Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

Jasper Jones is a rebellious, mixed-race, solitary boy living in a small town in Australia in 1965.  If anything goes wrong in the town the cry goes out "Jasper must have done it!"  When he makes a terrible discovery he turns to Charlie for help.  Charlie is a bookish thirteen year old boy and doesn't know why Jasper has come to him for help.

Together they carry the secret of the discovery trying to find the truth.

Charlie is having problems of his own with his tempestuous mother, his first love and he has to hide the truth from his cricket mad, best friend Jeffry Lu.

Along the way Jasper finds out things about his own family that have been buried hidden for too.

This book is a great read and won the 2010 ABIA Book of the Year Award and was also the winner of the Booksellers Choice Award.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid, is the story of Changez, a Muslim from Pakistan, who wins a scholarship to Princeton University and then acquires a job with a prestigious firm in New York.  He tells you about his life and family in Pakistan and his new life in New York but after 9/11 attitudes towards foreigners start to change and Changez starts to think about his life in New York and steadily becomes disillusioned.  Finally he leaves his job and returns to Pakistan ......

This book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 and has just been released as a movie.

Charities in Action

Fighting Poverty & Protecting and Caring for Children

These two books look at charities operating all around the world trying to improve lives of adults and children, with amazing stories and case studies and give advice on how readers can get involved.

Global Industries Uncovered series

The Tourism Industry and The Fashion Industry

The Global Industries Uncovered series takes a look at the impacts of some of the world's biggest industries.  By investigating the interdependences between people, places and the environment, it shows how every one of us is affected by the concept of globalisation.

The Tourism Industry considers what one person's holiday means to the world.  How many industries are connected to tourism?  What determines where people travel and how?  Do traditional cultures benefit or suffer when outsiders visit?  Case studies explore the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsumani, South African tourism, an international hotel chain and Austrailia's Uluru.

The Fashion Industry demonstrates the complex weave of issues that underlie our clothes. What are the costs of an outfit on an economic, social and environmental scale?  How do styles and trends spread around the world?  Who are the winners and losers in the global fashion industry?  Case studeis explore the making of a cotton t-shirt, accessories, footwear and alternative fash

ion.

Ripley's Believe It or Not!
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Little Exiles by Robert Dinsdale

Jon Heather, proud to be nearly nine, knows that Christmas is a time for family.  But one evening in December 1948, no longer able to cope, his mother leaves him by a door, above which the legend reads Capeltown Boys' Home of the Children's Crusade.  Several weeks later, still certain his mother will come back, Jon finds himself on a boat set for Australia.  Promised paradise, Jon soon realises the reality of the vast Australian outback is very different; its burnished desert becoming the backdrop for a strict regime of hard work and discipline.  So begins an odyssey that will last a lifetime, as Jon Heather and his group of unlikely friends battle to make their way back home.

John Green
We have added 4 books by the award winning author John Green to the library.  They are:  Looking for Alaska; An Abundance of Katherines; The Fault in our Stars and Will Grayson, Will Grayson.

Looking for Alaska
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

The Fault in our Stars
 Despite the tumour-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.







Will Grayson, Will Grayson
When two teens,one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend.






An Abundance of Katherines
19 Katherines and counting. When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an over-weight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun - but no Katherine's. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl.

Mockingjay

By Suzanne Collins
Now that you have read The Hunger Games and Catching Fire find out what happens to Katniss in the final book of the series. Will she become a pawn and accept responsibility to change the future of Panem. She must put aside her feelings of anger and distrust. To do this will be a matter of personal cost. Will she or won't she?

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

By Annabel Pitcher

This is the story, an unflinchingly real yet heart-warming account of a young boy's struggle to make sense of the loss that tore his family apart.

Black Painted Fingernails

by Steven Herrick

James is heading into the country on his first teacher-training round when a mysterious girl asks him for a ride. Sophie has him all worked out.

Find out what secret she reveals to him.

Ballad

by Maggie Stiefvater

This is the stunning sequel to Lament in which Dee falls in love with a faerie and James realized she'd never feel the same way about him again.

Trying to escape into music, James finds himself surrounded by more faeries than ever. Before he knows it James is trapped in a dangerous game. One where the only way to win is to betray the one you love ....

Resurrection

by Mandy Hager Maryam fights for her life, freedom and love in this thrilling finale in the Blood of the Lamb series. Maryam must get the islanders to listen to her plea that they start thinking for themselves - hoping to stir the independance in thir hearts, even as she finds herself on the brink of death.

The North Shore : an illustrated history

by David Verran

This history tells the story of the Shore's development from Maori times to the formation of the first North Shore City in 1989. It covers information about transport, population, settlement, industry, religion and sport.

Click the title to see information about the new Auckland Super City

Day of the Predator

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by Alex Scarrow

Time Riders series.
Liam should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 1910. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose - to prevent time travel destroying history. When Maddy mistakenly opens a window when she shouldn't have, Liam is trapped in a time sixty five million years ago in athe hunting ground of a deadly and until now undiscovered species of predator. What will happen !!!!!!! Will Liam survive. Will he make contact with the others. Will history be changed.

Fierce September

by Fleur Beale

The sequel to Juno of Taris.

Juno and the Taris inhabitants have to leave their dying island and go Outside.
But only days after the group arrives, a pandemic hits that has drastic consequences for Juno and her people.