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9Plus Booklist by Title - Full 9plus Booklist by Title - Full When using this booklist, please be aware of the need for guidance to ensure students select texts considered appropriate for their age, interest and maturity levels. PRC Title/Author Publisher Year ISBN Annotations 16047 About a girl Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd 2010 9781742371443 Anna is afraid she must be unlovable until she meets Flynn. Together, Horniman, Joanne the girls swim, eat banana cake, laugh and love. Some days, Flynn is unreachable. On other days, she's at Anna's door. When Anna discovers Flynn's secret, she wonders if she knows her at all. Includes mature themes. Usually read by students in Years 9, 10 or above. 602864 Ace of Shades Harlequin 2018 9781489256560 Enne Salta is a naive young lady with strengths yet to be revealed. Lost Foody, Amanda and alone in a new city which is rife with criminal gangs and corruption, Enne is in a desperate search for her lost mother. Along the way she finds out incredible truths about her mother and her family background, whilst discovering untold strengths. Usually read by students in years 9, 10, or above. 27/09/21 7:18 PM 9plus Booklist by Title - Full Page 1 of 121 PRC Title/Author Publisher Year ISBN Annotations 571050 After the lights go out Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd 2018 9781760297299 What happens when the lights go off after what might truly be an end-of- Wilkinson, Lili the-world event? How do you stay alive? Who do you trust? How much do you have to sacrifice? Seventeen-year-old Pru Palmer lives with her twin sisters, Grace and Blythe, and their father, Rick, on the outskirts of an isolated mining community. The Palmers are doomsday preppers. They have a bunker filled with non-perishable food and a year's worth of water. One day while Rick is at the mine, the power goes out. At the Palmers' house, and in the town. All communication is cut. No one knows why. It doesn't take long for everything to unravel. In town, supplies run out and people get desperate. The sisters decide to keep their bunker a secret. The world is different; the rules are different. Survival is everything, and family comes first. Usually read by students in Years 9, 10 or above. 4809 Afterlight Text Publishing Co 2015 9781925240498 Since her parents died, Sophie Teague's life has fallen apart. She's just Lim, Rebecca enrolled at a new high school, hoping for a fresh start. But, Eve, a beautiful ghost, starts making terrifying nightly appearances, wanting Sophie to be her hands, eyes and go-to girl to tie up loose ends. Dealing with the dead might just involve the greatest sacrifice of all. Dark, thrilling and unrelentingly eerie. Usually read by students in Years 9, 10 or above. 12278 Afterworlds Penguin 2014 9780143572046 Darcy, a budding author, arrives in New York City, to live her dream life Westerfeld, Scott as a published author of a novel, 'Afterworlds'. Told in alternating chapters is Darcy's novel, a suspenseful thriller about Lizzie, a teen who slips into the 'Afterworld', a place between the living and the dead, to survive a terrorist attack. The stories intertwine and one reality becomes the other. A challenging read; usually read by students in Years 9, 10 or above. 4249 Against the tide ABC Books 2008 9780733322907 Katie and Matt are champion ocean swimmers who love a challenge Savvides, Irini that will test their training and skills to the limit. Effi and Christie live in a different world which is intense, funny, often overheated and far removed from the beach. When these two worlds meet, in a blend of love and loss, violence and prejudice, only the strongest will succeed in swimming against the tide. Usually read by students in Years 9, 10 or above. 15510 Al Capone does my shirts Bloomsbury 2004 9780747568988 Moose Flanagan lives with his family on Alcatraz, a high security prison Choldenko, Gennifer housing the notorious Al Capone, in the 1930s. His friend's plan to make money out of this backfires with serious consequences. Usually read by students in Years 9, 10 and above. 3154 Alaska Penguin Books 2011 9780143206118 When Mia follows her sister halfway across the world to Alaska, she Saliba, Sue Australia discovers that love can be found in the most unexpected and beautiful of places. Mia must find the courage to follow her heart in Alaska. Usually read by students in Years 9, 10 or above. 