Fifteen-year-old Cal continues to survive the 365 day countdown as a fugitive, enduring a train catastrophe, unrelenting cops and criminal gangs, and being thwarted at every turn while trying to solve the mystery of the attack on his family.
With help from their cousin Harry, eight-year-old twins Ella and Ethan discover who is illegally taking coral from the reefs near their aunt and uncle's beach house on the shore of Australia's Coral Sea.
A picture book version of the story of Guy Haydon and his horse Midnight, who joined the Australian Light Horse during World War I and took part in one of the last great cavalry charges in history.
Australia is a land of extremesfrom the bustling city of Sydney to the wild lands of the outback. Learning about this land allows readers to explore important topics in both social studies and math curricula. As they read, they use fun facts and stats to solve math problems, which can then be checked with a comprehensive answer key. Readers also explore colorful maps of the continent that are designed to enhance their geography skills. Colorful photographs of life in Australia are presented in an eye-catching way designed to hold the interest of readers.
Learn about Australia's land and climate, plants and animals, natural resources, goods and services, indigenous peoples, cultural groups, arts and entertainment, sports, politics and government, and much more!.
Friday Brown and her mother Vivienne live their lives on the road, but when Vivienne dies from cancer, seventeen-year-old Friday decides to search for the father she never knew. Her journey takes her to a slum of orphans and runaways ruled by a charismatic leader named Arden. Now Friday can run from confrontation, or stay and fight for those she has come to love.
After his favorite uncle's violent death, Tom Mackee watches his family implode, quits school, and turns his back on music and everyone who matters, and while he is in no shape to mend what is broken, he fears that no one else is, either.
Friendship, love, and a mystery fill the life-changing summer of fifteen-year-old Sky, who lives with her unconventional family in a run-down record store in St. Kilda, a seaside suburb of Melbourne, Australia.
