Holiday reading recommendations – Ms Boss

 Year 7 and Year 8
Once series by Morris Gleitzman
When I first started planning Once I had no idea that a 10-year-old Polish Jewish boy would take me on the writing journey of my life. I just wanted to write a story about a friendship. A wonderful friendship between two young people who can’t believe their luck because they’ve found what most of us want more than anything. A true friend.
This is a wonderful story about survival and friendship in WWII. This is the first book of the series, followed by Then, After, Soon, Maybe, Now and Always.

Year 9 and Year 10
The Blue Dress - Libby Hathorn (ed) short stories
These stories offer the reader different ways to define and access our common experience and in doing so the writers reflect with considerable insight on what it is to be on the threshold of childhood in an adult world.
This is a collection of short stories by some of Australia’s most acclaimed writers including Brian Caswell, Gary Crew, Libby Gleeson and Nadia Wheatley.

 Tomorrow when the War Began by John Marsden
… I really love ripping yarns. I love narratives that are strong and that drive a story. I watch blockbusters from Hollywood and I enjoy them but I want more than that. And so to combine that with something that actually is multi-layered and is searching for something a bit more profound … that achieved that kind of complexity.
A suspenseful adventure, this is the first of a series of books about a group of adolescents who fight back after a foreign invasion.

Year 11 and Year 12
Australian classics
The Harp in the South by Ruth Park
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

For Parents – contemporary Australian mystery/crime
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
The Survivors by Jane Harper

Holiday reading recommendations – Mrs Antal

Year 7 and Year 8
Phyllis Wong and The Return of the Conjurer by Geoffrey McSkimming
A Peculiar Peril  by Jonathan Lambshead
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
The Iron Trial series by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black

Year 9 and Year 10
Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers
The Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adyemi
Eleanor and Park  by Rainbow Rowel
My Sister Rosa  by Justine Larbalistier
Razorhurst by Justine Larbalistier

Year 11 and Year 12
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Humans by Matt Haig
The Poet X  by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Parents and Grandparents
Thursday Murder Club  by Richard Osman
The Man Who Died Twice  by Richard Osman
Boy Swallows Universe  by Trent Dalton
All Our Shimmering Skies  by Trent Dalton
A Gentleman in Moscow  by Amor Towles

Holiday reading recommendations – Mrs Varde

Year 7 and Year 8
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Year 9 and Year 10
The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do

Year 11 and Year 12
The Book Thief  by Markus Zusak
My Sister's Keeper  by Jodi Picoult

Parents
The Resilience Project by Hugh van Cuylenburg
The Ruin by Dervia McTiernan
Where the Crawdads Sing  by Delia Owens

Holiday reading recommendations – Ms Zullo

Year 7 and Year 8
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 
The Discomfort of Evening  by Marieke Luca Rijneveld 
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Year 9 and Year 10
Honeybee by Craig Silvey
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
Silas Marner by George Eliot
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Year 11 and Year 12
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
On The Road  by Jack Kerouac 

Parents and Teachers
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl 
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Holiday reading recommendations – Mrs Clarke

Year 7 and Year 8
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin

Year 9 and Year 10
The Giver by Lois Lowrey

Year 11 and Year 12
A Minimum of Two by Tim Winton

Parents
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton

Holiday reading recommendations by Ms Nguyen

Year 7 and Year 8
The Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafron 
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
The Door That Led to Where by Sally Gardner
The Invention of Hugo Cabret  by Brian Selznick
Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah 

Year 9 and Year 10
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
The Book Thief  by Marcus Zusak
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

Year 11 & Year 12
The Trial  by Franz Kafka
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Parents
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

Mrs Clare Murphy
English Coordinator and Literacy Instructional Coach