Multicultural Reading : Australia & Oceania (Pacific Islands)

Sehome High School Library

9/22/2005

 

299 Lawlor                   

           Lawlor, Robert.  Voices of the first day : awakening in the

                Aboriginal dreamtime.  Rochester, Vt. : [s.n.] : Inner

                Traditions International ; Distributed in the United States

                by American International Distribution Corp., c1991.  Images

                of our origins -- Time and space in the dreamtime --

                Dreaming and Creation -- colonization and the Destruction of

                the dreaming -- Myth of the Golden age -- Earth dying, earth

                reborn -- In the womb of the rainbow serpent -- Seed

                Dreaming -- Coming into being -- Cycles of initiation --

                Aboriginal sexuality -- Dreamtime and the sense of being --

                Aboriginal kinship system -- Dream, earth and identity --

                Totem and society -- Totem and image -- Hunter-gatherers and

                totemism -- Totem and mind -- Totem and animism -- Death:

                expanding into the dreaming -- Death: the prepared journey

                -- Wise women and men of high degree.

 

305.4 Conway                 

           Conway, Jill K., 1934-.  The road from Coorain.  1st ed.  New

                York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1989.

                The memoirs of Jill Conway and her journey into adulthood

                from a 30,000 acre sheep ranch in Coorain, Australia, to

                America where she became the first woman president of Smith

                College.

 

398.2 Branham                

           Branham, Mary Edith.  Bed the turtle softly : legends of the

                South Pacific.  Scott Publication, 1975.  Includes legends

                from American Samoa, Western Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and the New

                Hebrides.

 

398.2 Westervelt             

           Westervelt, W. D.  Hawaiian legends of ghosts and ghost-gods.

                Tuttle, 1963.

 

781.796 Malm                 

           Malm, William P.  Music cultures of the Pacific, the Near East,

                and Asia.  2d ed.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall,

                c1977.

 

910.45 Fi                    

           Finney, Ben R.  Hokule'a : the way to Tahiti.  New York : Dodd,

                Mead, c1979.  To demonstrate to skeptics that the ancient

                Polynesians could have intentionally sailed across vast

                stretches of the Pacific without navigational instruments, a

                crew of scientists, sailors and volunteers built a

                reconstructed double-hull Polynesian canoe and sailed from

                Hawaii to Tahiti and back, using the technologies available

                to the ancients.

 

994 Moorehead                

           Moorehead, Alan, 1910-.  Cooper's Creek.  New York : Harper,

                1963.  Sturt -- The expedition assembles -- The journey to

                Menindie -- Menindie to Cooper's Creek -- to the gulf --

                Back to Menindie -- Towards Mount Hopeless -- Rescue parties

                set out -- Howitt's march -- Back to Melbourne -- The royal

                commission -- The public penance.  This is the story of the

                strange adventure that took place in the remote interior of

                the Australian continent a hundred years ago. The Burke and

                Wills expedition set out to cross Australia from south to

                north, enduring appalling hardships, and finally reaching

                its objective, only to culminate in disaster and disgrace.

 

F Duder                      

           Duder, Tessa.  In lane three, Alex Archer.  1st American ed.

                Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1989, c1987.

                Fifteen-year-old Alex struggles to overcome personal trauma

                and hardship as she competes with her arch rival for a place

                on the New Zealand swimming team participating in the 1960

                Olympic Games in Rome.

 

F Flynn                      

           Flynn, Pat.  Alex Jackson, SWA.  Queensland, Australia :

                Portland, Ore. : University of Queensland Press ;

                Distributed in USA and Canada by International Specialized

                Book Services, 2002.  When fourteen-year-old Alex Jackson

                starts hanging out with a group of tough skateboarders, he

                is overcome by peer pressure and winds up getting into

                trouble with the police.

 

F Fo                         

           Ford, Peter Shann.  The keeper of dreams.  New York : Simon &

                Schuster, c2000.  Deep in the central desert of the

                Australian Outback, a sacred stone that contains codes and

                carvings of an Aboriginal group's most powerful creation

                stories is stolen. Aboriginal elders know their people will

                die if the stone is not recovered and the thieves not

                punished. One by one, the three men who stole the stone fall

                victim to an ancient justice, a ritual in which the victim

                is literally "sung" to death.

