TEXTS
Below is a list of texts that may be used at various Year levels. Obviously this is not a comprehensive list and
the texts are open for use across all year levels. Nevertheless, this list may serve as a starting point for helping
you to think about planning to use texts with groups of students on a range of themes, topics or issues. I am
looking to expand this list by adding newer texts. Please suggest new texts for inclusion.
TEXT TYPE
English and
Language
Textbooks
Novels/Picture
Books
Short Stories
YEAR 8 & YEAR 9
English Outcomes 1
English Outcomes 2
Impact English 1
Impact English 2
EQ 1
EQ 2
Wide World of English 1
Handling Language Book I
The Glass Mountain
Room to Move
The Australian Letter Writing Book
Tomorrow, When the War Began
Destroying Avalon
Teenage Health Freak
Books by Morris Gleitzman: Water
Wings, Two Weeks With The
Queen, Grace, Now, Then
Lockie Leonard
Harry Potter
Thunderwith
Lucy’s Bay
Killer Boots
The Huntsman
Hansel and Gretel
Folklore (mixed set)
Room to Move: The Glass Mountain
The Machine Gunners (Space to Good
Night, Mr Tom (Time to Tell)
Dream: Greenfire)
The Silver Sword (Room to Move; The
Glass Mountain)
A Tide Flowing (Greenfire)
Holes
Tough Stuff
Books by Paul Jennings
The Lake At The End Of The World
Smithereens
The Bad Deeds Gang and
Other Stories
First Choice
Making Stories
Aunt Jane
Going to School
The Brothers
Tattercoats
Baba Yaga
Not Quite Like Jonesy
The Brighter Side of School
The Glass Mountain
At the River Gates
Our Dog Montie
Three Skeleton Key
Hansel and Gretel
Cap o’ Rushes; Rushen Coatie
The Terriers
Saturday Afternoon
The New Axehandle
Scary Stories for Brave Boys and Girls
Making Stories
Books and stories by Morris
YEAR 10
English Outcomes 2
English Outcomes 3
Impact English 2
EQ 1
EQ 2
Wide World of English 2
Handling Language Book 2
Greenfire
Stories and Stereotypes
Space to Dream
English Outcomes 3
Wide World of English 3
Summer Journey
About Literature
Time to Tell
Literary Terms: A Practical
Glossary
The 12th Day of July
Z for Zachariah (Greenfire;
Time to Tell)
That Eye The Sky
Deadly Unna
Looking for Alibrandi
Children of the Dust
Letters From the Inside
Brother Night
The Outsiders (Space to Dream)
King Arthur and the Round Table
(Greenfire, Time to Tell)
The Odyssey (Summer Journey)
The Chosen
A Separate Piece
Lord of the Flies
Great Expectations
Summer of My German Soldier
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
Books by Shaun Tan
I am the Cheese
So Much to Tell You
Strange Objects
We All Fall Down
Monster Man
Lockie Leonard
The Chrysalids (Summer Journey:
Time to Tell)
The Wizard of Earthsea (Summer
Journey)
Taronga
To Kill a Mockingbird (Yellow
Wood)
The Secret Life of Bees
The Metamorphosis
Of Mice and Men
A Taste of Cockroach
Craft and Other Stories
Short Story Starters
The Last Spin
Changing Stories
The Stench of Kerosene
Mine on Thursday s
Recipe for Success
Lamb to the Slaughter
Examination Day
On the Sidewalk Bleeding
The Prisoners
Compassion Circuit
The New Axe Handle
There Will Come Soft Rains
Greenfire
The Race Way Home
My Mother Told Me
Butcher Birds
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Hitch-hiker
All Summer in a Day
Watermelon Moon
Changing Stories
Gendered Fictions
Reading Fictions
Reading Stories
Stories from Suburban Road
The Blindfold Horse
Border Territory
A Legend in His own Lunchbox
Australian Short Stories
The Loaded Dice
A Taste of Cockroach
The Rainbow Bird
A Dream Cody Had
Border Territory
How to Read a Short Story
The Wish
A Weight of Thistledown
A Day No Pig Would Die
Dark They Were and Golden Eyed
Indian Camp
Feature Film
Websites and
software
Other NonPrint
Poetry &
Drama
For Teachers:
Internet
resources
Gleitzman, Paul Jennings, Andy
Grifiths
Books and stories by Morris
Gleitzman, Paul Jennings, Andy
Grifiths
The Princess Bride
Everafter
Holes
Diary of Adrian Mole
The Pinball
The Outsiders
Where the Forest Meets the Sea
Willow
The Winners
Fern Gully
The Story-teller series: “Folktales”
Teeny, Tiny and the Witchwoman
Around the Twist
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Lion King
Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
Looking for Alibrandi
Edward Scissorhands
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Children of the Crossfire
Enemy Mine
Indiana Jones & The Temple of
Doom
Superman/Batman collections
Star Wars series
Murder on the Rue Morgue
Project X
The Mighty
Hook
Romeo and Juliet
To Kill a Mockingbird
Terminator II
The Year My Voice Broke
Lex and Rory
Mad Max II
Martin Luther King
The Chocolate War
Stand By Me
Pleasantville
The Truman Show
Psycho
Gattacca
Mean Girls
Clueless
Story creation:
Kerpoof.com
Zimmerboys.com
Storybird.com
Creaze.com
Kahootz.com.au
Xtranormal.com
Bitstrips.com
My Pop Studio at:
mediaeducationlab.com
Website creation: Weebly.com.
Yola.com, Webs.com,
tumbler.com
Youtube
For copyright free images search:
Microsoft Office Online, Flickr,
Sxc.hs, stock.xching
My Place
The Gruen Transfer
Hungry Beast
Current Affairs programs
A range of Soapies
Summer Heights High
Debating Skills & Other Debating videos
Symbols
Round the Twist/The Winners
The Simpson
Spellbound
Behind The News
Fun with Poetry
Take a Chance
Bring the House Down & Caught in
the Act
Webenglishteacher.com
Englishteaching.co.uk
Teachit.co.uk
Mediaeducationlab.com
Mediaed.org
Admongo.gov
Hating Alison Ashley
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Cast of Thousands
Playscripts I
Across the Barricades
Year 9 are Animals
Snapshots From Home
PBS.org
abc.net.au
Teacher.tv
Ad access at Duke University:
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollect
ions/adaccess/
Frontline
In Search of the Edge
Imagine
The Resurrection of the Batavia
The Topic of Cancer
The United States of Guns
The Void
Bowling for Columbine
Painted Babies
Appreciating Poetry
Images
Greenfire
Poetry Is…
The Diary of Ann Frank
The Merchant of Venice
Appreciating Poetry
A Phantom Script
Our Australia
Poetry Involves
And the Big Men Fly
The Changing Stage
Exists and Entrances
Romeo and Juliet
All Stops Out (Dept)
Who Killed Romeo and Juliet?