May 2021
The Tale of the Whale
This book is about a child who goes on an adventure with a whale in the ocean. The whale shows the child what happens when plastic and other rubbish ends up in the ocean. I like the way the child and whale become friends while teaching anyone who reads this book about plastic pollution in …
The Ballad of Melodie Rose
The Ballad of Melodie Rose is an emotional story about a girl who becomes a ghost. The book explores the themes of abandonment and invisibility, and how the way you see yourself affects the way others see you. The Ballad of Melodie Rose makes you stop and think about the power of being heard even …
Bindi
Bindi is written in verse style. It’s about an 11-year-old girl, called Bindi, who hates math, because she doesn’t understand it at all. Bindi loves art and her art classes and hockey. Where she lives, they get a lot of bushfires. The bushfires happen often. Bindi also plays hockey with her friends; they have good …
A Glasshouse of Stars
In this unique book, the author, Shirley Marr took a wild dive off the traditional layout for stories and wrote the entire book in second person. Being in second person, you are immersed into the story as if it was happening to you. It tells the story of a little girl who has just immigrated …
Tribal Lores
Tribal Lores by Archimede Fusillo is an engaging, engrossing novel which explores the life of a young teenage boy with Italian parents, set in an Australia different to the one we know today. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, because its many subplots were interesting. When reading this book, I never truly knew what to expect …