Howl's Moving Castle
Fantasy novel written for young adults. Sophie is the eldest of three sisters, who live in a magical kingdom, working in a family hattery; not knowing she has magical powers, she manufactures and puts magic...
Teens
Northern Lights (His Dark Materials, 1)
Lyra Belacqua is an eleven-year-old girl who lives at Jordan College in Oxford. One day she sneaks into the reserved room with her dæmon (a manifestation of her soul in the form of an animal)....
A Long Walk to Water
A short, uplifting story that has two alternating narratives and that follows the lives of two young people. The first story is set in 2008 and follows Nada, a girl in Southern Sudan, who spends her life...
Magyk
In an imaginary world full of magic and wizards, the Heap family awaits the arrival of the seventh son. He will be the seventh child of the seventh son and hence will be an especially gifted wizard. However...
A Rose for the Anzac Boys
Honour Book, The Children's Book Council of Australia. The book tells the story of three older girls still at school who leave England to provide beverages and food for wounded soldiers passing through...
Charlotte's Web
This favourite American children’s novel tells the story of a pig named Wilbur and his friend, a barn spider named Charlotte. When Wilbur is in danger of being slaughtered by the farmer, Charlotte writes...
The Dark Room
The book written in a third person narratives is about the Second World War and three ordinary people affected by it. The first is Helmut, a young photographer, born in the early 1900's in Germany. He is...
A Waltz for Matilda
This novel is an imaginative recreation of Australian colonial history based on Australia’s well-loved bush ballad by Banjo Paterson, ‘Waltzing Matilda’. After the hero of the ballad, a swagman, dies trying...
Prince of Afghanistan
A powerful story of bravery and survival of a young Australian soldier and his sniffer dog in modern Afghanistan. The narrative follows the soldier’s journey back to the American army base after a Taliban...
The Long Earth
"The Long Earth" explores the literary discovery of what would happen in our world if it were easy for anyone to move to another universe of their choice, knowing that there are universes available to the...