Senior Fiction

Girls are disappearing and strange creatures are on the streets. Lily is saved by a tattooed and not-quite-human Regan when she is attacked by a two-headed dog. Regan is the Guardian of the Gates and it is his job to protect both halves of the city, the new and the old. Join Lily and Regan on their adventure as they race to find the girls, discover the truth, and expose a terrible conspiracy.

11+
“Speed of Light” by Joy Cowley. Jeff’s father is more interested in his money than his family. He has a brother who is in prison, a sister with a dark secret and a mother who pretends nothing is wrong. Jeff copes by burying himself in a world of mathematics. Jeff’s life changes when a terrible storm hits and a strand old women appears and challenges every thing Jeff has believed to be true.

10+

‘The Time Fetch” by Amy Herrick Is a thrilling adventure. Edward picks up a rock – a sleeping Time Fetch and touching it will release the foragers. The Foragers have been woken too early and they begin to multiply and gobble up time. Edward must try and stop the foragers.

Adjusting to a new country and a new school was never going to be easy for Herschelle. The food is strange, it’s so different to South Africa and, worst of all, no one understands the Aussie slang he’s learnt on the web.

But it’s the similarities that make things really hard. Herschelle will have to confront racism, bullying and his own past before Australia can feel like home . . .

A moving, funny new novel by one of Australia’s best-loved authors.

9+

In case you haven’t read any in the series “The impossible Quest” here is a book Trailer for the first in the series.

 

Visit The Impossible Quest website to learn more about the author and the characters she has created. Book 3 is on the new book shelf waiting to be reserved and borrowed.

If you are a dog lover, fans of Wimpy Kid and graphic novels you will be throughly entertained by ‘Apocalypse Bow Wow’. The end is nigh. Apocalypse has dawned. Everyone has gone … everyone, that is, except for two dogs. Unbeknownst to Brownie and Apollo the world has turned to utter chaos. It is only when dinner time comes and goes, that the pair slowly begin to realise that their owners might be Gone For Good.

There’s only one option – leave the comfort of their sofa and head into what’s left of the world. With only their wits about them, Brownie and Apollo must find a way to survive. It’s a dog-eat-dog world now!

8+

Izzy and her friends are SHOCKED when they meet their new headteacher. He has black hair, wears a cape and has funny, wormy lips. One time, they even hear him hissing in his office, and sunlight makes him go bright red!

But it’s when he bans garlic bread on Italian Day that they KNOW. Their new headteacher is a VAMPIRE and his army of vampire rats are going to take over the school. EEEK!!

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Have you been following the adventures of the guinea pig detectives; coco Carlomango and his cousin Alberta?

 

 

 

 

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