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Good Reads for Teens

2009 Book of the Year Finalists: Older Readers

NOTE: These books may be for mature readers

Title	Author/Illustrator	Publisher
Monster blood tattoo book two: Lamplighter	Cornish, D.M.	Omnibus Books, Scholastic Australia
Into white silence	Eaton, Anthony	Woolshed Press, Random House Australia
A rose for the Anzac boys	French, Jackie	HarperCollins Publishers
Finnikin of the rock	Marchetta, Melina	Viking, Penguin Group Australia
Kill the possum	Moloney, James	Penguin Group Australia
Tales from outer suburbia - Winner	Tan, Shaun	Allen & Unwin

Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Winners - Older Readers

Title	Author/Illustrator	Year
The ghost's child	Hartnett, Sonya	2008
Red spikes	Lanagan, Margo	2007
The Story of Tom Brennan	Burke, J.C.	2006
The Running Man	Bauer, Michael Gerard	2005
Saving Francesca	Marchetta, Melina	2004
The Messenger	Zusak, Markus	2003
Forest	Hartnett, Sonya	2002
Wolf on the fold	Clarke, Judith	2001
48 shades of brown	Earls, Nick	2000
Deadly, Unna?	Gwynne, Phillip	1999
Eye to eye	Jinks, Catherine	1998