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Great Reads

The following titles are suggested books to read. Why not print the list and take to the library next time you visit? Visit your local public library and speak to the staff about the good books, resources, activities and programs they have available for you as part of the Summer Reading Club and throughout the year.

To find your closest public library, check the directories below.

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Great Reads – 12-14 Year Olds

  • Apache – Tanya Landman
  • Dog – Daniel Pennac
  • Don’t Call Me Ishmael! – Michael Gerard Bauer
  • Dragonkeeper: Dragon Dawn – Carole Wilkinson
  • Fat Boy Swim – Catherine Forde
  • Jetty Rats – Phillip Gwynne
  • Lockie Leonard – Tim Winton
  • Matilda – Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake
  • Max Remy: Superspy – Deb Abela
  • Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
  • One Whole and Perfect Day  - Judith Clarke
  • Ramose: Prince in Exile – Carole Wilkinson
  • Ranger’s Apprentice – John Flanagan
  • Round the Twist – Paul Jennings
  • Silas and the Winterbottoms – Stephen M. Giles
  • Starfish Sisters – J. C. Burke
  • Thai-Riffic! – Oliver Phommavanah
  • The Flea Thing – Brian Falkner
  • The Princess Bride -William Goldman
  • The Princess Diaries – Meg Cabot
  • The Shadow Thief – Alexandra Adornetto
  • The Spiderwick Chronicles – Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
  • Ten Things I Hate About Me – Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Too Cool Series – Phil Kettle


Great Reads – 14-16 Year Olds

  • Across the Nightingale Floor – Lian Hearn
  • A Girl Like Me – Penny Matthews
  • Angela – James Moloney
  • Anonymity Jones – James Roy
  • Brainjack – Brian Falkner
  • Dragonkeeper – Carole Wilkinson
  • Dress Rehearsal – Zoe Thurner
  • Falling From Grace – Jane Godwin
  • Graffiti Moon – Cath Crowley
  • I Lost My Mobile At The Mall – Wendy Harmer
  • Letters From The Inside – John Marsden
  • Money Run – Jack Heath
  • My Private Pectus – Shane Thamm
  • Obernewtyn – Isobelle Carmody
  • Pagan’s Crusade – Catherine Jinks
  • Paper Towns – John Green
  • Six Impossible Things – Fiona Wood
  • Star Dancer – Beth Webb
  • The December Boys – Michael Noonan
  • The Life of the Teenage Body Snatcher – Doug MacLeod
  • The Red Cardigan – J. C. Burke
  • The Seeing Stone – Kevin Crossley-Holland
  • They Told Me I Had To Write This – Kim Miller
  • Tomorrow When the War Began – John Marsden