australia

One Australian summer, two very different sixteen-year-old girls--Charlie, a talented but shy musician, and Rose, a confident student longing to escape her tiny town--are drawn into an unexpected friendship, as told in their alternating voices.

Draws on personal journals and historical documents to recount the overseas voyage of Royal Army Captain Arthur Phillip's first expedition to Australia, where he was charged with setting up a penal colony for London prisoners.

After the suicide of her troubled teenage sister, eleven-year-old Jenny struggles to understand what actually happened by studying the clues her sister left behind in a cardboard box.

During her senior year in a Catholic school in Sydney, Australia, seventeen-year-old Josie meets and must contend with the father she has never known.

In this novel based on the cases of three murderous "baby farmers" of the 1890s, a nine-year-old girl suspects that her "Mama" is not truly her mother and that the infants she has taken in lately have not died of natural causes.

Describes the geography of the continent of Australia and the plants and animals that live there.

An introduction to the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of the "land down under.".

The saga of the Cleary family, beginning on an Australian sheep station in the early twentieth century and ending fifty years later.

Text and photographs introduce the geography, people, culture, and animals of Australia.