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Booklists: Year 8 Booklist

Adventure

400 Minutes of Danger by Jack Heath
Call Number: SHORT STORIES HEATH
Alex Rider SERIES by Anthony Horowitz
Call Number: ADVENTURE HOROWITZ
Countdown to Danger SERIES by Jack Heath
Call Number: ADVENTURE HEATH
The Debt SERIES by Phillip Gwynne
Call Number: ADVENTURE Gwynne
Code Red SERIES by Chris Ryan
Call Number: ADVENTURE RYAN

Suspense

The Fall by Tristan Bancks
Call Number: SUSPENSE BANCKS
Theodore Boone SERIES by John Grisham
Call Number: SUSPENSE GRISHAM
Disappearing Act by James Moloney
Call Number: SUSPENSE MOLONEY

Classics

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Call Number: CLASSICS DICKENS
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Call Number: CLASSICS STEVENSON
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Call Number: CLASSICS MELVILLE

Fantasy

House of Secrets SERIES by Chris Columbus & Ned Vizzini
Call Number: FANTASY COLUMBUS
Brotherband SERIES by John Flanagan
Call Number: FANTASY FLANAGAN
Heroes of Olympus SERIES by Rick Riordan
Call Number: FANTASY RIORDAN
Vega Jane SERIES by David Baldacci
Call Number: FANTASY BALDACCI
Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds by Gwenda Bond
Call Number: FANTASY BOND

Horror

Death & Co. SERIES by D.J. McCune
Call Number: HORROR MCCUNE
Magisterium SERIES by Holly Black; Cassandra Clare
Call Number: HORROR BLACK
Mutant City SERIES by Steve Feasey
Call Number: HORROR FEASEY

School Stories

The Invisible Hero by Elizabeth Fensham
Call Number: GENERAL FENSHAM
Other Brother by Simon French
Call Number: GENERAL FRENCH
Lennie by James Roy
Call Number: FUN STUFF ROY
Diary of a Wimpy Kid SERIES by Jeff Kinney
Call Number: FUN STUFF KINNEY

Australian

A Song Only I Can Hear by Barry Jonsberg
Call Number: GENERAL JONSBERG
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
Call Number: GENERAL SILVEY
Exploding Endings: Dingbats & Lollypop Arms by Tim Harris
Call Number: SHORT STORIES HARRIS

Coming of Age

Lenny's Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee
Call Number: GENERAL FOXLEE

Humour

A Series of Unfortunate Events SERIES by Lemony Snicket
Call Number: FUN STUFF SNICKET
Grandpa's Great Escape by David Walliams
Call Number: FUN STUFF WALLIAMS
WeirDo SERIES by Anh Do
Call Number: FUN STUFF DO

Sport Stories

World Domination by Patrick Loughlin & Glenn Maxwell
Call Number: GENERAL LOUGHLIN
Specky Magee SERIES by Felice Arena & Garry Lyon
Call Number: GENERAL ARENA
Goal! by Robert Rigby
Call Number: GENERAL RIGBY

Indigenous Stories

Deadly D & Justice Jones SERIES by Scott Prince & Dave Hartley
Call Number: INDIGENOUS PRINCE
Nanberry Black Brother White by Jackie French
Call Number: INDIGENOUS/ GENERAL FRENCH
Seahorse by Bruce Pascoe
Call Number: ADVENTURE PASCOE

Biography

Lion: A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
Call Number: 306.874 BRI
I am Malala by Christina Lamb
Call Number: BIO YOUSAFZAI
Stories for Boys who Dare to be Different by Ben Brooks
Call Number: FUN STUFF BROOKS
Songs of a War Boy (YA edition) by Deng Thiak Adut & Ben McKelvey
Call Number: BIO ADUT

Historical Fiction

Roman Invasion by Jim Eldridge
Call Number: HISTORICAL ELDRIDGE
Cloud and Wallfish by Anne Nesbet
Call Number: GENERAL NESBET
The Great Plague by Pamela Oldfield
Call Number: HISTORICAL OLDFIELD
Pompeii by Sue Reid
Call Number: HISTORICAL REID

Poetry & Verse Novels

Booked by Kwame Alexander
Call Number: GENERAL ALEXANDER
We Come Apart by Sarah Crossan; Brian Conaghan
Call Number: GENERAL CROSSAN
By the River by Steven Herrick
Call Number: 811.9 HER