John Marsden Burning For Revenge (book 5)
The summer storms are the wildest. Maybe that’s because they’re so unexpected. But they can really rip a place apart. It’s like the sky saves it all up, then lets it go in one huge blast. The air shakes. There’s nothing soft or gentle about the rain: it pours down, a huge heavy torrent that
wets you to the skin in half a minute. The...
John Marsden Darkness, Be My Friend (book 4).
It takes place several months later. The group is trying to live a normal life in New Zealand with other refugees, but are haunted by their memories of the war (which is still ongoing). They are approached by the New Zealand Defence Force, who are seeking Australian guerrillas to act as guides for saboteur units that are being...
John Marsden The Dead of The Night (book 2)
In the wake of losing Corrie and Kevin, and not knowing how either of them are faring in enemy territory, the group's morale deteriorates. Homer suggests the group attempt to track down Corrie and Kevin. They release a smoke bomb into the hospital and investigate during the evacuation. They discover that Corrie is comatose and that...
John Marsden The Night is For Hunting (book 6)
It was hot and dusty. The sun sat up there all day without moving. It saw everything and it forgave nothing. Sometimes it seemed like you were alone in the world, you and the sun, and at those times you could understand why people in the old days feared and worshipped it.
John Marsden The Other Side Of Dawn (book 7)
The noise of a helicopter at night fills the whole world. Your ears rattle with the sound. Your other senses haven’t got a hope. Oh of course you can still see, and smell, and feel. You see the dark shape of the chopper dropping like a huge March fly, with just two thin white lights checking
the ground below. You smell the fumes of...
John Marsden The Third Day, The Frost (book 3)
Sometimes I think I’d rather be frightened than bored. At least when you’re frightened you know you’re alive. Energy pumps through your body so hard that it overflows as sweat. Your heart – your heart that does the pumping – bangs away in your chest like an old windmill on a stormy night. There’s no room for anything else. You forget...
John Marsden Tomorrow, When The War Began (book 1) Ellie Linton goes out camping in the bush for a week with her friends Homer Yannos, Lee Takkam, Kevin Holmes, Corrie Mackenzie, Robyn Mathers, and Fiona Maxwell. They find a way into a large, vegetated sinkhole in a remote area of bush the locals have dubbed "Hell", and camp there. During this time they see large numbers of...
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