As one dry day follows another in the Australian outback, everyone and everything is waiting for the rain, which seems as though it will never come.
Oceania
Materials from Oceania
Keeper Of The Night
Thirteen-year-old Isabel, a girl living on the island of Guam, and her family try to cope with the suicide of Isabel’s mother.
The Magic Pudding
Bunyip Bluegum, an adventurous Australian koala bear, meets up with a sailor, a penguin, and their magic pudding, which is in constant danger of being stolen.
Darkness Be My Friend
Airlifted out of their own country to the safe haven of New Zealand after an enemy invasion of their homeland, Ellie and her friends return to Australia as guides for soldiers who plan an attack on the airfield. Fourth in the Tomorrow series.
Pete the Sheep-Sheep
The sheep-shearers in Shaggy Gully all have a sheep dog, but the new guy Shaun uses an extremely polite sheep named Pete.
Going for Oysters
An Australian aborigine family spends the weekend fishing and looking for oysters and they almost forget their grandfather’s warning about the dangers of the eastern swamp.
Looking For Alibrandi
Life becomes complicated for spirited Josephine who lives in a traditional Old World Italian community in Sydney, Australia, when the father she has never known suddenly appears, and she begins to date an Australian who is not Italian.
Turramulli The Giant Quinkin
Two children of the Yalanji people are pursued by Turramulli, the largest and fiercest of the spirits roaming the bushland.
Lizzie Nonsense: A Story Of Pioneer Days
Her mother calls it nonsense when Lizzie pretends that their house is pretty or that a bath is the sea, but it turns out that imagination runs in the family.
Stranded In Boringsville
Following her parents separation, twelve-year-old Rain moves with her mother to the country, where she befriends the unpopular boy who lives next door and also seeks a way to cope with her feelings toward her father and his new girlfriend.