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Azaria: A True History | Walker Books Australia

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Where wild animals and people meet, tragedy can strike, because just like the big bad wolf, the dingo is not afraid of you and me. A beautifully illustrated non-fiction picture book that sensitively explores the collision of wilderness and civilisation, explains a famous miscarriage of justice, and examines the role of the media in history-telling, in an appropriate manner for children.

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This has been a controversial choice at my school (introduced in 2024). Some teachers felt the topics were too heavy for year 7 maturity levels (includes death of parent, abandonment issues and bullying). Know other schools use in Year 8 and 9.

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All The Little Tricky Things by Karys McEwen

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All The Little Tricky Things by Karys McEwen

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Azaria: A True History | Walker Books Australia

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Where wild animals and people meet, tragedy can strike, because just like the big bad wolf, the dingo is not afraid of you and me. A beautifully illustrated non-fiction picture book that sensitively explores the collision of wilderness and civilisation, explains a famous miscarriage of justice, and examines the role of the media in history-telling, in an appropriate manner for children.

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Lion (Young Readers ed) by Saroo Brierley

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Lion (Young Readers ed) by Saroo Brierley

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The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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That Stubborn Seed of Hope by Brian Falkner

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That Stubborn Seed of Hope by Brian Falkner

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There is a Graphic Novel from the film version available

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Charlie & The Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

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Charlie & The Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

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My Life as an Alphabet by Barry Jonsberg

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My Life as an Alphabet by Barry Jonsberg

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Fantasy unit: choose one of the following:

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Fantasy unit: choose one of the following:

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Northern Lights: Pullman
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Riggs
The Monuments By Will Kostakis
The Hobbit by JR Tolkien

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Film as text

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Childrent (Fantasy Unit - select 1)

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Childrent (Fantasy Unit - select 1)

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By Tristan Bancks
2020 CBCA Book of the Year Younger Readers Notable Book
Winner: YABBA & KOALA Children's Choice Awards
Australian Book Industry Awards Shortlist
NSW Premier's Literary Awards Shortlist
QLD Literary Awards Finalist
A DARING ESCAPE
A SCHOOL LOCKDOWN
A THRILLING CHASE
WHAT WOULD YOU RISK TO SAVE A LIFE?

Sima and her family are pressed to the rough, cold ground among fifty others. They lie next to the tall fence designed to keep them in. The wires are cut one by one.
Recommended for ages 10+
When they make their escape, a guard raises the alarm. Shouting, smoke bombs, people tackled to the ground. In the chaos Sima loses her parents.

Dad told her to run, so she does, hiding in a school and triggering a lockdown. A boy, Dan, finds her hiding in the toilet block.

What should he do? Help her? Dob her in? She's breaking the law, but is it right to lock kids up? And if he helps, should Sima trust him? Or run?
Read the opening chapters below.
This moment, these decisions, will change their lives.

BUY Detention VIA YOUR LOCAL BOOKSELLER OR ONLINEVIA PENGUIN HERE.

EBOOK (with free chapters)

AUDIOBOOK (with free sample)

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Utterly believable. Felt like I was holding my breath from start to finish. Bancks champions the strength and decency of young people caught up in a harsh world not of their making.

- Mark Smith, author of The Road to Winter

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Detention, new middle-grade novel by Tristan Bancks, author of Two Wolves and The Fall.

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A Wizard of Earthsea (Fantasy Unit - select 1)

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A Wizard of Earthsea (Fantasy Unit - select 1)

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A Wizard of Earthsea (Fantasy unit - select 1)

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A Wizard of Earthsea (Fantasy unit - select 1)

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Fantasy unit - select 1)

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Fantasy unit - select 1)

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The Year the Maps Changed - Danielle Binks

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The Year the Maps Changed - Danielle Binks

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This text can be quite confronting, but is written in an accessible and engaging way for teen readers who are pulled into the story from the beginning as they follow a teen on the run from being 'unwound' (forced to be harvested for his body parts)

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Students study - Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Pankration

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Students study - Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Pankration

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The curious incident of the dog in the night time

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The curious incident of the dog in the night time

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The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time, [Mark Haddon]

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The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time, [Mark Haddon]

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For Year 10 EAL students

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Lion: Long Way Home (Young Readers Ed)- Brierley

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Lion: Long Way Home (Young Readers Ed)- Brierley

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Gothic Literature - eg The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)

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Gothic Literature - eg The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Film) directed by Taika Waititi

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Film) directed by Taika Waititi

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Literature Circles. A range of text types

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Literature Circles. A range of text types

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The students have to read a variety of texts - articles, short stories, a chapter from a book (Auggie and Me) and 2 short films

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Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian - Alexie

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Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian - Alexie

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. JK Rowling (Film- studying theme: Heroes)

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. JK Rowling (Film- studying theme: Heroes)