Recommended Reads
Here are some titles that our Library Team have recommended...
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Tomorrow, When The War Began - John Marsden
Elle and a group of friends decide to go on a camping trip to the middle of Hell for a week. (A remote uninhabited spot deep in the bush). Little do they know that while they are enjoying each others company and the peace and quiet, things are happening at home that will change their lives forever.
When they return home, they find their families gone, pets dead and food rotting in their houses. Slowly they piece things together and find their families and neighbours are all being held at the local showground. On sneaking around to get a look at the situation they get shot at and chased by the enemy.
Knowing their lives are now at risk its time to think about survival. And with hell becoming the only safe place naturally it becomes home, they learn to be self sufficient in the bush but after a while realise they have some serious decisions to make, Stay and hide or stand and fight.
Follow this group of teens as they go from being ordinary school kids to becoming desperate guerrillas, fighting for their lives, families and their country.
There are seven books in this series and they will all keep you on your toes. This story is written for all ages and no matter what yours is once you start you won’t want to stop until you get to the very end.
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Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
Peter Houghton wasn’t a popular kid, he was always bullied by someone, his childhood friend distanced herself after joining the cheerleaders and his parents didn’t understand him through his troubles.
One day his life changes when he takes a gun to school with him and in nineteen minutes kills ten kids and injures many more.
This book will take you on an emotional ride through the grief, anger and frustration of all the kids, parents and legal representatives involved.
A well written book based on a story that happens all to often.
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