Thiele, Colin

A young boy is caught in a dilemma when his friend, an old hermit, is accused of burning down their small Australian farming community.

A boy living on a desolate beach in Australia rescues a baby pelican that becomes his constant companion.

A lighthouse, a whimbrel, and an old man help a young girl accept the meaning of change.

A boy living on a desolate beach in Australia rescues a baby pelican that becomes his constant companion.

An offshore oil well provokes mixed reactions from the people of a southern Australian fishing village, provides a fascinating job for fourteen-year-old Link Banks, and threatens ecological disaster when it blows out.

Robby, a new kid in Twilight where ghosts roam freely, becomes convinced that the ghost of a girl in white is out to get him, but that does not stop him from accepting a dare to enter the scary old Children's Home--the most haunted of all the haunted places in town.

The lives of three Australian children are cruelly affected when a bushfire known as the February Dragon sweeps across the countryside.

Twelve-year-old Jodie, disabled by juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and no longer able to ride her beloved horse Monarch, faces a crisis when the two of them are alone at her remote Australia home and a devastating fire approaches.

Two fourteen-year-old cousins join a group of fishermen in pursuit of a massive shark off the coast of Southern Australia.

After the growing traffic from the nearby city turns the road next to their Australian farm into a dangerous highway, Farmer Schulz's youngest daughter Anna solves the problem of how to get her family's ducks safely across the road every day.