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Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Lebanese-Australian Jamilah, known in school as Jamie, hides her heritage from her classmates and tries to pass by dyeing her hair blonde and wearing blue-tinted contact lenses, until her conflicted feelings become too much for her to bear.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the months between high school and university, eighteen-year-old Natalie must deal with her parents breaking up, her best friends getting together, and her own budding romance.
5) Velocity
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Cassica and Shiara have grown up in Coppermouth, a dust choked town in the Outback, but now they hope to use their skills as race driver and mechanic to take on the Widowmaker, an off-road rally through some of the most dangerous places on Earth, to win fame and fortune--provided they survive the race.
6) Stolen
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
British city-dweller Gemma is abducted while on vacation and taken to the Australian outback, where she realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2011, c1999-2001
Language
English
Description
Presents three novels in which two brothers, Ruben and Cameron Wolfe, strive to overcome the limitations of their family's poverty, taking jobs as fighters, and Cameron, the younger brother, tries to find love with his brother's ex-girlfriend.
Author
Publisher
Push
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's a hot summer, and life's going all right for Jackson and his family on the Mish. It's almost Christmas, school's out, and he's hanging with his mates, teasing the visiting tourists, avoiding the racist boys in town. Just like every year, Jackson's Aunty and annoying little cousins visit from the city--but this time a mysterious boy with a troubled past comes with them. As their friendship evolves, Jackson must confront the changing shapes of...
9) Everlasting
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1855, seventeen-year-old Camille sets out from San Francisco, California, on her last sea voyage before entering a loveless marriage, but when her father's ship is destroyed, she and a friend embark on a cross-Australian quest to find her long-lost mother who holds a map to a magical stone.
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Luca's entire identity and future are entwined around dance until he loses his performing arts scholarship after a debilitating injury. Gutted and demoted to public school attendee, the only bright spots in his new future are two friends he quickly makes, but knowing that one is gorgeous, popular, and avowed heterosexual, Luca can't help feeling he is setting himself up for another heartbreak.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Told from two viewpoints, Sophia, seventeen, a Sri Lankan-Australian math prodigy with social anxiety, is panicking about her future when classmate and amateur magician Joshua proclaims his love for her.
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