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I've been reading the titles on Fran Knight's list of books to read before leaving primary school. Sonya Hartnett's "Ghost's child" was a wonderful, couldn't put it down read..........a girl meets boy love story suitable for upper primary - what a gem of a story.
Elizabeth Honey's "To the boy in Berlin" is written in the form of an email conversation between two main characters in Australia and Berlin - the Australian girl discovers documents at her holiday house that lead her on a search to discover more about previous German immigrant residents of the house - also touches on themes of immigrants and racism in Germany.
The Red shoe by Ursula Dubosarsky is of the fantasy genre and "A grave Catastrophe" by Nette Hilton is narrated by a dog character. The story is told from the point of view of a dog - different.
Great to have this list and good to challenge year 5,6,7 students to broaden their reading horizons before they leave primary school.
Posted at 01:01PM Oct 12, 2009 by Jenny Brisbane |
Jenny Brisbane
- Location
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Organisation
- Unity College
- Sector
- School Education
- Role
- Librarian
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ASLA, educators use of new technologies, primary libraries, SLASA