27/09/21 7:18 PM 9plus Booklist by Title - Full Page 2 of 121 PRC Title/Author Publisher Year ISBN Annotations 785 Alexander Altmann A10567 Black Dog Books 2014 9781922179999 Alexander is a Jewish boy during World War II and is being held in a Zail, Suzy camp. To survive, he toughens up and vows to make friends with nobody. He is given the job of caring for the soldiers' horses, where he is ordered to break in the commander's new horse, who is scared and damaged. Usually read by students in Years 9, 10 or above. 5343 All I ever wanted Text Publishing Co 2011 9781921758300 RULE NUMBER ONE: I will not turn out like my mother. Mim wants to Wakefield, Vikki be anywhere but home -- in a dead suburb and with a mother who won't get off the couch. She's set herself rules to live by, but she's starting to break them. In nine days she'll turn seventeen. What she doesn't know is that her life is about to change forever. And when it does, the same things will look entirely different. Usually read by students in years 9, 10, or above. 8 All in the blue unclouded weather Penguin 1992 9780140349825 A collection of interlinked stories set in the late 1940s in an Australian Klein, Robin country town which focus on the four young Melling sisters. Each story links the girls and their friends together in a variety of domestic events and problems. The stories present a nostalgic feel for the post-war years. Usually read by students in years 9, 10 and above. 587849 All that impossible space Lothian Books 2019 9780734419637 Lara Laylor is 15 and is struggling to find her sense of self. She's always Morgan, Anna been seen as Ashley's best friend or Hannah's sister. When hher History teacher Mr Grant gives her the assignment of researching the mystery of Adelaide's Somerton Man, she is instantly transported into another world. Lara becomes a detective as she tries to find out who this mysterious man was and why he died, anonymously, on a beach. As Lara researches, she is able to ignore some of the toxic friendships and crushes happening around her. However, she needs to grow up eventually and solve her own mysteries too. Usually read by students in years 9, 10, or above. 13887 All the light we cannot see HarperCollins 2015 9780007548699 For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. Doerr, Anthony Australia The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History. The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. And a future which draws her ever closer to Werner, a German orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the Hitler Youth. In this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories of Marie-Laure and Werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Usually read by students in years 9, 10 and above. 27/09/21 7:18 PM 9plus Booklist by Title - Full Page 3 of 121 PRC Title/Author Publisher Year ISBN Annotations 660721 All the stars and teeth St Martin's 2020 9781250307781 In the Kingdom of Visidia, each island has its own unique form of magic. Grace, Adalyn As princess of Visidia, Amora Montara has spent her whole life learning to control the ruling family's dangerous soul magic. Amora is determined to rule fairly and justly, and grows frustrated as her father, the King of Visidia, continues to exclude her from the politics of her future kingdom. She has also spent her entire life preparing for the performance of soul magic that will prove her suitability to rule. But on the night of her performance, Amora loses control of her soul magic and is forced to flee. She strikes a deal with a mysterious pirate, who promises to help her in exchange for Amora's assistance reclaiming his stolen magic. As Amora travels the seas, she learns things in her kingdom are not quite what they seem to be, and it's not just her crown that is in danger, but her entire kingdom. Usually read by students in years 9, 10 and above. 4203 All too much Bloomsbury 2017 9781472934079 Samira wants to do well, her parents want her to do well, her teachers Cotterill, Jo want her to do well, but the pressure is starting to tell. Can her friends rescue her when it all gets too much? Usually read by students in Years 9, 10 or above. 6512 Amelia Westlake Hardie Grant Egmont 2018 9781760127152 Harriet and Wilhelmina couldn't be more dissimilar. Harriet has the Gough, Erin perfect life - she's dating the perfect girl, has been elected prefect, is the apple of her teachers' eye, and is an overachiever.
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