Year 8 Author Study
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Allan Baillie
Adrift Little brother
Songman
Dream catcher and other stories
Mates and other stories
Megan’s star
Riverman
The China coin
Foggy
Isobelle Carmody
Ashling The gathering
The farseekers
Scatterlings
Obernewtyn
Greylands
The keeping place
Billy Thunder and the night gate
Brian Caswell
Asturias Dreamslip
Merryll of the stones
Lisdalia
A cage of butterflies
Deucalion
Mike
A dream of stars
Only the heart
Maddie
The view from Ararat
Ken Catran
The Onager Fire gods
Black sister
Talking to blue
Voyage with Jason
Road kill
Running dogs
Margaret Clark
(aka Lee Striker)
Rave on
Stinky shorts
Camel breath
The big chocolate bar
A wee walk
Plastic city
Care factor zero
(LEE STRIKER)
Teacher torture
Bat attack
Dead kids tell no tales
Bite your head off
Evil at camp star
Humans for breakfast
No standing zone
Footy shorts
Bad girl
Operation wombat
Seal with a kiss Pugwall
Pugwall's summer
Back on track: diary of a street kid
Hold my hand - or else!
Tina Tuff in trouble
Pulling the moves
Living with Leanne
On ya, Sonya
Web watchers
Fat chance
No fat chicks
The curse of the mummy
Whale of a time
Famous for five minutes
Hello, possum!
Okay koala
Annie with attitude
Secret girls’ stuff
Hot or what
Kiss and make up
Cool bananas : Coolini Beach
Wannabe wallaby
Sheila the heeler
Britt the boss
Judith Clarke Nighttrain The boy on the lake: stories of the supernatural
The lost day
The heroic life of Al Capsella
Angels passing by
Friend of my heart
Wolf on the fold
Jackie French
How to guzzle your garden
Hitlers daughter
The book of challengers
Stories to eat with a banana
Missing you, love Sara
Lady dance
In the blood
How the Finnegans saved the ship
Stories to eat with a blood plum
Walking the boundaries Somewhere around the corner
Summerland
Alien games; a collection of short stories
The metal men
The music from the sea
The house of a hundred animals
Beyond the boundaries
The tribe that sang to trees
Soldier on the hill
The book of Unicorns
Daughter of the regiment
Dancing with Ben Hall; and other yarns
Tajore Arkle
Twelve bottles popping; home made presents to flip your lid
Libby Gleeson
I am Susannah Where's Mum?
Love me, love me not
Skating on sand
Hannah plus one
Refuge
Queen of the universe
Eleanor, Elizabeth
Writing Hannah; on writing for children
Hannah and the tomorrow room
The great bear
Dead ringer
The creeper
Misery guts
Two weeks with the Queen
Bumface
Gift of the gab
Wicked (six parts) Blabbermouth
Sticky beak
Second childhood
The other facts of life
Puppy fat
Belly flop
Worry warts
Water wings
Battering rams
The Slobberers
Croaked
Deadly! (six parts)
Toad rage
Adults only
Andy Griffiths
Swinging on the clothesline; and other instant stories Rubbish bins in space
Just annoying
Just tricking
Just stupid
Just crazy
The day my bum went psycho
Libby Hathorn
Chrysalis Who?
Valley under the rock
Thunderwith
Feral kid
The climb
Rift
Love me tender
The spirited boy
Double sorrow
Way home
The painter
Thunderfish Beyond the shaking time
Under no flag
Eliazbeth Honey
What do you think Feezal? Dream time; Stories by sixteen award winning authors
45&47 Stella St and everything that happened
Don't pat the wombat
Not a nibble
Remote man
Fiddle-back
Princess Beatrice and the rotten robber
Honey sandwich
Paul Jennings
Unbearable! More bizarre stories
The cabbage patch war
Come back gizmo
Freeze a crowd! Riddles, puns and conundrums
Battering rams
Undone! More mad endings The gizmo
Grandad's Gift
Quirky Tales! More oddball stories
Uncovered! Weird weird stories
The gizmo again
Uncanny! Even more surprising stories
Unbelievable! More surprising stories
The naked ghost. Burp! And blue jam
Unmentionable! More amazing stories
Slobberers
Catherine Jinks
Pagan's scribe Pagan's crusade
The future trap
Pagan in exile
Witch bank
Pagan's vows
Eye to eye
The stinking great lie
What's Hector McKerrow doing these days
Victor Kelleher
The makers
The red king
Taronga
Slow burn
Earthsong
Brother night The green piper
To the dark tower
Master of the grove
The beast of heaven
Parkland
Where the whales sing
Fire dancer
Micky darlin'
Baily's bones
Del-Del
Forbidden paths of Thual
Red heart
Diana Kidd I love you, Jason Delaney Two hands together
The fat and juicy place
Robin Klein
The lonely hearts club
Games
Boss of the pool
Against the odds
Hating Alison Ashley
Junk castle
Penny Pollard in print
Penny Pollard's scrapbook
Barney's blues The sky in silver lace
The Listmaker Came back to show you I could fly
Separate places
All in the blue unclouded weather
Laurie loved me best
Tearaways
Dresses of red and gold
Seeing things
Boris and Borsch
The ghost in Abigail Terrace
Turn right for Zyrgon
Seeing things
Halfway across the galaxy and turn left
People might hear you
Penny Pollard's diary
Penny Pollard's letters
Penny Pollard's passport
John Larkin
Spaghetti legs Growing Payne
Ghost byte
Bite me!
