John Marsden, Author . Scholastic $16.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-439-36849-0
Like Marsden's Letters from the Inside, this engrossing Australian novel features a tough teenage heroine and puzzles aplenty. Sixteen-year-old Winter returns to Warriewood, her late parents' estate, under circumstances that only gradually...
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John Marsden, Author . Scholastic/Point $5.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-439-36850-6
In what PW
called "an engrossing novel," a 16-year-old girl returns to her late parents' estate determined to solve the riddle of their death. Ages 12-up. (Jan.)
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John Marsden, Author . Tor $16.95 (127p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1412-3
Marsden's (Tomorrow, When the War Began
) intricately woven novella (first published in Australia in 1990) will likely initially mystify and intrigue readers from the very first scene. James, a troubled Australian youth, sees faces in the...
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John Marsden, Author . Scholastic $16.99 (299p) ISBN 978-0-439-78318-7
The conflict that fractured Australia in Tomorrow, When the War Began
is over, and narrator Ellie Linton (who also narrated Tomorrow
) is trying to get back to the farmer's life. But before the first chapter of Marsden's launch title in the
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John Marsden, Author . Candlewick $16.99 (229p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4451-2
Near the end of this retelling of one of Shakespeare's most famous works, Hamlet realizes he doesn't want to create a new world, he just wants to “tweak it a little.” Indeed, Australian author Marsden (Out of Time
) retains the
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John Marsden, Author Laurel Leaf Library $5.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-440-21951-4
A chilling psychological drama plays out in the correspondence between two teenage girls. ""The heart-wrenching conclusion will exert its power long after this book is read,"" said PW in a starred review. Ages 12-up. (May)
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John Marsden, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (288p) ISBN 978-0-395-83734-4
This action-filled sequel to the Australian import Tomorrow, When the War Began picks up just where its predecessor left off-and the reader will need to do likewise; for the uninitiated, the background may unfold too slowly. In conversational tones...
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John Marsden, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (278p) ISBN 978-0-618-07026-8
The adventures of five Australian teenagers continue in the sixth installment in the Tomorrow series, The Night Is for Hunting by John Marsden. While trying to care for a group of ungrateful orphans, Ellie and her friends struggle to survive ...
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John Marsden, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (344p) ISBN 978-0-618-07028-2
A crop of sequels and series additions greet fans this fall. Australian author John Marsden's The Other Side of Dawn brings his Tomorrow series to its dramatic conclusion. Bestsellers in Australia, the seven-book series revolves around a...
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John Marsden, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (160p) ISBN 978-0-395-68985-1
Readers will find themselves quickly absorbed in this chilling epistolary novel. A correspondence between two contemporary Australian girls begins harmlessly enough, when Mandy (``I know what I won't do, and that's tell you my star sign, favourite...
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John Marsden, Author Laurel Leaf Library $5.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-440-21985-9
Australian friends return from a camping trip in the outback to discover that enemy forces have invaded the country and imprisoned everyone in town. A gripping tale, told with Marsden's customary incisiveness. Ages 12-up. (Dec.)
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John Marsden, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15 (122p) ISBN 978-0-395-85754-0
This determinedly grim novel is less compelling than most of the Australian writer's previous books (Letters from the Inside), even though it shares their angry energy and capacity to shock. The focus splits between teenage patients in a psychiatric
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John Marsden, Author Laurel Leaf Library $4.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-440-22771-7
In this sequel to Tomorrow, When the War Began, the teenagers continue their guerrilla warfare against the invading foreign army. PW said, ""Though it's still a superior adventure tale, it lacks the provocative edge and hard-hitting moral challenges
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John Marsden, Author Laurel Leaf Library $4.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-440-22832-5
The trilogy about Australia under siege that started with Tomorrow, When the War Began comes to a thrill-a-minute conclusion as the teen heroes continue their guerrilla tactics against totalitarian foes. Ages 12-up. (Oct.)
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John Marsden, Author Star Bright Books $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-887734-42-4
Like the traditional Irish blessing (""May the road rise up to meet you./ May the wind be always at your back""), the form that Marsden chooses for his modern prayer is a lyrical litany: ""May the road be free for the journey,/ May it lead where it...
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John Marsden, Author, Shaun Tan, Illustrator , illus. by Shaun Tan. Simply Read $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-9688768-8-6
In this sobering allegory of colonization, Napoleonic white rabbits subjugate a population of gentle brown marsupials. The lemur-like narrators live humbly in an arid region ("At first we didn't know what to think. They looked a bit like us&#
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