Belonging - non-prescribed texts

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Novels:

Author	Title
Randa Abdel-Fattah	10 Things I Hate About Me Does My Head Look Big in This?
Michael Gerard Bauer	Don’t Call Me Ishmael
Gillian Bouras	A Foreign Wife
Robert Cormier	The Chocolate War
Graham Gardner	Inventing Elliot
Kate Grenville	The Secret River
S.E. Hinton	The Outsiders
Kathy Lette	Puberty Blues
Kathryn Lomer	The Spare Room
Kate McCaffrey	Destroying Avalon
Melina Marchetta	Looking for Alibrandi
James Moloney	Lost Property
Sally Morgan	My Place
Sheldon Oberman	Always Adam
J.D. Salinger	The Catcher in the Rye
Tim Sinclair	Nine Hours North

Poetry:

Poet	Title
Alfred Lord Tennyson	The Lady of Shalott
Tim Burton	The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and other stories
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Sandra M. Gilbert	Belongings: poems

Picture Books:

Author	Title
Jeannie Baker	Belonging
Greame Base	The Worst Band in the Universe
Eve Bunting	Fly Away Home
Armin Greder	The Island
Libby Hathorn	The Way Home
Justin Richardson	And Tango Makes Three
Shel Silverstein	The Missing Piece Meets the Big-O
Shaun Tan	The Arrival The Lost Thing
Margaret Wild	Woolvs in the Sitee

Non-Fiction:

Author	Title
Billy Bragg	The Progressive Patriot: a search for belonging
Will Davies	Tales from a Suitcase

Songs:

Musician / band	Title
Bob Dylan	Like a Rolling Stone
Bread	Belonging
Cold Chisel	Flame Trees
	Khe Sanh
Dido	This Land is Mine
Elliot Smith	Twilight
Eric Clapton	Tears in Heaven
Gary Jules	Mad World
Green Day	American Idiot
	Minority
Linkin Park	Somewhere I Belong
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	Into My Arms
Nine Inch Nails	Burn
	Right Where it Belongs
Paul Kelly	This Land is Mine/This Land is Me
Peter Alan	I Still Call Australia Home
Pink	Stupid Girls
Pink Floyd	Us and Them
	Wish You Were Here
REM	Leaving New York
Silverchair	Freak
Smashing Pumpkins	The End is the Beginning is the End
	Bullet with Butterfly Wings
	1979
U2	I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
	New York
The Waifs	London Still