KEY
 Adult read
 Quicker/Easier
P Picture book
Being
Different
 True stories
 Short stories
B Biography
…. because of race, religion, sexual orientation,
family structure, isn’t always easy …
Ethnic and race issues…
Soraya the Storyteller
by Rosanne Hawke
Walk in my Shoes 
by Alwyn Evans
Little Brother 
by Allan Baillie
Jumping to Heaven 
by Katherine Goode
Refugee Boy
by Benjamin Zephaniah
Ten Things I Hate About Me
Does my Head Look Big in This?
Where the Streets had a Name
3 books by Randa Abdel-Fattah
These books explore different aspects of racial and
cultural difference, written by an Australian-bornMuslim-Palestinian-Egyptian-chocoholic.
Looking for Alibrandi
by Melina Marchetta
has similar themes as the above books.
Willow Tree and Olive
by Irini Savvides
Has similar themes as the above books.
by Alan Sunderland
Gay themes…
Dance on my Grave
by Aidan Chambers
Obsessive love …Hal falls for Barry big time and
makes a promise he will not break.
Happy Endings are all Alike
by Sandra Scoppettone
Janet and Peggy and romance over summer.
Two Weeks with the Queen 
by Morris Gleitzman
Hide and Seek 
The Kite Runner 
by Kahled Hosseini
It isn’t just race that makes a difference, it’s also caste.
My Place 
Refugee : the Diary of Ali Ismail
The Burnt Stick  P
by Jenny Pausacker
Stories about being young and gay/lesbian
Fifty Ways of Saying Fabulous
by Sally Morgan
by Anthony Hill
Two books about the realities of growing up aboriginal.
by Graeme Aitken
Growing up on a farm, looking fabulous in a ponytail,
finding the farm worker hot …..amusing and believable
The True Story of a Part Time Indian
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
by Sherman Alexie
by Shyam Selvadurai
Amrith’s life moves into turmoil as he falls in love.
A Step From Heaven Snow Falling on Cedars
by An Na
by David Guterson
The plight of refugees…
Peter
By Kate Walker
Peter has a wariness of adults, tussles with his older
brother, and struggles over friendship, sex, and love.
Girl Overboard 
Rainbow Boys
Boy Underground 
by Alex Sanchez
Boys, friendship, jealousy, more ……
by Morris Gleitzman,
He was criticised for writing these two books which
raised issues of keeping refugees in detention.
A Trick of the Light
by Susann van Essen
A life that includes two loving, gay fathers…..
To the Boy in Berlin
by Elizabeth Honey
Red and Silver 
by Ian MacNeill
Living in and through war….
Zlata’s Diary
 B
No Gun for Asmir 
A different way of life….
Housekeeping
by Zlata Filipovic
by Christobel Mattingley
Both books are about a child’s life in war torn
Sarajevo.
by Marilynne Robinson
Ruth and Lucille’s lives are far from average.
Escape from Sarajevo
by Christobel Mattingley
by Robert Swindells
Homeless, living on the streets…
Young Digger
Crossing the Line
by Dianne Bates
No Worries 
So much to tell you 
Blabbermouth 

by Anthony Hill
An orphaned boy hooks up with Australian airmen in
Germany in 1918 and is smuggled home.
Stone Cold
by Bill Condon
Living with mental health issues can be tough.
Heroes of Tobruk
by John Marsden
by Morris Gleitzman
Both these books are about living in silence.
by David Mulligan
Fighting in WWII aged 16.
Letters from the inside
War-torn: ordinary lives behind the battle zone
by John Marsden
Letters from a young woman in prison.
by Fiona McKay 
Go Ask Alice
My Brother Jack
Anonymous
A life with drugs ….
by George Johnston
The Rage of Sheep
Falling
by Ann Provoost, translated by John Nieuwenhuizen
Up against the Holocaust….
Diary of a Young Girl

 B
by Michelle Cooper
Trying to be ‘cool’ against all odds.
Keep Your Hair On!
by Elizabeth Vercoe
Living with cancer.
by Anne Frank
The Glory Garage : growing up Lebanese Muslim
Once 
in Australia 
by Nadia Jamal and Taghred Chandab
Then 
Both by Morris Gleitzman
Two children escape from a ‘death train’.
Behind the Secret Window
B
by Nelly S. Toll
6 year old Polish Jew tells her own story
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Standing up for truth and justice – and a Negro.
Wild Swans : three daughters of China
B
by Jung Chang
Life under Mao and communist rule and beyond.
Schindler’s List
Prodigal Summer
The Poisonwood Bible
by Thomas Keneally
Fiction based on fact, the story of a card-carrying Nazi
who helped Jews escape down the line.
by Barbara Kingsolver
Two books showing different values and different ways
of living.
A Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
by John Boyne
A friendship, at a concentration camp, between two
boys, the Commandant’s son, the other a Jew.
KEY
 Adult read
 Quicker/Easier
P Picture book
 True stories
 Short stories
B Biography