Younger Readers Category 2016

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Younger Readers Category

2016_soonSoon (Senior Fiction)
by Morris Gleitzman

After the Nazis took my parents I was scared. After they killed my best friend I was angry. After I joined the partisans and helped defeat the Nazis I was hopeful. Soon, I said, we’ll be safe. I was wrong. Soon continues the incredibly moving story of Felix, a Jewish boy still struggling to survive in the wake of the liberation of Poland after the end of World War Two.

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2016_cleoThe Cleo Stories: A Friend and a Pet
by Libby Gleeson
Illustrated by Freya Blackwood

Cleo comes up with ingenious ways to make a new friend and find a pet.  Cleo’s best friend is away, her parents are busy, and there’s nothing to do but count raindrops – or tidy her room. Just when she thinks she’ll never cheer up, Cleo has an idea. In the next story, Cleo longs for a pet but her mum and dad say no. Perhaps the answer is hidden somewhere unexpected.

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2016_pipRun Pip Run
by J.C. Jones

With her beloved Sully in hospital and the welfare hot on her heels, Pip needs time, money and a place to stay. She’s determined to stay one step ahead of Senior Constable Molly Dunlop! With help from her friends — including a psychic cat and a canine escape artist — Pip needs to stay out of dreaded foster homes so she can help Sully get better.

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2016_heartSister Heart
by Sally Morgan

A young Aboriginal girl is taken from the north of Australia and sent to an institution in the distant south. There, she slowly makes a new life for herself and, in the face of tragedy, finds strength in new friendships. Thisis a story of the Stolen Generation.

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2016_mollyMolly and Pim and the Millions of Stars
by Martine Murray

Molly has a strange life. Her mama collects herbs at dawn and makes potions, her father and brothers have gone away, and her house feels like a gypsy caravan. Molly doesn’t want to know anything about herbs and potions. She wishes she could be more like her best friend, Ellen, who has a normal family and a normal house. But she is also secretly interested in Pim, who is inquisitive and odd and a little bit frightening.

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2016_shadowsShadows of the Master
by Emily Rodda

Britta has always wanted to be a trader like her father, sailing the nine seas and bringing precious cargo home to Del harbour. Her dreams seemed safe until her fathers quest to find the fabled Staff of Tier ended in blood and horror. Now his shamed family is in hiding, and his ship, the Star of Deltora, belongs to the powerful Rosalyn fleet. But Brittas ambition burns as fiercely as ever.

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