New boyfriends, worries about final exams and the future, and a possible eating disorder transform best friends Nat, Lise, and Sofia during their last year at a private high school in South Australia.
With the approach of the tenth anniversary of the time she was held hostage in a fast food restaurant, nineteen-year-old Freda Opperman struggles to make sense of her memories of the event and how they have shaped her life.
Seventeen-year-old Jamie Riley, sentenced to spend two years in foster care for car theft, is sent to live in the remote Australian town of Port Barren where he soon becomes caught up in solving the mystery that has haunted the town for years.
Presents the saga of the Cleary family, beginning on an Australian sheep station in the early twentieth century and ending fifty years later, focusing on the forbidden love that develops between Meggie and Father Ralph de Bricassart.
Describes Australia's history, landscape, plants, animals, people, city and country life, schools, languages, work, food, pastimes, and holidays, and presents a fact list, a list of local words and phrases, the national song, and a recipe.
A patch of ground in Australia, formed millions of years ago, endures constant changes, outlasting the elements and the plants, animals, and people that come and go around it.
Student essays, scholarship committee members' notes, and other writings reveal interactions between a group of modern-day students at an exclusive New South Wales high school and their strange connection to a young Irishman transported to Australia in the early 1800s.
a continent, a scientist, and a search for the world's most extraordinary creature
Flannery, Tim F
2007
The author describes his research and field work in relation to the evolution of the Australian kangaroo; and recalls his encounters with ancient aboriginal cultures, fossil hunters, and scientists.
Sequel to: Rites of passage. Recounts the further adventures of the eighteenth-century fighting ship, converted at the close of the Napoleonic War to carry passengers and cargo from England to Australia.
