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Booklists: Year 9 Booklist

Adventure

500 Minutes of Danger by Jack Heath
Call Number: SHORT STORIES HEATH
Agent 21 SERIES by Chris Ryan
Call Number: ADVENTURE RYAN
The Road to Winter by Mark Smith
Call Number: ADVENTURE SMITH
Gone SERIES by Michael Grant
Call Number: ADVENTURE GRANT

Suspense

Young Sherlock SERIES by Andrew Lane
Call Number: SUSPENSE LANE
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Call Number: SUSPENSE HADDON
Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen McManus
Call Number: GENERAL MCMANUS

Poetry & Verse Novels

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Call Number: GENERAL ALEXANDER
Run by Tim Sinclair
Call Number: ADVENTURE SINCLAIR
By the River by Steven Herrick
Call Number: 811.9 HER

Fantasy

The Lord of the Ring SERIES by J.R.R. Tolkien
Call Number: FANTASY TOLKIEN
The 5th Wave SERIES by Rick Yancey
Call Number: FANTASY YANCEY
The Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
Call Number: FANTASY KAUFMAN
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Call Number: FANTASY COLLINS
Paladero SERIES by Steven Lochran
Call Number: FANTASY LOCHRAN

Historical Fiction

The Longest Memory by Fred D'Aguiar
Call Number: HISTORICAL D'AGUIAR
12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Call Number: BIO NORTHUP
1915 by Sally Murphy
Call Number: HISTORICAL MURPHY
1917 by Kelly Gardiner
Call Number: HISTORICAL GARDNER
The Trenches by Jim Eldridge
Call Number: HISTORICAL ELDRIDGE
Voyage to Botany Bay by Chrissie Michaels
Call Number: GENERAL MICHAELS

Australian

One Would Think the Deep by Claire Zorn
Call Number: GENERAL ZORN
Changing Gear by Scot Gardner
Call Number: GENERAL GARDNER
Currawalli Street by Christopher Morgan
Call Number: GENERAL MORGAN

Indigenous Stories

Catching Teller Crow by Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina
Call Number: INDIGENOUS KWAYMULLINA
Wraith by Shane & Alex Smithers
Call Number: INDIGENOUS SMITHERS
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
Call Number: 305.89 GRO
Deadly Unna/ by Phillip Gwynne
Call Number: INDIGENOUS/ GENERAL GWYNNE
Freedom Ride by Sue Lawson
Call Number: INDIGENOUS GENERAL LAWSON

Coming of Age

The Haters by Jesse Andrews
Call Number: GENERAL ANDREWS
Just Breathe by Andrew Daddo
Call Number: GENERAL DADDO
When Elephants Fight by Majok Tulba
Call Number: GENERAL TULBA
Fifteen Bones by R.J Morgan
Call Number: GENERAL MORGAN

Horror

Palace of Fires by Bill Bennett
Call Number: HISTORICAL BENNETT
Chronicles of Nick SERIES by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Call Number: HORROR KENYON
CRYPT SERIES by Andrew Hammond
Call Number: HORROR HAMMOND
Rot & Ruin SERIES by Jonathan Maberry
Call Number: HORROR MABERRY
Enemy SERIES by Charlie Higson
Call Number: HORROR HIGSON

School Stories

New Boy by Tracy Chevallier
Call Number: GENERAL CHEVALIER

Classics

Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Call Number: CLASSICS HEMINGWAY
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Call Number: CLASSICS GOLDING
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Call Number: CLASSICS ELLISON

Biography

Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton
Call Number: BIO HAMILTON
I Beat the Odds by Michael Oher
Call Number: BIO OHER
Leaders Who Changed History by DK
Call Number: BIO LEADERS