Explores the continent of Australia including its history, environment, culture, and entertainment. Provides color photographs, informative text, a glossary of terms, and a list of resources for further information.
Color photos and Web site addresses fill this overview of Australia, which describes the continent's land, climate, geography, animals, peoples, industries, and culture. Also includes a glossary.
On a scorching hot summer day in Preston, Australia, Spike and Bubba go for a swim in the old water tower which casts a long dark shadow across everything in the area.
Twelve-year-old Henni Octon relates the details of the adventure that ensued when a group of local children set out to expose a neighborhood couple they believed to be criminals.
While helping a beautiful Aboriginal girl search for her people's missing treasure near the Great Barrier Reef, seventeen-year-old PC finds himself fighting an evil scientist and a deadly underwater monster.
Text, photographs, and maps introduce information about the climate, land use, resources, plants and animals, population, politics, and religions of Australia, New Zealand, and the islands of the South Pacific.
