1 units)
Unreal! : Eight Surprising Stories
Ringwood
:
Penguin
,
1985
Z668486
1985
selected work
children's fiction
children's
humour
(taught in 3 units)
Sleeping Dogs
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1995
Z238800
1995
single work
novel
young adult
(taught in 8 units)
The misanthropic, sadistic father of five children, ages 12 to 25, Griffin Willow runs a trailer park on his dilapidated farm in rural Australia. Isolated from all outside influences, even the neighboring small town, the Willow family has created its own oppressive, sheltered, and decaying world. Despite abuse from their father and a silent, withdrawn mother, all five children live at home and help run the trailer park. Twenty-three-year-old Michelle and her younger brother Jordan have found solace in an incestuous relationship, which they carefully conceal from their parents. When Bow Fox, an itinerant artist, comes to stay at the park, their 15-year-old brother, Oliver, accidently reveals their secret. So begins an agonizing, irreversible progression of violence and betrayal. (Source: Trove)
The Book Thief
Sydney
:
Picador
,
2005
Z1214315
2005
single work
novel
historical fiction
(taught in 8 units)
'It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger and her younger brother are being taken by their mother to live with a foster family outside Munich. Liesel's father was taken away on the breath of a single, unfamiliar word - Kommunist - and Liesel sees the fear of a similar fate in her mother's eyes. On the journey, Death visits the young boy, and notices Liesel. It will be the first of many near encounters. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jewish fist-fighter in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.'
[Source: Libraries Australia. Sighted 30/10/08]
