John Marsden
Author
Series
Ellie chronicles volume 3
Description
The Ellie Chronicles, the follow-up to the Tomorrow series, tells of post-invasion Australia as witnessed by teenage Ellie. In this final installment, Ellie's responsibility for her surrogate brother Gavin is threatened by both enemy forces and the government and she finds herself fighting both but on different fields of battle.
Author
Series
Tomorrow series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive.
Author
Series
Tomorrow series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
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.
Author
Series
Tomorrow series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
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.
5) Checkers
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Speaking from a mental hospital, a teenage girl recounts the tremendous media pressure that preceded the breaking scandal of her father's unethical business dealings.
Author
Series
Tomorrow series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Ellie and her friends are going on the offensive now, attacking the enemy on land and water. To sabotage the containersip at Cobbler's Bay, they'll need stealth and a very big explosion.
Author
Series
Tomorrow series volume 7
Pub. Date
2007, c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Ellie and her friends, five Australian teenagers who survived the enemy invasion of their country, use guerrilla tactics to support a major counterattack by New Zealand troops.
Author
Series
Tomorrow series volume 5
Pub. Date
2006, c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
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.
Author
Series
Tomorrow series volume 2
Pub. Date
2006, c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Six determined Australian teenagers try to find their missing friends while continuing to resist the enemies who have invaded their country.
12) Winter
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Winter, a 16-year-old girl in Australia, faces her family's tragic past in order to move ahead with her own future.
Author
Pub. Date
1995.
Description
"For the modern secular historian, the raid on the holy island of Lindisfarne in A.D. 793 serves merely as the hallmark of the birth of the Viking Age. In its own world and time, though, that raid came as nothing short of a cataclysm: the Apocalypse made real on the sands of Northumbria." "In the following years, those same sea-raiders, known to history as the Vikings or the Northmen, struck much farther down the coasts of Britain and Ireland. Their...
15) Lost & found
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Three stories explore how we lose and find what matters most to us, as a girl finds a bright spot in a dark world, a boy leads a strange, lost being home, and a group of peaceful creatures loses its home to cruel invaders.
16) The Rabbits
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Uses rabbits, a species introduced to Australia, to represent an allegory of the arrival of Europeans in Australia and the widespread environmental destruction caused by man throughout the continent. A sophisticated picture book. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.