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Twelve Minutes to Midnight

March 1, 2012 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…arrive when Penny receives word of weird happenings at Bedlam, the notorious mental asylum. With Monty she visits the asylum and sees a heavily veiled woman leaving, and finds the…

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Meltem’s Journey

January 1, 2011 /in Picture Information Book 8-10 Junior/Middle

…why Meltem’s family were forced to leave their home, most of the book is concerned with the difficulties of their search for asylum in England: movement from city to city,…

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Nell and the Cave Bear: The Journey Home

May 19, 2023 /in Fiction 5-8 Infant/Junior

…lovely shade of green (to match the Woodland Clan theme, perhaps?) add to the overall fun of the story, which will be enjoyed by adventure seekers and animal lovers alike….

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We Played With Fire

March 13, 2021 /in Fiction 14+ Secondary/Adult

…the gold seekers heading out to California. A truly exciting work of historical fiction, We Played With Fire is also a genuinely chilling Gothic read. As with Catherine’s debut, Troublemakers,…

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Struck

May 1, 2012 /in Fiction 14+ Secondary/Adult

…lightning and channel it away from destruction. She is sought by two warring factions, the Seekers and The Followers – the former led by Rance Ridley Prophet, the self-styled latter-day…

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Seeker

March 5, 2015 /in Fiction 14+ Secondary/Adult

Quin cannot wait for the final test that will see her, and her two closest friends Shinobu and John, inducted as Seekers; that secret group with the ability to move…

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Wild Child: A Journey Through Nature

July 26, 2021 /in Information Picture Book 8-10 Junior/Middle

…for young enthusiasts who wish to find out more about wildlife or conservation. Reminder to look after nature we are all guardians as well as seekers and ‘We should only…

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Boy Overboard

February 1, 2003 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…asylum. Having survived landmines, firing squads and storms, we are left to wonder whether Jamal, his family and friends, are doomed to live in the ‘purgatory’ of an Australian-adminstered ‘transit’…

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Hands Up!

July 1, 2003 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…As the boy hero and storyteller Jason Lurcher rapidly discovers, maybe the puppets are controlling the asylum and maybe, just maybe, they themselves behave at the behest of the greatest…

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To the Other Side

July 19, 2023 /in Picture Book 5-8 Infant/Junior

…a safer place to live and each has a story to tell. Yes, this particular story is of crossing from Mexico to the U.S. but with more and more asylum-seeking…

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Gervelie’s Journey

July 4, 2008 /in Non Fiction 8-10 Junior/Middle

…Ivory Coast. When war breaks out there, she and her father flee to Europe. The fear and uncertainty of life as an asylum seeker are evident in the girl’s words,…

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A History Of My Weird

July 23, 2024 /in 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…problems. Meanwhile, Denham, the local, former asylum, becomes the focus of their shared interest as they wonder about the lives of the outsiders who were interned there in the past….

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Kende! Kende! Kende!

November 13, 2025 /in Picture Book Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant

…on a journey to sanctuary on foot, by truck and, finally, by plane. A story of refugee and asylum which stands out on several counts. Lolie and her growing family…

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The Society of Free Spirits: A Grave Inheritance

November 16, 2025 /in 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…that her symptoms were in her mind, something which often ended up with the person being admitted to an asylum. Importantly we have the slow build up of tension as…

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Dead Romantic

January 1, 2013 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…crazed scientist who murdered people for his experiments, before being locked up in a mental asylum. After Zoe demonstrates in a dissection class that she can bring dead hamsters back…

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England: Poems from a School

September 1, 2018 /in Poetry 14+ Secondary/Adult

…many children from immigrant and asylum-seeking families. These poems are the result not only of the encouragement of teachers but of the work of Kate Clanchy, the book’s editor, who…

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Mr Sparks

November 5, 2015 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…in an asylum. His future seems bleak, until an unusual guest arrives. Otto Schilling is a ventriloquist, a frail and elderly man whose luggage attests to his long travelling life….

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These Shallow Graves

September 5, 2015 /in Fiction 14+ Secondary/Adult

…his inspiration, a bleak lunatic asylum where the sane might be incarcerated by their enemies, and a warren of grimy alleyways peopled by scar-faced men with knives. There is even…

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