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John Marsden
Somewhere out there Ellie and her friends are hiding. The first book in the bestselling the Tomorrow series.
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This remarkable novel, now an established classic, is based on a true story. It was awarded the Children’s Book Council Book of the Year Award in 1988, the Victorian Premier’s…
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Winter is sixteen. It’s time to come home.For twelve years Winter has been haunted. Her past, her memories, her feelings, will not leave her alone. And now, at sixteen, the…
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Lisa Morris could be the girl next door. She could be your cousin. She could be sitting behind you in class. She could be you. But Lisa, cool and beautiful…
Tony and his friends are seriously bored with their lives so they go ‘looking for trouble’. But then they find it.
The ultimate get off your bum and do it book, Everything I Know About Writing will motivate anyone to write. It’s a lively funny guide to writing, as readable as…
Hell is still the safest place on earth.When you’ve run out of choices, you’ve only got yourself.As war rages, as the enemy closes in, as Ellie and her friends fight…
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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…
A manifesto on all aspects of growing up - from parenting and education to the role of literature and imagination - by one of Australia’s most passionate and experienced educators…
Alice Pung
In this fascinating book, Alice Pung writes about one of her deep influences - the much-loved and hugely successful John Marsden.
Dear Tracey I don’t know why I’m answering your ad, to be honest. It’s not like I’m into pen pals, but it’s a boring Sunday here, everyone’s out, and I…
Be careful in this book. You could find yourself up to your ankles in blood, being stalked by a skeleton … or worse!
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…
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…
Wirrawee is emerging from war, slowly. For Ellie Linton, being back on the farm with her parents is what makes the terrible things that happened during the war all worthwhile…
She has parents, a brother, friends and a dog.Sometimes the dog seems like the only one she can trust.Her life is about to fall apart.The dog is Checkers.The book is…
You move into the most boring street in the most boring town in Australia. Tarrawagga is a hole. Its only ambition is to be a crater, and it has every…
Scott and his friends are just staying alive until new teacher Mr Murlin arrives. Suddenly, it’s OK to be weird.
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…
Nowhere to run; one place left to hide. You’re running from bullets through the streets of your own town. Your life’s on the line and no-one’s there to help.
Hunting and being hunted.Sometimes life seems to offer nothing more than a chase to the death. The fight to survive has never been fiercer.But as they wage war, Ellie and…
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…
Take Risks is the compelling memoir of a revered author and educator, and a forthright discussion on teaching, parenting and society as a whole.
A rich and haunting allegory for all ages, all cultures.
Thought-provoking text, illustrated by internationally-acclaimed artist Shaun Tan. The rabbits came many grandparents ago. They built houses, made roads, had children. They cut down trees. A whole continent of rabbits…
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A dramatic picture book for older readers that poses the question - what would happen if a typical Australian family found themselves refugees?
John Taylor
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
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John Noell Moore
John Marsden is the best known of all contemporary Australian writers for young adults. A master storyteller, Marsden’s 7-volume Tomorrow Series has become a landmark in Australian YA fiction, capturing…
Life is a thrilling adventure. Our children get only rare glimpses of the possibilities. To roam, to dare, to fail?… these are the rights of children.
John Marsden, the award-winning…
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
When Ellie and her friends go camping for a week, they return home to find their country has been invaded. Ellie and the other survivors face an impossible decision: They…
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Several years ago over 100 well-known Australians tackled the biggest question of all, exploring their personal truths, in a collection of essays. The world has changed and the author asks…
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‘I don’t know what I’m doing here. Well, I do really I have been sent here to learn to talk again. Sent here because my mother can’t stand my silent…
They thought they had escaped, Ellie and her friends. Airlifted away from the conflict, they thought they’d be free - in spite of everything they’d lost. Three dead; their families…
The first John Marsden in five years!
Walk around Manchester city centre today and it is difficult to appreciate that in the nineteenth century you would never have been more than a few minutes walk from a…
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Investigates Somerled of Argyll’s emergence in the forefront of the Gaelic-Norse aristocracy of the western seaboard, his part in Gaeldom’s challenge to the Canmore kings of Scots, his war on…
Ellie and her compatriots are back, battling to stay alive and struggling to stay together in Marsden’s latest book in the Tomorrow, When the War Began series. High-speed chases, unexpected…
