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Alice Pung
Offers a vivid and ironic sense of two worlds. Combines the story of Pung’s life growing up in suburban Footscray, with the inherited stories of the women in her family.
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From one of Australia’s most celebrated authors comes a mother-daughter drama exploring the faultlines between love and control.
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At twenty-something, Alice is eager for the milestones of adulthood: leaving home, choosing a career, finding friendship and love on her own terms. But with each step she takes she…
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Alice Pung, Sher Rill Ng (illus.)
The second exciting book about Millie and her superpower of making everyday objects into something beautiful and useful.
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Asian-Australians are known to each other and the outside world by many labels: quiet achiever, FOB, gangster chigger, mainlander, banana. But are these labels based on some degree of truth…
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Alice Pung tells an involving, original story that captures the drama and pain of school life today, as well as revealing much about the choices of young women.
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An inspiring series for young and old makers by the award-winning author-illustrator team Alice Pung and Sher Rill Ng.
‘The stories in this anthology are special because they capture the school experience with rare authenticity. These are not adults writing about teenagers, but real young adult writers. -Alice Pung…
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Alice Pung & Sher Rill Ng
From best-selling author Alice Pung and renowned illustrator Sher Rill Ng comes an extraordinarily powerful and moving book about how the past can shape the future.
THIS STORY does not begin on a boat. Nor does it contain any wild swans or falling leaves. In a wonderland called Footscray, a girl named Alice and her Chinese-Cambodian…
In Australia, Lucy tries to balance her life at home surrounded by her Chinese immigrant family, with her life at a pretentious private school.
This delightful collection brings together Alice Pung’s most loved writing, on migration, family, identity, art and more. Warm, funny, moving and unfailingly honest, this is Alice Pung at her best…
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Like Heathers or Mean Girls with a uniquely Australian flavour, this delightful take on the beloved novel is an incisive, funny study of a woman caught between cultures and class.
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Millie Mak is now ten, and often feels shy and awkward. But…
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In this fascinating book, Alice Pung writes about one of her deep influences - the much-loved and hugely successful John Marsden.
Follow Marly on her adventure in the third of four stories about a daring girl torn between two worlds.
It’s 1983 … and there’s excitement in Marly’s house. Her grandparents…
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"A powerhouse story, a powerhouse voice, that wrestles with intragenerational fractures and complicated entanglements. At the center of the book is an obsessive kind of love, a love that gives…
Laurinda is an exclusive school for girls. At its secret core is the Cabinet, a trio of girls who wield power over their classmates - and some of their teachers…
Xiao Xin believes he is a fire warrior, but his family thinks the world is too dangerous for him. Can he inspire his family to trust him?
Xiao Xin believes…
From one of Australia’s most celebrated authors comes a mother-daughter drama exploring the faultlines between love and control. One hundred days. It’s no time at all, she tells me. But…
At twenty - something, Alice is eager for the milestones of adulthood: leaving home, choosing a career, finding friendship and love on her own terms. But with each step she…
Asian - Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award - winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve…
In this lyrical, bittersweet debut memoir, Pung writes a moving account about identity and the ultimate search for acceptance as she chronicles her life after her family moves from the…
"Sixteen and pregnant, Karuna finds herself trapped in her mother's Melbourne public housing apartment for one hundred days, awaiting the birth of her child--and her mother's next move in a…
It’s 1983 and Marly is just trying to fit in at Sunshine Primary School. But being a refugee from Vietnam doesn’t make things easy, and when Marly’s cousins come to…
It’s 1983 and baby mania has struck Marly’s house with the arrival of her baby brother. But Marly never realized that a new baby would take up so much of…
Follow Marly on her adventure in the second of four stories about a daring girl torn between two worlds.
It’s 1983 … and Marly needs a job. She wants to…
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Winner of the Ethel Turner Prize for Young Adult’s Literature at the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards When my dad dropped us off at the front gate, the first things…
One hundred days. It’s no time at all, she tells me. But she’s not the one waiting.
In a heady whirlwind of independence, lust and defiance, 16-year-old Karuna falls pregnant…
Robin Klein
Final Melling sisters novel–Grace, Heather, Cathy and Vivienne leave the freedom of rural Australia for new life in the city.
OUR STORIES is a funny, relatable and engaging new early-chapter book series that celebrates Australia’s multicultural society with authors and illustrators from a diverse range of backgrounds.
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Harnessing the power of the #LoveOzYA social media movement, this anthology features incredible short stories from ten beloved Australian YA authors.
Bruce Pattinson
Therese Burgess
This seies has been created to assist HSC students of English in their understanding of set texts. Top Notes are easy to read, providing analysis of issues and discussion of…
From 21 of the best writers in the Asia-Pacific region comes a collection about finding connections where you least expect them.
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