australia

Over Christmas vacation, Annabel goes from her home in Manhattan to visit her father, his new wife, and her half- and step-siblings in Sydney, Australia.

Andrew, Judy, and Thudd, still the size of bugs, try to help a stranded Arctic tern and end up in the Australian rain forest which poses all kinds of problems for the minuscule trio.

Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is abducted while on vacation with her parents and taken to the Australian outback, where she soon realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed.

Contains fifteen illustrated short stories, some humorous and some haunting, set in the Australian suburbs.

Introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Australia.

Eight-year-old secret agent Adam Sharp travels to Australia where, with the assistance of Alice Springs and a washed-up TV star, he tracks down the evil mastermind behind a plan to block all television stations except his own--The Happy Channel.

While brothers Nathan and Bub Bright grieve their middle brother Cameron's loss, suspicion starts to take hold, and Nathan is forced to examine secrets the family would rather leave in the past. Because if someone forced Cameron to his death, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects.

Knowing very little English, eleven-year-old Jingwen feels like an alien when his family immigrates to Australia, but copes with loneliness and the loss of his father by baking elaborate cakes.

In 1992, eleven-year-old Tikka Malloy and her older sister Laura are shocked to learn that their friends and playmates the Van Apfel girls--Ruth, Hannah, and Cordelia--have disappeared. Perhaps they ran away from their too-strict evangelical parents, or perhaps someone kidnapped them. Years pass and their disappearance is never solved, and now the adult Tikka returns to Australia to try to make sense of what happened that summer of 1992.

Simple text and photographs introduce the foods, landforms, and animals of Australia.