Texts for disengaged students
Type of text
Year 6
Fiction
Trash Mulligan
ISBN:9781909531338
including
graphic novels* Blueback Winton
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
The Graveyard Book Vols
1&2* Gaiman
Sold McCormick
Stone Cold Swindell
ISBN:978-0786851720
ISBN:9780141927589
Lockie Leonard Scumbuster
Winton ISBN:9781743481073
The Hunger Games Book1
Collins ISBN:9780439023481
Holes Sachar
War Brothers *
McKay & Lafrance
ISBN:9780143304333
ISBN:9780062194817; 9780062194831
Hatchet Paulsen
Coraline *Gaiman
ISBN:9781416936473
ISBN:9780060825454
Conspiracy 365
Lord (series) Book 1 January
ISBN:9781741699944
Alex Rider- Eagle Strike*
Horowitz, Johnston, Yuzuru
& Kanako
ISBN:9780747544593
A Monster Calls Ness
ISBN:9781406339345
ISBN:9781554514885
Prince of Afghanistan
Nowra ISBN:9781743314821
ISBN:9781406318777
Poetry
Poetry anthology: clerihews,
Dylan Thomas couplets, cyber
(learning object on Scootle:
https://http://www.scootle.e
du.au/ec/p/home)
Revolting Rhymes
Dahl ISBN:9780141326832
Poetry anthology: haiku,
Love, Ghosts and Nose Hair
limerick, cyber (learning
Herrick ISBN:9780702228780
object on Scootle:
https://http://www.scootle.e
du.au/ec/p/home)
Picturebook
One Small Island (hardback)
Lester and Tulloch
Piggybook Browne
Ubby’s Underdogs
Rules of Summer (picture book)
McKenna ISBN:9781921248313 Tan ISBN:9780734410672
ISBN:9780670072361
ISBN:978-0679808374
The Tunnel Browne
ISBN:9781406313291
The Rabbits Marsden &Tan
The Dream of the Thylacine
Wild & Brooks ( hardback)
ISBN:9780734411365
ISBN:9781742373836
Film
Walle (2008)
Stanton (dir.)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Noyce (dir.)
The Lost Thing (2010)
Tan & Ruhemann (dir.)
Avatar (2009)
Cameron (dir.)
Bran Nue Dae (2010)
Perkins (dir.)
Non Fiction
Wicked Warriors and Evil
Emperors Lloyd & Denton
Animal Heroes Hill
ISBN: 9780143003809
ISBN:9780143304340
Drama
Hitler's Daughter - The Play
French ISBN: 9780868198132
Boy Overboard
Cornelius / Gleitzman
ISBN: 9780868198071
Crash! The search for the
Stinson Beck & Blacklock
The Happiest Refugee
Anh Do
ISBN:9781862913783
ISBN: 9781742372389
Dags Oswald
Hoods Betzien
ISBN: 9780868191805
ISBN: 9780868198002
Lockie Leonard Human
Torpedo
Paige, Gibbs & Winton
Skate Oswald (strong language)
ISBN: 9780868194783
ISBN: 9780868197272
Silent Disco Philpott (strong
language)
ISBN:9780868199610
Apps/websites
The Fantastic Flying Books of
The Artefacts Slap Happy
The Midnight Feast
Rules of Summer
Mr Morris Lessmore
Larry
Slap Happy Larry
Tan
Moonbot
Instant Poetry 2
Visual Poet
Inanimate Alice: http://www.inanimatealice.com for students from Year 6-9. Five episodes dealing with Alice from age eight to
sixteen.
Also Take 3 initiative http://www.take3.org.au
*Please note film, picture books, graphic novels and apps and websites are all multimodal. Examples of digital texts include DVDs, websites, ebooks and apps. The K-10 English Syllabus requires that ‘In each Year students must study examples of:
 spoken texts
 print texts
 visual texts
 media, multimedia and digital texts.’ pp 24 -26 online version http://syllabus.bos.nsw.edu.au/download/