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Belonging - the HSC English Area of Study: Related Materials - What's in the College Library?

Use this Guide to explore related themes, and source and access online and printed support material.

Prose - short stories

Picture Books

Explore our Belonging collection visually

Click the Pinterest icon to take a visual tour of some of our Belonging resources. Log in to the Oliver catalogue to reserve your copy.

Graphic Novels

Prose - fiction

Biography

Plays

Films

Suggested films - some are available for loan from our Library - check the catalogue

  • Billy Elliot - A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
  • Lord of the Flies - Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
  • Dead Poets Society - English professor John Keating inspires his students to a love of poetry and to seize the day.
  • Rabbit Proof Fence - In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a trek across the Outback.
  • Brilliant Career - Syblla Melvyn is painfully forced to realise the emotional cost of putting her career over love.
  • To Kill A Mockingbird -Set during the depression a white woman accuses a black man of rape.
  • Shrek - The endearing ogre who discovers his place in society.
  • Muriel's Wedding - In her hunt for Mr Right in all the wrong places, Muriel buys a one-way ticket to freedom; and embarks on a madcap journey of self-discovery where success isn't the best revenge, but being yourself is.
  • Charlotte's Web
  • The color purple
  • To sir, with love
  • Bend it like Beckham
  • Cry freedom
  • Whale rider
  • Hey hey it's Esther Blueberger

and others.......