A desperate letter from his grandfather prompts Patrick McWaid and his family to return to Boomerang Bend, where the Lady Elisabeth still rests on the bottem of the river.
In late nineteenth-century Australia, as tension mounts between white settlers and a band of aborigines at Dingo Creek, thirteen-year-old Patrick takes sides when he helps teach the aborigines to play cricket.
In Australia in 1868, twelve-year-old Patrick, continues to search for his missing father, who has been convicted of a crime he did not commit and has been forced into hiding out in the bush.
In Australia, having settled with their family in a kind but mysterious riverboat captain's shantyhouse, twelve-year-old Patrick and his older sister Becky, are captured by bushrangers.
When twelve-year-olds Austin and Ashley Webster are accidentally scanned into the Internet, they must follow the most unlikely links to survive, and to make it back home.
After jumping inside the World Wide Web, Austin and Drew try to hide from Mr. Z, who wants to wipe out truth on the internet. Ashley and Aunt Jessica try to mount a rescue, but they have their own menace...a tornado!.
Twelve-year-old Austin and Ashley Webster slip into the World Wide Web to research a school project and discover a frightening virus unleashed by a hacker.