Year 12

N O V E L S

The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

Don't Take Your Love to Town by Ruby Langford Ginibi

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

Journey to the Stone Country by Alex Miller That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott

Cloudstreet by Tim Winton No Sugar by Jack Davis

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak The Broken Shore by Peter Temple

Truth by Peter Temple The Chosen by Chaim Potok

My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald

Faith Singer by Rosie Scott Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson

P O E T R Y

The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick Collected Poems (1943 - 1995) by Gwen Harwood

P L A Y F I L M V I D E O G A M E

Tis Pity She’s a Whore by John Ford

Joe Cinque's Consolation The Stanley Parable

Year 11

N O V E L S

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

The White Earth by Andrew McGahan The Harp in the South by Ruth Park

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Final Solution by Michael Chabon

The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Stevenson The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer

A Mother's Disgrace by Robert Dessaix For the Term of his Natural Life by Marcus Clarke

Miss Peabody's Inheritance by Elizabeth Jolley Blackrock by Nick Enright

Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett Romulus, My Father by Raimon Gaita

Stasiland by Anna Funder Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks

Care Scheherazade by Arnold Zable The Children's Bach by Helen Garner

Carry me down by M.J. Hyland Five Bells by Gail Jones

Grace by Robert Drewe Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch

Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton Here on Earth by Tim Flannery

S H O R T S T O R I E S

Collected Stories by Janette Turner Hospital The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

The Drover's Wife- Lawson The Complete Story by David Malouf

P O E T R Y G R A P H I C N O V E L S

Spring Hail by Les Murray The Odyssey by Homer Maus by Art Spiegelman

F I L M & T V

Two & Two by Babak Anvari Sherlock - BBC

Schindler's List by Steven Spielberg Arrival by Denis Villeneuve

The Truman Show by Peter Weir

Year 10

N O V E L S

It's Raining in Mango by Thea Astley Tell Me I'm Here by Anne Deveson

Away by Michael Gow The Jerilderie Letter by Ned Kelly

Death Sentence by Don Watson Zac and Mia by A.J. Betts

Legendary Tales of the Australian Aboriginals by David Unaipon

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler Night by Elie Wiesel

The Boat by Nam Le The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper

The Red Shoe by Ursula Dubosarsky The Messenger by Markus Zusak

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbek The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

P O E T R Y

Cold Skin by Steven Herrick Australia by Ania Walwicz

By the River by Steven Herrick By the River by Steven Herrick

G R A P H I C N O V E L

American born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang This one summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki

P I C T U R E B O O K S

The Red Tree by Shaun Tan The Watertower by Gary Crew

The Rabbits by John Marsden and Shaun Tan The Arrival by Shaun Tan

P L A Y S

Hamlet Romeo and Juliet The 7 Stages of Grieving by Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman

Othello Macbeth The One Day of the Year by Alan Seymour

The comedy of errors Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey; the play adapted by Kate Mulvany

F I L M S & T V

Between the Flags Black Mirror

Pleasantville Hidden Figures

Life is Beautiful The Birds

Spirited Away The Truman Show

Oranges and Sunshine Glory

Moon Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

10 Things I Hate About You The Martian

Year 9

N O V E L S

All I Ever Wanted by Vicki Wakefield Beast by Donna Jo Napoli

Blue Noise by Debra Oswald Chenxi and the Foreigner by Sally Ribbin

Dogs by Bill Condon Fighting Ruban Wolfe by Markus Zusak

Where the Streets had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung The Outsiders by S E Hinton

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness Finding Grace by Alyssa Brugman

Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence by Dorris Pilkington The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

S H O R T S T O R I E S

Growing up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss

Growing up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung

P O E T R Y

Cold Skin by Steven Herrick Jinx by Margaret Wild Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

