Outfall by Brian Ridden

It was a time for heroes, but I was no hero. In a world of colour, my mum feared I was dangerous red, my dad knew I was shrinking grey, and Tasha Strabe, the babe, expected me to pulsate rainbows.

The idyllic life of a teenage surfer is disrupted by falling in love, family tragedy and the threat of sewerage outfall.

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Finding Coaby by David McLean

Her half-brother Coaby represents the hope and motivation Aiesha struggles to find to face each new day. The trouble is her mother has denied permission for them to see each other. The repercussion of her choice to live with her father was having unexpected consequences. Added to that, her recent diagnosis was complicating everything.

This is a novel that provides believable insight into the impact of depression on an extended family: parents, siblings, grandparents and step family.

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The Santa Files I: The Tale of Dash by Linda Bell-Smith

Santa has an overzealous telemarketer to thank for the employment of his new foreman. An elf from the fascist eastern chapter of elves, Dash immediately gets busy with his plans to improve Santa’s operation, beginning with a strict adherence to Rule One: Naughty Children do not get Presents. Will Christmas ever be the same again?

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The Santa Files II: The Elves Go East by Linda Bell-Smith

Dash is back and he’s not happy! It’s too hot, Santa keeps mysteriously disappearing and the workshop is in Summer mode, and annoyingly relaxed. The letter from his father couldn’t come at a better time, requesting his presence in the Freedom of Choice Society of Eastern Elfland. He has no idea that his absence provides Long Tooth with the perfect opportunity to take over the workshop, or that The Secret Society of Monarchists are looking forward to his arrival in the east…

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The Many Worlds of Mickie Dalton by Michael Davies

When twelve-year-old Mickie Dalton meets a young couple in the park, he learns some astonishing facts. The two have come from a distant planet to seek out Mickie, because he’s not a human and more than that, nobody knows what he is, where he came from, how he came to Earth, or what happened to the rest of his species. Mickie joins them on a massive spaceship that travels all over the known Universe and he gradually picks up hints about his ancestors, the Pfafth once the most powerful species in the Universe who vanished a million years ago after ruling over 40 galaxies. As he grows and develops extraordinary power, he encounters the ancient Enemy, dedicated to hunting down the last of Mickie’s people. A million year-old war has started again, and Mickie must find where the Pfafth have been hiding.

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The Many Galaxies of Mickie Dalton by Michael Davies

Nearly a year has passed since Mickie Dalton began the search for his origins and the answers to the great mystery of how his species, the Pfafth disappeared a million years ago, and how they could be hiding from even the universal telepaths, the Speakers. As he matures, Mickie develops more and more of the astounding powers of the Pfafth, but not only are his own powers growing, so too are those of the ancient Enemy, the Sillaron. Then the Pfafth start to reveal their existence and he learns more of the great war between the Pfafth and the Sillaron, Mickie is confronted by the truth of what happened to his people and how and why they fled out of Space and Time. Now he must contact the Pfafth and save the entire species from destruction by the Sillaron.

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The Many Universes of Mickie Dalton by Michael Davies

At fifteen, Mickie has become a young man of astonishing and sometimes lethal powers with the entire genetic memory of Markel, once the leader of the Pfafth. Mickie learns where the Pfafth have locked themselves away behind a barrier beyond Space and Time. When they make contact, Mickie finally meets his own species and learns of the role for which he has been bred over a million-year program, a reality for which he has never prepared himself. The task is far worse than he could have dreamed, for if the Pfafth Galaxy is not returned to normal Time and Space, the entire Universe could become unstable and break apart. Mickie is faced with the ultimate choice between his own life and that of his entire race.

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Across the Line by Penny Garnsworthy     

Casey Reardon is knocked out during an under-14s rugby league match. When he wakes up he is the same but just about everything else is different. His team colours are no longer blue and purple, his little brother Mikey is now a little sister called Lily, and his best friend Tino’s mum doesn’t make great lasagne anymore. Has Casey lost his mind, or has he stumbled across an alternate reality?

Across the Line appears on the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge.

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The Mystery of the Third Seal by Margaret Pearce        

James Tadworthy lives in a post holocaust society. It is an ideal society where there are no wars, no crime, no pollution, and no work.

But when Tadworthy discovers his world’s shocking and closely guarded secret, he is launched on a quest through a dark labyrinth of underground passageways to discover what really waits behind the mysterious Third Seal.

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Myvanwy and the House of Dragon by Ken Sheerin     

Through no fault of their own Josh and Clare are set adrift in a hot-air balloon and borne by the prevailing winds to a small island in Bass Strait, the home of two dragons. The two teenagers are held captive and grow together in a virtual paradise until they prove themselves and are inducted into ‘The House of Dragon’.

 

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The Cyber Riddles by Penny Garnsworthy
     
Josh Townsend hates his life. He’s had to move towns; his new school doesn’t have computers, the footy team’s already selected and nobody seems to want to talk to him. Reluctantly Josh befriends classmate Caitlin Randall and together they play the Internet game ‘Cyberhunt’ which promises them one wish… if they can solve five virtual riddles. Will Josh and Caitlin solve the riddles, each more difficult than the last? And what will they risk to secure the wish of a lifetime?

The Cyber Riddles appears on the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge.

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Lifeboat by Brian Ridden

In 1857, Champion, the fastest ship in the Victorian trade, is involved in a collision at sea which costs lives, and wracks Seaman Will Drake with guilt. Unable to put the disaster behind him, Will sets off on an epic inland voyage on foot to a pioneering sheep station and the goldfields. Will succeeds in getting personal vengeance for the shipping tragedy, but it is only after he returns to the sea, and his courage is tested to the limit, that he finds satisfaction and surprises himself by becoming a hero.

Brian Ridden’s previous historical novels have been named Children’s Book Council Notable Books and won the Sanderson Young Adult Audio Book of the Year Award.

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Weekend Territory by Margaret Pearce           

In the sleepy coastal suburb of Willow Cove, Thorny, Lou and Happy spend much of their time swimming and surfing. But when they see a speedboat ram Mr Wilson’s dinghy, their early morning swim becomes the start of a weekend of adventure, mystery and terror.

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To Care for Lisbet by Brian Ridden 

When slavery was outlawed, plantation owners turned to the exploitive trade in contract labour to work the sugar cane fields of Australia. South Sea Islander, Orrani, is contracted to care for Lizzie after her mother's death. In a climate of wide cultural difference and racial discord, mutual understanding and respect develop over three decades. Then their lives are shattered by treachery as the government launches deportation of Island labourers who have brought it prosperity.

‘Beautiful, enduring... evocative, engaging characters, a brilliant picture of rural colonial life.’

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