Age: Oceania

Materials from Oceania

Tomorrow When The War Began

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 20, 2007

When Ellie and her friends go camping, they have no idea they’re leaving their old lives behind forever. Despite a food shortage and a secret crush or two, everything goes as planned. Before long, they realize the country has been invaded, and their entire town has been captured.

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Darkness Be My Friend

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 20, 2007

Five months into World War III, Elie and her four remaining friends have barely escaped the Australian town of Wirrawee with their lives and their sanity intact. A group of soldiers have recruited the kids to guide the way to the Wirrawee air base for a risky sabotage mission.

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Monster Blood Tattoo

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 20, 2007

Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl’s name, rossam and sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters who are more complicated that he previously thought.

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Would-Be Diary Of A Princess : The Journal Of Jillian James, 5B

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 19, 2007

In the journal her fifth-year teacher requires, Jillian records the ups and downs of her efforts to become popular as she hosts a class party, creates a school magazine, and tutors some socially misfit boys.

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The Magnificent Nose And Other Marvels

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Aristan the magic spider befriends a group of unique and resourceful children.

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The Biggest Soap

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

When Kessy, who lives in the Truk Islands, is sent by his mother to buy laundry soap, he hurries back to listen to her storytelling, discovering that his own experience makes a good story too.

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Winter Door

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

When her own world and Valley are threatened with an endless winter, Rage and her friends seek to stop the powerful Stormlord from using the despair of others to create the bleak weather.

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Space Dogs

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Commanders Belka and Strelka, of the planet Gersbach, board their dog-shaped vehicle and head for earth, where they attempt to capture two power-seeking renegades and hope to save their own planet from destruction.

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Leaving Jetty Road

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

New boyfriends, worries about final exams and the future, and a possible eating disorder transform best friends Nat, Lise, and Sofia during their last year at a private high school in South Australia.

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Dream Time: New Stories By Sixteen Award-Winning Authors

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A collection of sixteen short stories, produced by asking authors recognized or awarded by the Australian Book Council to write on the theme of ‘Dream Time.’

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