australia

Discusses Australia's history, geography, government, people, and culture.

While traveling across the Australian outback on a train, twelve-year-old Zach and his younger sister Eve uncover an endangered bird smuggling ring and try to save two trains from a full-speed collision.

Full-color illustrated photographs and maps describe the history, geography, culture, religion, and people of Australia.

An illustrated introduction to the geography, history, culture, and people of Australia.

Sixteen-year-old Francesca could use her outspoken mother's help with the problems of being one of a handful of girls at a parochial school that has just turned co-ed, but her mother has suddenly become severely depressed.

During her senior year in a Catholic school in Sydney, Australia, seventeen-year-old Josie meets and must contend with the father she has never known.

A fourteen-year-old describes, through prose poems, his life in a small Australian town in 1962, where, since their mother's death, he and his brother have been mainly on their own to learn about life, death, and love.

Mary and Peter are stranded in the wilderness of the Australian outback. They meet an Aboriginal youth on a walking journey and he helps them to undergo a journey of their own in order to survive.

Describes the history, geography, government, economy, people, and culture of Australia.