australia

While on an assignment in Queensland, Australia, to discover the truth behind a powerful weapon known as the God Face, Modo, a teenaged, shape-changing hunchback living in Victorian London, battles the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild and makes an astounding discovery--one that hinges on Modo's true appearance.

Resentful of her poverty, a fifteen-year-old girl decides to run away, but her involvement with two rival boys leads not to a new life but a fight for survival as all three are trapped in a caved-in mine shaft.

Presents the lyrics to a song that pays tribute to the Aboriginal women who served as drover's boys in northern Australia in the early part of the twentieth century.

Wombat's continual worrying annoys the other bush animals, until they help him gain a new perspective on life.

A writing class assignment becomes the voice of Marine, a fourteen-year-old girl who has chosen not to speak in the wake of an accident that has left her disfigured and her father in jail.

Twelve-year-old Dhurgham As-Samarra'i finds himself alone at the Great Mosque in Damascas after fleeing from Iraq and becoming separated from his family.

When an archeology student, hoping to learn about his Aboriginal heritage, comes to work near their isolated village, sixteen-year-old friends Sarah and Rachel discover why the man known as the Father has had such control over their lives.

Satchel O'Rye, devoted son of an impoverished couple in a dying rural town, must weigh in balance the life of his most cherished dog and the freedom of a mysterious rare animal.