Australia Adventure

Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915 they know that that there is more to winning a war than courage. The Gallipoli campaign has been lost. Nipper has played cricket with the Turks in the opposing dugout, dodged rocket fire and rescued drowning, freezing men when the blizzard snow melted. He is one of the few trusted with the secret kept from even most of the officers: how an entire army will vanish from the Peninsula over three impeccably planned nights.

Too-Sweet, a southern girl with a yen for adventure, flees Japan and lands in the sun-kissed embrace of Queensland, Australia. Ten miles north of Cairns, she stumbles into a wild business venture with her Yakuza partner and an endearingly shady Japanese counterfeiter. Their shopping list? A crocodile farm, a jungle boat, a twenty-unit motel, and—wait a giant bar. But this isn’t just any bar. Too-Sweet christens it, The Naked Pygmy, because apparently, in Australia, dwarf tossing at bars is a national sport. And why not? It’s a land where kangaroos box, wombats moonwalk, and emus have ...

Stupsi spielte wieder mit seinen Brüdern, aber ihn drückte schon wieder das Fernweh. Er überlegte, in Österreich, Frankreich und Afrika war er schon, warum nicht mal nach Australien. Also packte er sein Bündel und verabschiedete sich von seiner Familie. Er wusste nicht, dass das größtes Abenteuer wird. Aber hört selbst. Viel Spaß.

Though Anders and his friends have delayed a war between the ice wolves and scorch dragons, their mission isn't over. With adults on both sides looking for them, they've sought refuge in Cloudhaven, a forbidden stronghold created by the first dragonsmiths. The ancient text covering Cloudhaven's walls could be the key to saving their home - if only the young elementals could decipher it.

You'd better listen to this book right now...OR ELSE!

Man-eating sharks will eat anything-including Terry's underpants.

Sometimes, only a kid can save the day.... Star athlete Josh and computer prodigy Madison begin the adventure of a lifetime when they discover the Small World Global Protection Agency. The GPA is a secret organization dedicated to helping other kids and saving the day when adults can’t. In New Kids on the Rock, their first mission takes them to Australia, where they go from the Outback to the top of the Sydney Opera House!