 

F Mahy                       

           Mahy, Margaret.  The catalogue of the universe.  1st American ed.

                New York : Atheneum, 1986, c1985.  Summary: Determined to

                satisfy her curiosity about her unknown father,

                eighteen-year-old Angela May embarks on an emotional journey

                that shapes and forever alters the way she looks at herself,

                her unconventional mother, and her devoted friend Tycho.

 

F Mahy                       

           Mahy, Margaret.  Memory.  England : J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd, 1987.

                On the fifth anniversary of his older sister's death,

                nineteen-year-old Jonny Dart, troubled by feelings of guilt

                and an imperfect memory of the event, goes in search of the

                only other witness to the fatal accident and, through a

                chance meeting with a senile old woman, finds a way to free

                himself of the past. This is a wonderful story of a special

                relationship.

 

F McCullough                 

           McCullough, Colleen, 1937-.  The thorn birds.  New York : Harper

                & Row, c1977.  The saga of the Cleary family, beginning on

                an Australian sheep station in the early twentieth century

                and ending fifty years later.

 

F Michener                   

           Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-.  Hawaii.  New York, :

                Random House, [1959].

 

F Morgan                     

           Morgan, Marlo.  Mutant message down under.  1st ed.  New York, NY

                : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1994.  Gives an account of the

                spiritual odyssey of an American woman in Australia.

 

F Noonan                     

           Noonan, Michael.  McKenzie's boots.  1st American ed.  New York :

                Orchard Books, 1988, c1987.  Getting into the Australian

                Army by lying about his age, 16-year-old Rod McKenzie finds

                that war is not as simple as he had believed. How far can

                war force men to go?.

 

F Pershall                   

           Pershall, Mary K.  You take the high road.  1st ed.  New York :

                Dial Books, 1990.  An Australian girl's dream of being an

                older sister is fulfilled, until a tragic accident shatters

                her family, and she must pick up the pieces--with the

                support of a caring teacher and a special boyfriend.

 

F Pople                      

           Pople, Maureen, 1928-.  The other side of the family.  1st

                American ed.  New York, N.Y. : H. Holt, 1988, c1986.  Sent

                from England for safety during World War II to stay with an

                Australian grandmother known to hate her family,

                fifteen-year-old Katherine discovers a totally unexpected

                character and startling revelations about her family.

 

F Salisbury                  

           Salisbury, Graham.  Under the blood-red sun.  New York :

                Delacorte Press, c1994.  Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns

                are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with

                his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the

                bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

 

F Winton                     

           Winton, Tim.  Lockie Leonard, human torpedo.  1st U.S. ed.

                Boston : Little, Brown, 1991.  Fourteen-year-old Lockie, an

                Australian surfer, is happier riding the waves than he is

                trying to cope with being popular and in love.

 

PB Franklin                  

           Franklin, Miles, 1879-1954.  My brilliant career.  New York : St.

                Martin's Press, [1980].  A sixteen-year-old living in the

                Australian outback in 1895 voices her fears, conflicts, and

                torments about coming of age in a man's world.

 

PB Hulme                     

           Hulme, Keri.  The bone people : a novel.  New York, N.Y., U.S.A.

                : Penguin Books, 1986, c1983.  Kerewin, a part-Maori painter

                living in self-exile, is drawn out of her isolation by a

                mute boy who is cast upon a beach, the only survivor of a

                shipwreck.

 

PB Marshall                  

           Marshall, James Vance.  Walkabout.

 

PB Sperry                    

           Sperry, Armstrong.  Call it courage.  New York : Macmillan, 1940.

                When he was a small boy, Mafatu nearly drowned at sea. Ever

                since, he has been terrified of the ocean. To overcome his

                fear, he sails out alone, to die or to prove his courage.

 

PB Tyau                      

           Tyau, Kathleen.  A little too much is enough.  New York : W. W.

                Norton & Company, 1996.  Portrays the struggles of a young

                girl discovering herself amid a large and complicated

                family, set in and around Honolulu.

 

SF Scott                     

           Scott, William Neville.  Boori.  Melbourne ; New York : Oxford

                University Press, 1978.  Boori, a young warrior goes on a

                trek to fight the savage warrior Dingo. A tale of magic and

                adventure based largely upon beliefs of the Kabi and Wakka

                nations.