Thirteen-year-old Danny Dawson lives on a cattle station in the Australian outback, where his family struggles to cope with the accidental death of his older brother a year earlier and his sister's pregnancy by an Aboriginal.
A desperate letter from his grandfather prompts Patrick McWaid and his family to return to Boomerang Bend, where the Lady Elisabeth still rests on the bottem of the river.
In late nineteenth-century Australia, as tension mounts between white settlers and a band of aborigines at Dingo Creek, thirteen-year-old Patrick takes sides when he helps teach the aborigines to play cricket.
In Australia in 1868, twelve-year-old Patrick, continues to search for his missing father, who has been convicted of a crime he did not commit and has been forced into hiding out in the bush.
In Australia, having settled with their family in a kind but mysterious riverboat captain's shantyhouse, twelve-year-old Patrick and his older sister Becky, are captured by bushrangers.
On the lonely coast of Western Australia, two thrill-seeking teenage boys fall under the spell of a veteran big-wave surfer who urges them into dangerous situations with permanent consequences.
