John Marsden

Six determined Australian teenagers try to find their missing friends while continuing to resist the enemies who have invaded their country.

The Dead of Night

As survivors of an enemy invasion of their homeland, Ellie and her friends return to Australia as guides for soldiers from New Zealand who plan an attack on the Wirrawee airfield. Reprint.

Darkness Be My Friend

Ellie and her friends, a small band of teenagers trying to survive in the Australian countryside, continue to resist the enemies who have invaded their country. Reprint.

A Killing Frost

Having been separated from the New Zealand rescue troops they were guiding, five Australian teenagers continue their resistance against the unknown enemy invading their homeland. Reprint.

Burning for Revenge

While trying to care for a group of abandoned young children, five Australian teenagers continue their struggle for survival and their resistance against the enemy invading their homeland.

The Night Is for Hunting

"You jam on the brakes and stop the ute right at your front door. You jump out. Not for the first time you run into a house that could be full of guns, with death waiting for you. You don't even think of that until you're crossing the threshold... You already know what you're going to find. Underneath the fear and horror and panic there's a cold realisation that Gavin's body will be somewhere in the house. You can picture what those bullets will have done to his little body."It is a time of profound change for Ellie Linton. Enemies are everywhere. Some come crawling over the hills; others drive in and knock on the front door. Sometimes her friends are there and sometimes they are not. Ellie fights every inch of the way. But when courage and imagination are not enough, when she is trapped and helpless, Ellie must face the end of life as she knows it... standing alone, sustained only by her own strength.

Circle of Flight

Shaun Tan

Dramatically moving allegory of colonisation told from the viewpoint of native animals.

The Rabbits

Even though the war is over and she is back on the farm with her loving family, Ellie Linton is haunted by the memories and now must find a way to find the enemy within herself in order to move on with her life.

While I Live

Daylight couldn't be far away, and if they hadn't found me by then, it wouldn't take long once the sun came up. The drops of blood would be a dead give-away. Dead in every sense of the word.With a roar like a train in a tunnel, the war enters its final days. Ellie has to be on that train. There's no more sitting around, no more waiting. There's only fast decisions, fast action, fast thinking.And she'd better get it right. With all their being, Ellie and her friends want to stay alive. But there's a war out there. And it has to be won. The end is here...

The Other Side of Dawn

Live what you believe in... die fighting for it.The third day comes a frost... a killing frost.The enemy spreads across the land, cold and relentless. They invade. They destroy. They kill.Only the heroism of Ellie and her friends can stop them.When hot courage meets icy death, who will win through?The Third Day, The Frost is the third volume in the award-winning Tomorrow series.

The Third Day, the Frost

The relationship between two teenage girls who become acquainted through letters intensifies as their correspondence reveals some of the terrible problems of their lives.

Letters from the Inside

The follow-up to the bestselling Tomorrow series BOOK 2 IN THE ELLIE CHRONICLES TRILOGY "Addictive reading" Sydney Morning Herald "Australia's king of young adult fiction" The Australian Packed full of action and high-drama, John Marsden delivers another fast-paced adventure that will thrill old fans and new readers alike. "I held my line. I knew from the war, if not from shooting rabbits, that we were safe enough for the first moments. It is too impossible to hit a target like us from a helicopter that's rocking and rolling and trying to find its target. But maybe this guy had new equipment or maybe he was a brilliant shot or maybe he was just plain lucky. Bullet holes tore through the ute like a huge metal-punch was suddenly and roughly slamming a simultaneous line of them from our rear to our front." Ellie has struggled to put the war behind her and lead a normal life. Although what's normal about your parents having been murdered; trying to run a farm and go to school; and bringing up a young boy who's hiding terrible secrets about his past? Fans of Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins and John Flanagan will love John Marsden.

Incurable: The Ellie Chronicles 2

Somewhere out there Ellie and her friends are hiding. They're shocked, they're frightened, they're alone. Their world has changed, with the speed of a slamming door. They've got no weapons - except courage. They've got no help - except themselves. They've got nothing - except friendship. How strong can you be, when the world is full of people trying to kill you? Tomorrow, When the War Began is the first book in the bestselling series that has been translated and published all over the world. It is the book that started the series that became the legend...

Tomorrow, When the War Began

When a young girl's perfectly normal life suddenly becomes out-of-control, reflective writing and quiet time in a hospital is what is needed for her to get a better perspective and set things in the right direction once again. Reprint.

Checkers

tommorow when the war began

Seven teenagers go on a camping trip to a remote site in the mountains - When they return they find that the country has been invaded and taken over by foreign soldiers - Their families have disappeared - They must rely on their own resources to fight back - Book one of the series; Literature Circles Year 8.

Sequel to the award-winning TSo Much To Tell You', which covers the same period as that book through Lisa's diary, including Marina's story and the stories of other girls in the Year 9 dormintory. The author has written five other novels for adolescents, including TLetters from the Inside'.

Lisa's Journal

Take My Word for it

The world is in flames...You look behind – there's nothing but smoke. Ahead of you the future has just burst into flames.Your life is on fire. The world's an inferno.You're burning... with passion and fear, with love and rage.You're burning for revenge.Burning For Revenge is the fifth volume in the award-winning Tomorrow series.

"This wonderful book, by one of Australia's most loved and most read writers, takes Shakespeare's famous play and makes it into a moving and full-blooded novel. John Marsden follows the contours of the original but powerfully re-imagines its characters and story lines, rather as Shakespeare treated his sources."--Provided by publisher.

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