australia

Discusses the civilizations of China, Japan, India, Indochina, Indonesia, Australia, and Oceania from the beginnings of time until about 600 A.D.

Class brain Bindy Mackenzie has alienated her entire high school but when she realizes someone is trying to kill her, she has to make friends in order to get help.

"In 2027, sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl--playing the guitar, falling in love, and protesting the wrongs of the world with her friends. But then Tegan dies, waking up 100 years in the future as the unknowing first government guinea pig to be cryogenically frozen and successfully revived. Appalling secrets about her new world come to light, and Tegan must choose to either keep her head down or fight for a better future"--Provided by publisher.

A collection of ten short stories about the supernatural and interpersonal relationships written by Australian author Margo Lanagan.

Having been separated from the New Zealand rescue troops they were guiding, five Australian teenagers continue their resistance against the unknown enemy invading their homeland.

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

Laura Horton has always been an outsider, more interested in writing, drawing, or spending time with her free-spirited family than in her fellow teens, but she is drawn to Leon, a new student, as together they explore the mysteries of her eccentric old house.

When his brother uses him as a boomerang on a beach near the Great Barrier Reef, the wind takes Flat Stanley halfway across Australia to the Outback.

The six teens of Recon Team Angel, genetically modified and having spent years mastering alien culture so that they can talk, act, and think like their enemies, now have their target in sight but time is running out to save humanity and themselves.

Mary Bryant, among the first of a wave of convicts to be transported to Australia in the late eighteenth-century, stages a daring escape in an open boat from the brutal conditions of the Botany Bay penal colony, along with her husband and two children, and seven other convicts.