Recommended Reading: Term 4 2015
Are you keen to read more about what you are learning in class? Come in and explore where the
library collection can take you next.
Year 7
English: Songs of Social Comment
Waltzing Matilda Meets Lazy Jack: 30 Australian ballads, poems and rhymes by Moira Robinson
Favourite Australian Poems by Ron Driscoll
Australian poems that would boggle a bull! by Phillip R. Rush
Humanities: Place and Liveability
Come in and play the ‘Run that Town’ app which uses real Australian census data to let you make
decisions about improving towns.
Year 8
English: Creating Short Stories
Paul Jenning’s Weirdest Stories by Paul Jennings
Round the Twist by Paul Jennings
Humanities: Changing Nations
Horrible Geography by Anita Ganeri (series)
Year 9
English: 12 Angry Men: Morals and Ethics
January by Gabrielle Lord
South by South East by Anthony Horowitz
Crime Stories by Ceri Jones
Humanities: Making a better world? The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution: From Muscles to Machines! by Carole Marsh
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
The Industrial Revolution by Sean Connolly
Year 10
English: Creating Magazines
Come in and browse our periodicals for inspiration: we have Dolly, Top Gear, Fishing, Game
Informer, and Rolling Stone.
English: Romeo and Juliet
Shaking Hands with Shakespeare by Allison Weddell
William’s Words: the story of William Shakespeare by Ross Stewart
Shakespeare’s Stories: Histories by Beverly Birch
Humanities: The globalising world: The environment movement
Globalisation by Justin Healey
Climate Change by Justin Healey