Tells the story of a cabin boy called Jan Pelgrom and a soldier involved in a notorious mutiny after the shipwreck of the Batavia off Western Australia in 1629.
Told in alternating voices, an all-night adventure featuring Lucy, who is determined to find an elusive graffiti artist named Shadow, and Ed, the last person Lucy wants to spend time with, except for the fact that he may know how to find Shadow.
Clementine and her cousin Fan both grow up in 1950s Australia but have very different lives, Clementine coming from a stable, city family and Fan from a broken, country home, and their destinies are also strikingly divergent.
Mahtab, forced to flee her home in Herat with her family, journeys with them to Pakistan and on to Australia, wondering if she will ever have a home again, and whether her father will be able to join them.
In a rural Australian coal mining town shortly after World War II, teenaged Eddie makes a startling discovery when he investigates the murder of a local high school girl.
Fourteen-year-old Joseph reluctantly agrees to draw a portrait of his reclusive neighbor, Tom, for a class assignment, and over time, like the silkworms Tom raises, both men come out of their cocoons and face their fears.
Party girl Suzy Green's efforts to change her image following the death of her older sister Rosie backfire when she joins the virginity club at her new school in order to fit in with the cool crowd, only to have Ryan--her old boyfriend and onetime lover--show up.
Sixteen-year-old Lucy, living in the shadow of her violent father, experiences a night of tenderness, danger, and revelation as she and Jake, her fifteen-year-old neighbor, search for a legendary wolf in the Australian outback.
Seventeen-year-old Kate O'Farrell records her thoughts and experiences in a series of secret notebooks, hoping to make sense of life and maybe discover her own destiny.
