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SF - Senior Fiction Titles (Years 10 12)

Book of the Year Finalists (*) and Recommended Reads 2009 - 2010

General FictionTitle Author CommentsHeadgames Casey Lever

Anonymity Jones James RoyThe Pipers Son Melina Marchetta Sequel to Saving Francesca

A Girl like Me Penny Matthews Faction, gothic, crime fictionand romance

Sugar Sugar Carole Wilkinson Set in the 70s in Paris and thehippy trail to the East.

Will Grayson Will Grayson John Green and DavidLevithan

Beautiful Monster Kate McCaffreyThe Worst thing she ever did Alice KuipersConfessions of a Liar, Thiefand a Failed Sex God

Bill Condon

Blue Noise Debra Oswald 3 teenagers form a bandSwerve Phillip Gwynne Roadtrip with a differenceMamas Song Ben Beaton

Measuring Up G. J. Stroud The story of 17 year old Jonah- humorous

Pink Lili Wilkinson Funny, appealing, fast-paced

Fill out this application and waitover there

Ruth Starke A funny story set around theteenage job market

Letters to Leonardo Dee White

Halfway to Good Kristen Murphy A story about Year 11 Lukeand the ordinary stuff ofeveryday life funny.

Brown Skin Blue Belinda Jeffrey Dysfunctional homes, familyand teenage identies & abuse

The Last of the Braves Archimede Fusillo The story of teenage Alex whois Australian-Italian

The Winds of Heaven * Judith Clarke * 2010 Book of the Year finalist

Jarvis 24 * David Metzenthen * 2010 Book of the Year finalistButterfly Sonya Hartnett The gothic world of

adolescents set in the 1980s

Into White Silence * Anthony Eaton * Honour Book 2009

Finnikin of the Rock * Melina Marchetta * Junior Judges Honour book2009 Book of the Year finalist

I left my mobile at the Mall Wendy Harmer Teenage issues includingcyberbullying

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Fantasy Adventure

Title Author CommentsInto the Wilderness Mandy Hagar

The Crossing Mandy Hagar Set in the future

The Poison Throne Celine Kiernan Set in Medieval Europe

Psychological ThrillersTitle Author CommentsBeautiful Malice Rebecca James

Liar * Justine Larbalestier * Finalist 2010 Book of theYear

The Nest Paul Jennings

Kill the Possum James Moloney * Junior Judges Book of the

Year 2009 Book of the Yearfinalist

Stolen * Lucy Christopher * Finalist 2010 Book of theYear

Non-FictionTitle Author Comments

And Picasso Painted Guenica Alain SerresHetty A True Story Hetty Verlome Set during the HolocaustCreforce: The Anzacs & the

Battle of Crete

Stella Tzobanakis

Zero Hour Leon Davidson Anzacs on the Western FrontSomme Mud Pte Edward Lynch An Australian teenager in

WW1Riding the Black Cockatoo John Danalis A memoir with elements of

detective story andfamily/social history

Bite of the Mango Mariatu Kamara withSusan McClelland

Set in the civil war in SierraLeone

Maralinga the Anangu Story Yalata and Oak ValleyCommunities with

Christobel Mattingley

Australian oppression and theatomic bomb