australia

Prolonged drought has strained Dusty's ranching family to the breaking point, but she finds consolation with her wild and beautiful horse.

Amy and Lou travel from Heartland, their horse farm in Virginia, to Australia to visit their father and meet his wife Helena and their baby sister Lily, but while Lou bonds immediately with Helena, Amy has trouble opening her heart until a reluctant horse shows her the way.

While drawing pictures of the animals she sees on her trip to Australia, a young girl named Ally meets Pauline, an aborigine woman and fellow artist, from whom Ally learns that art is not always created with just paper and paints, and that mistakes are actually happy accidents.

A brief introduction to Australia and some characteristics of Australia life.

Photographs, illustrations, maps, and simple text introduce young readers to the people and culture of Australia and its surrounding islands.

Discusses Australia, emphasizing the changes that have taken place as it has moved from an isolationist country to a force in the world community.

Four years after the murder of her brother and no arrests leads Marion to begin her own investigation.

Offers a brief introduction to the history of Australia, providing information on the country's land and people, Aboriginal culture, exploration and settlement, governments, and other topics.

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.

In 1980s Australia, nearly fourteen-year-old Ariella "Plum" Coyle fears the disapproval of her friends, feels inferior to her older brothers, and hates her awkward, adolescent body but when her glamorous neighbor befriends her, Plum starts to become what she wants to be--until she discovers her neighbor's ulterior motive.