An introduction to Australia, providing information on the country's geography, history, culture, landmarks, wildlife, people, politics, and more, with maps and a time line.
Seventeen-year-old Will's behavior has been getting him in trouble at his all-boys school in Sydney, Australia, but his latest punishment, playing in the band for a musical production, gives him new insights into his fellow students and helps him cope with an incident he has tried to forget.
One Australian summer, two very different sixteen-year-old girls--Charlie, a talented but shy musician, and Rose, a confident student longing to escape her tiny town--are drawn into an unexpected friendship, as told in their alternating voices.
While Undine is away on vacation in Greece, Trout's obsession to learn whatever he can about her magical powers leads him to Maxine Haddon, a woman who will do anything to obtain the magic his friend possesses.
Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the schools.
Edmund Talbot, passenger on a ship in the Napoleonic era, chronicles its highly symbolic voyage, observing the rites of life in the shipboard societyin-miniature.