P L A Y S

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Romeo and Juliet

Macbeth Hamlet

F I L M & D O C U M E N T A R I E S

Be my brother - Genevieve Clay Birthday Boy - Sejong Park

Becoming Jane - Julian Jarrold Donkey - Tribeca Film Festival

Boy - Taiki Waititi Careful He Might Hear You - Carl Schultz

Psycho - Hitchcock The Mask You Live In by The Representation Project

Benny and Joon Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington

Year 8

N O V E L S

The Giver by Lois Lowry Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett

Crocodile Tears by Anthony Horowitz Crow Country by Kate Constable

Inside by My Head by Jim Carrington Japan Diary by Trudy White

I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

The Bone Sparrow, by Zana Fraillon Hitler’s Daughter by Jackie French

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Skellig by David Almond Trash by Andy Mulligan

The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull by Barry Jonsberg

S H O R T S T O R I E S

Bread by Margaret Atwood Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing

Tri by Frances Echin Terror Comes Cheap at the Supermarket by Phillip Adams

Bread by Margaret Atwood

Imagine a piece of bread. You don’t have to imagine it, it’s right here in the kitchen, on the breadboard, in its plastic bag, lying beside the bread knife. The bread knife is an old one you picked up at an auction; it has the word BREAD carved into the wooden handle. You open the bag, pull back the wrapper, cut yourself a slice. You put butter on it, then peanut butter, then honey, and you fold it over. Some of the honey runs out onto your fingers and you lick it off. It takes you about a minute to eat the bread. This bread happens to be brown, but there is also white bread, in the refrigerator, and a heel of rye you got last week, round as a full stomach then, now going moldy. Occasionally you make bread. You think of it as something relaxing to do with your hands.

P I C T U R E B O O K S

Fox by Margaret Wild I am Thomas by Libby Gleeson

Way Home by Libby Hathorn Rose Blanche by Ian McEwan and Roberto Innocenti

Mirror by Jeannie Baker My Mother's Eyes: The Story of a Boy Soldier by Mark Wilson

The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan Into the Forest by Anthony Browne

The Island by Armin Greder The Road to Goonong by David Cox

G R A P H I C N O V E L S

A tale of Two Cities by David Zane Mairowitz Caroline by P. Craig Russell

P O E T R Y

Bird in the Classroom by Colin Thiele Pearl Verses the World by Sally Murphy and Heather Potter

Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost

P L A Y

A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Twelfth Night

F I L M

Donkey - Tribeca Film Festival Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Year 7

N O V E L S

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin

Mahtab's Story by Libby Gleeson Bro by Helen Chebatte

Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine Coraline by Neil Gaiman

The Giver by Lois Lowry Holes by Louis Sachar

Nanberry by Jackie French Refugee by Alan Gratz

Apple and Rain by Sarah Crossan The Honest Truth by Dan Geminhart

The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon The Sky so Heavy by Clare Zorn

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie Trash by Andy Mulligan

S H O R T S T O R I E S

The Bike by Gary Soto One of These Days by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Babycakes by Neil Gaiman Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut

Only Ten by Allen Baillie Sniffex by Paul Jennings

The Wish by Roald Dahl

The Bike by Gary Soto

I pedalled my squeaky bike around the curve onto Sarah Street, but returned immediately. I braked and looked back at where I had gone. My face was hot, my hair sweaty, but nothing scary seemed to happen. The street had looked like our street: parked cars, tall trees, a sprinkler hissing on a lawn, and an old woman bending over her garden. I started again, and again I rode the curve, my eyes open as wide as they could go. After a few circle eights I returned to our street. There ain't no dogs, I told myself. I began to think that maybe this was like one of those false rainbow warnings.

P I C T U R E B O O K S

The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley by Colin Thompson and Amy Lissiat

Mirror by Jeannie Baker

Zoo by Anthony Browne The Rabbits by John Marsden and Shaun Tan

P O E T R Y

This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams

P L A Y S

Shakespeare Can Be Fun: A Midsummer Night's Dream by Lois Burdett

F I L M S

The Grinch (starring Jim Carrey) Presto by Pixar

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