The follow-up to the bestselling Tomorrow seriesBOOK 3 IN THE ELLIE CHRONICLES TRILOGY"Addictive reading" Sydney Morning Herald"Australia's king of young adult fiction" The Australian"Skilfully paced, brimming with well-rounded characters whom you can believe in" The AgeYou jam on the brakes and stop the ute right at your front door. Yo...

The follow-up to the bestselling Tomorrow seriesBOOK 2 IN THE ELLIE CHRONICLES TRILOGY"Addictive reading" Sydney Morning Herald"Australia's king of young adult fiction" The AustralianPacked 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...

When Ellie and six of her friends return home from a camping trip deep in the bush, they find things hideously wrong -- their families gone, houses empty and abandoned, pets and stock dead. Gradually they begin to comprehend that their country has been invaded and everyone in the town has been taken prisoner. As the horrible reality of the situation becomes evident they have to make a life-and-death decision: to run back into the bush and hide, to give themselves up to be with their famili...

A riveting story of courage, hope and extraordinary adventure."You will hardly read a more fascinating account of a convict's voyage to Australia" Australian Book ReviewThirteen-year-old Barnaby Fletch is a bag-and-bones orphan in London in the late 1700s.Barnaby lives on his wits and ill-gotten gains, on streets seething with the press of the throng and shadowed by sinister figures. Life is a precarious business.Wh...

From the multi-award winning and bestselling author behind the Tomorrow seriesStaying Alive in Year 5 is a monster hit for primary school readers from one of Australia's most popular storytellers, John Marsden.Scott and his friends are simply staying alive in year 5 until their surprising new teacher, Mr Murlin, comes along.Boring textbooks go into the bin, eating chocolate in class becomes compulsory and suddenly it's OK to be wei...

John Marsden is not just one of Australia's most successful writers of all time; he's also one of our best teachers of writing."Highly recommended" Sun Herald"The most exciting, interesting and useful book on the teaching of writing" Australian English TeacherThe ultimate "get off your bum and do it" book, Everything I Know About Writing will motivate anyone to write. It's...

"Australia's king of young adult fiction" The AustralianLisa 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 Lisa, remote and private Lisa, has more going on in her life than anyone imagines.Only her journal knows the truth about her life. Only her journal - and you.Fans of Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins and John Flanaga...

When Tracey and Mandy first became pen pals, they never guessed that they would soon discover the darkest secrets of each other's troubled lives.

Through most of eight hundred years, Somerled of Argyll has been variously denounced as an intractable rebel against his rightful king and esteemed as the honoured ancestor of the later medieval Lord of the Isles, but he can be recognised now as a much more complex figure of major prominence in twelfth-century Scotland and of truly landmark significance in the long history of the Gael. In this book individual chapters investigate his emergence in the forefront of the Gaelic-Norse aristocra...

From the mutli-award winning and bestselling author of the Tomorrow series."Australia's king of young adult fiction" The AustralianYou 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 chance of getting there.The last thing you expect is to have action all around you, dangerous strangers in the backyard and bullets flyi...

The town of Wirrawee is emerging from war, slowly. School's back in, Juicy's is open for coffee, farmers are bidding at the cattle sales. Ellie Linton at last gets what she longed for and what she fought for, to be back on the farm with her parents. But it's not the same. A new nation is on the other side of a new border. Suddenly the war is about to explode into Ellie's life again. The effects are devastating. The consequences will change her forever.

They are the enemy. And they're still out there. They're in your street, your home, the safest places you know. You feel their hot breath ... even in the depths of hell. Ellie and Homer are out there too. Lee and Fi and Kevin. They've forgotten what it means to be safe. Sometimes they feel like there's nowhere left for them. They may be right.