Nostradamus and instant noodles
Cyber Payne
Pizza features
Gazza’s gone
Western Wildcats suck!
John Marsden
Prayer for the twenty-first century
Burning for revenge
The journey
The night is for hunting
The rabbits
Norton's hut
The other side of dawn
Marsed on Marsden: the stories behind John Marsden's best selling books
Darkness, be my friend Letters from the inside
Take my word for it::Lisa's journal
Looking for trouble
Staying alive in year 5
Tomorrow, when the war began
The dead of night
Cool school: you make it happen
So much to tell you
The third day, the frost
Out of time
Checkers
Creep street: you make it happen
The great Gatenby
Winter
Sophie Masson
Illusion A blaze of summer
The cousin from France
Winter in France
The opera club
The troublemaker
Sooner or later
Carabas
The tiger
The first day
The blue dress : stories
The firebird
David McRobbie
A little drop of Wayne Prices
The wages of Wayne
Schemes
See how they run
The fourth caution
Waxing with Wayne
The Wayne Dynasty
Mandragora
Tyro
David Metzenthen
Lee Spain
Danger wave
Brocky's bananagram
Animal instinct
Johnny Hart's heroes
Finn and the big guy
Gilbert's ghost train
Roadie
Falling forward
Stony heart country
James Moloney
A bridge to Wiseman’s Cove Dougy
Gracey
The house on River Terrace
Buzzard breath and brains
The snake man
Swashbuckler
Angela
David, the best model maker in the world
Touch me
Crossfire
Garth Nix
Serena and the sea serpent Castle
Aenir
Shade’s children
Sabriel
Lirael
Above the veil
The fall
Wendy Orr
Leaving it to you Ark in the park
Mind blowing!
Peeling the onion
Paradise palace
Dirtbikes
Paradise gold
Nim's Island
Arabella
The house at Evelyn's Pond
Emily Rodda
The Julia tapes
Rowan and the Zebak
The forests of silence
The lake of tears
City of the rats
The maze of the beasts
The shifting sands
Dread Mountain
The valley of the lost
Return to Del
Saint Elmo’s fire Rowan of Rin
Rowan and the travellers
Power and glory
Crime in the picture
The disappearing TV star
The ghost of Raven Hill
Poison pen
Nowhere to run
Haunted house
Fear in fashion
Photo finish
Stage fright
The timekeeper
Rowan and the keeper of the crystal
Pigs might fly
Bob the builder and the elves
Gillian Rubinstein
Answers to Brut
Beyond the labyrinth
Witch music : and other stories
The mermaid of Bondi Beach
Lake and Pete and the magpies' wedding
Terra-farma
Hooray for the Kafe Karaoke The giant’s tooth
After dark : seven tales to read at night
Before dawn : more tales to read at night
Foxspell
At Ardilla
Space demons
Mr Plunkett’s pool
Skymaze
Shinkei
Under the cat’s eye
Sharon, keep your hair on
Galax Arena
Mary Steele Featherbys Arkwright
A bit of a hitch : and other stories
Tenterhooks
Nadia Wheatley
The night Tolkien died The blooding
Dancing in the Anzac deli
Five times dizzy
The house that was Eureka
My place
Lucy in the leap year
Highway
The greatest treasure of Charlemange the king
Luke’s way of looking
Vigil
A banner bold : the diary of Rosa Aarons, Ballarat goldfield, 1854
Winton, Tim
Lockie Leonard, Legend
Minimum of two
The bugalugs bum thief
Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo The Riders
In the winter dark
Scission
Shallows
That eye the sky
Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster
An open swimmer
Cloudstreet
Blueback
The deep
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