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!
DOWNLOAD THE WEIRD
Discover the world's weirdest facts in another bizarre collection from Ripley's Believe It or Not!

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.