Welcome to Riverbend Standing Orders for July 2021.
We are delighted to bring to you a great selection of titles.
Kind Regards, Pauline and Trish
Picture Books
All Dogs Bark – Catherine Meatheringham; illus. Deb Hudson (4+ animals, language, travel, different communities around the world.)
I Am Angry – Michael Rose; illus. Robert Starling (3+ feelings, emotions, anger, resolution)
Somewhere – Jeanne Willis; illus. Anastasia Suvovrova (4+ frustration, emotion, imagination, play, home, parents)
The Woolly Bear Caterpillar – Julia Donaldson; illus. Yuval Zommer (4+ caterpillars, lifecycles, hope, dreams, transformations, looking beyond the exterior)
Primary Fiction
Bella and the Voyaging House – Meg McKinlay (8+ family, sailing, inventions, sustainability and recycling, adventure, grandparents, Teaching Notes)
Mina and the Whole Wide World – Sherryl Clark; illus. Briony Stewart (8+ verse novel, acceptance, refugees, friendship, humanity, belonging, courage, family, Teacher’s Notes)
Mort the Meek and the Raven’s Revenge – Rachel Delahaye (8+ Book trailer, humour, escapism, pacifism, being true to yourself, courage, slapstick violence, joking Ravens, illustrated fiction)
The Astonishing Future of Alex Nobody – Kate Gilby Smith (9+ time-travel, obsession with celebrity and fame, adventure, twist and turns, humour, friendship and relationships)
Middle School Fiction
All the Money in the World – Sarah Moore Fitzgerald (10+ friendship, poverty, aspiration, intergenerational friendship, inheritance, change, deception, privilege)
Are You There Buddha? – Pip Harry (10+ puberty, periods, championship swimming, coming of age, friendship, growing up, blended families, parental abandonment, adjusting to change)
Melt – Ele Fountain (10+ survival adenture, high stakes, climate change, corrupt oil corporations, intrigue, Arctic circle, bullying, action, family, home)
Rainfish – Andrew Paterson (11+ rebellion, peer group pressure, values, honesty, guilt, mistakes, innocence, theft, bravery, Teacher Notes)
Secondary Fiction
Henry Hamlet’s Heart – Rhiannon Wilde (15+ Brisbane early 2000s, LGBTQIA+, friendships, identity, Male MC, family, coming-out, last year of school, secrets, romance, siblings, some swearing, sexual references, underage drinking, Teacher’s Notes)
Six Crimson Cranes – Elizabeth Lim (15+ fantasy, Asian-inspired, fairy tale retelling, brothers and sisters, curses, courage and resilience, loyalty, royalty, romance, arranged marriage, heroes and villains, quest journey, dragons, betrayal, political intrigue, secrets, first in a series)
Take Me Home Tonight – Morgan Matson (15+ contemporary, friendship, all-in-one-night, road trip, drama and musicals, secrets, romance, when things go wrong, coming of age, identity, family, some swearing, underage drinking)
What Makes Us – Rafi Mittlefehldt (15+ urban US contemporary, nature vs nurture, family secrets, friendship, violence in protest movement, terrorism, patriotism, coming of age, friendship, Judaism, living in hiding)
Adult Fiction
After Story – Larissa Behrendt
The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story – Karen Brooks
Primary Fiction (Boys Only Pack)
Mort the Meek and the Raven’s Revenge – Rachel Delahaye (8+ Book trailer, humour, escapism, pacifism, being true to yourself, courage, slapstick violence, joking Ravens, illustrated fiction)
Space Oddity – Christopher Edge (8+ intergalactic space adventure, science fiction, aliens, humour, family, Creative Writing Challenge)
The Astonishing Future of Alex Nobody – Kate Gilby Smith (9+ time-travel, obsession with celebrity and fame, adventure, twist and turns, humour, friendship and relationships)
The Memory Thief – Leonie Agnew (9+ adventure, friendship between a lonely troll and young girl, memories, kindness, companionship, mystery, thrills, hope, fantasy)
Middle School Fiction (Boys Only Pack)
A Weekend With Oscar – Robyn Bavati (12+ family, Down Syndrome, love, loss, grief, empathy, compassion, disability, coming of age, first love)
Melt – Ele Fountain (10+ survival adenture, high stakes, climate change, corrupt oil corporations, intrigue, Arctic circle, bullying, action, family, home)
Rainfish – Andrew Paterson (11+ rebellion, peer group pressure, values, honesty, guilt, mistakes, innocence, theft, bravery, Teacher Notes)
The Life and Time of Lonny Quicke – Kirsty Applebaum (11+family, secrets, power, corruption, folklore, contemporary setting, loss, illness, adventure)
Secondary School Fiction (Boys Only Pack)
Henry Hamlet’s Heart – Rhiannon Wilde (15+ Brisbane early 2000s, LGBTQIA+, friendships, identity, Male MC, family, coming-out, last year of school, secrets, romance, siblings, some swearing, sexual references, underage drinking, Teacher’s Notes)
The Fascinators – Andrew Eliopulos (15+ coming of age, urban paranormal, alternate world with magic, school story, friendships, identity, LGBTQIA+, romance, magic, secrets and lies, suspense, some swearing, sexual references)
The Block (The Loop #2) – Ben Oliver (15+ second in series, science fiction thriller, reunion of friends, war, environmental threats, prison, artificial intelligence)
What Makes Us – Rafi Mittlefehldt (15+ urban US contemporary, nature vs nurture, family secrets, friendship, violence in protest movement, terrorism, patriotism, coming of age, friendship, Judaism, living in hiding)
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