Local School Texts
See below the 2024 school year texts for our local schools: Korumburra Secondary College, Leongatha Secondary College and Mary MacKillop College.
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
$29.99 AUD
Category: Local School Texts | Series: Growing Up
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
$22.99 AUD
Category: Local School Texts | Series: Flamingo Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His jo ...Show more
Digger J Jones by Richard J. Frankland
$15.99 AUD
Category: Local School Texts
My dad says that every day brings something different and every year's new. He said sometimes life slaps you down but you gotta get up and slap it back. Digger is keeping a diary about the things that matter to him: piffing yonnies at the meatworks, fishi
The 7 Stages of Grieving (25th Anniversary Edition) by ENOCH WESLEY MAILMAN DEBORAH
$25.95 AUD
Category: Local School Texts
This one-woman show follows the journey of an Aboriginal 'Everywoman' as she tells poignant and humorous stories of grief and reconciliation. Appropriating western form whilst using traditional storytelling, it gives an emotional insight into Murri life. A contemporary Indigenous performance text from t ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Local School Texts | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
Follow The Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
$19.95 AUD
Category: Local School Texts | Series: Nungar
The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk home. Under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, the girls were taken from their Aboriginal families at Jig ...Show more
The Giver: Collins Modern Classics by Lois Lowry
$17.99 AUD
Category: Local School Texts | Series: The Giver Quartet | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Celebrate Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal-winning classic story of a young boy discovering the dark secrets behind his seemingly ideal world in this 25th Anniversary Edition of The Giver. Includes a new afterword from Lois Lowry, as well as her Newbery acceptance speech.The Giver, Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal- ...Show more
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Local School Texts
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2017 'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing . . .' Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde ...Show more
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
$19.99 AUD
Category: Local School Texts
One by one the boys begin to fall...In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war?. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier? experiencing th ...Show more
Sister Heart by Sally Morgan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Local School Texts
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. Poignantly told from the child s perspective, Sister Heart affirms the power of fam ...Show more
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Local School Texts | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
Runner by Robert Newton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Local School Texts
Charlie's father is dead, and although his mother insists he stay in school, Charlie has no patience for the classroom. All he wants is to make money, to give his mother and baby brother a better life. So when he catches the eye of Squizzy Taylor, a notorious mobster, and is offered a job as Squizzy's c ...Show more
