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12 15 y separately published work icon The Dead of the Night John Marsden , ( trans. Molly van Gelder with title Het holst van de nacht ) Haarlem : Gottmer , 2005 Z91026 1994 single work novel young adult

'Hell is still the safest place on earth.

'When you've run out of choices, you've only got yourself.

'As war rages, as the enemy closes in, as Ellie and her friends fight for their lives, they are left with nothing. Nothing but courage, spirit and pride' (Source: bookseller's website).
7 7 y separately published work icon The Other Side of Dawn John Marsden , ( trans. Molly van Gelder with title Een andere kant van vrijheid ) Haarlem : Gottmer , 2003 Z531693 1999 single work novel young adult Ellie and her friends, five Australian teenagers who survived the enemy invasion of their country, use guerrilla tactics to support a major counterattack by New Zealand troops. (Source: Trove)
9 7 y separately published work icon Burning for Revenge John Marsden , ( trans. Molly van Gelder with title Het uur van de wraak ) Haarlem : Gottmer , 2002 Z416123 1997 single work novel young adult 'When you're on your knees there's only one thing to do ... stand up again! Ellie and her friends have stared defeat in the face. They have felt its hot breath.They have been bashed and battered by it, brought to breaking point. Now it's time to hit back. Now it's time to come out fighting. Now they really are "Burning for Revenge!"' (Source: Trove)
8 7 y separately published work icon Darkness, Be My Friend John Marsden , ( trans. Molly van Gelder with title De avond valt ) Haarlem : Gottmer , 2001 Z8027 1996 single work novel young adult As survivors of an enemy invasion of their homeland, Ellie and her friends return to Australia as guides for soldiers from New Zealand who plan an attack on the Wirrawee airfield. (Source: Trove)
11 21 y separately published work icon The Third Day, The Frost John Marsden , ( trans. Molly van Gelder with title Een kille dageraad ) Haarlem : Gottmer , 2000 Z543366 1995 single work novel young adult

What's the biggest danger you can think of? This is bigger. What's the toughest challenge you can imagine? This is tougher. What's the greatest fear you have? You're about to find out.

"How long do you think they'll keep looking for us?" I asked Lee, as we lay there.

"Until they find us," he answered grimly.

They came in summer. They fell upon the land swiftly and suddenly. Through autumn they spread, like locusts, like mice, like a plague. Now it's winter. They're still here. But so too are Ellie and Homer and their friends. (Source: Trove)
4 22 y separately published work icon Blueback Tim Winton , ( trans. Molly van Gelder with title Blauwrug : Een Fabel Voor Alle Leeftijden ) Breda : Uitgeverij de Geus , 1998 Z935140 1997 single work children's fiction children's 'Abel Jackson loves to dive. He's a natural in the water. He can't remember a time when he couldn't use a mask and snorkel to glide down into the clear deep. Life is tough out at Longboat Bay. Every day the boy helps his mother earn their living from the sea and the land. It's hard work but Abel has the bush and the sky and the bay to himself. Until the day he meets Blueback, the fish that changes his life. An ecological novel on a boy who protects a fish from property developers and rapacious fishermen. The boy befriends the fish, a blue grouper while diving for abalone, his family's trade. Blueback is about people learning from nature.' (Source: Trove)
2 9 y separately published work icon Mr Enigmatic Jenny Pausacker , ( trans. Molly van Gelder with title Het vroege werk van Rhett Foley ) Haarlem : Gottmer , 1997 Z542536 1994 single work novel young adult
11 65 y separately published work icon The Riders Tim Winton , ( trans. Molly van Gelder with title De ruiters ) Breda : Uitgeverij de Geus , 1997 Z295967 1994 single work novel (taught in 3 units)

Fred Scully is in another country, a 'desert Irishman' far from home. After two long years of travelling through Europe, he decided to move his family from Australia to western Ireland. Scully arrived weeks ahead of his family to renovate the old farmhouse they'd bought in the shadow of a castle in County Offally, and which he's renovated by hand. Now, at the gate of Shannon's international airport, he anxiously awaits the arrival of his pregnant wife and seven-year-old daughter, envisioning a new life ahead, a fresh start. He has waited for and worried about this for months. He is a man who does not like being alone. The plane lands, the glass doors to the terminal slide open and his daughter emerges. Alone. There is no note, no word of explanation from his wife, only the mute silence of his stunned child. In an instant, Scully's life goes down in flames. This is a story of a marriage in our time. So begins a love-crazed odyssey across Europe, to the underside of the male psyche, in search of a woman vanished.

(Adapted from Trove)
2 13 y separately published work icon The House Guest Eleanor Nilsson , ( trans. Molly van Gelder with title De huisvriend ) Amsterdam : Uitgeverij Jenny de Jong , 1995 Z574410 1991 single work novel young adult A teenage boy who robs houses with a group of school friends, forms a strange attachment to an old house and a dog, and unwittingly solves the mystery of a missing boy.
14 41 y separately published work icon Tomorrow, When the War Began When the War Began John Marsden , ( trans. Molly van Gelder with title Morgen toen de oorlog begon ) Amsterdam : Jenny de Jonge , 1995 Z796506 1993 single work novel young adult (taught in 1 units) Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive. (Source: Trove)
7 157 y separately published work icon Cloudstreet Tim Winton , ( trans. Molly van Gelder with title Cloudstreet : kroniek van twee families ) Amsterdam : Amber , 1992 Z204365 1991 single work novel (taught in 16 units) 'From separate catastrophes two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again from scratch. For twenty years they roister and rankle, laugh and curse until the roof over their heads becomes a home for their hearts.' (Source: Publisher's website)
5 34 y separately published work icon In the Winter Dark Tim Winton , ( trans. Molly van Gelder with title In het holst van de winter ) Amsterdam : Amber , 1991 Z375616 1988 single work novel horror (taught in 2 units)

'Night falls. In a lonely valley called the Sink, four people prepare for a quiet evening. Then in his orchard, Murray Jaccob sees a moving shadow. Acorss the swamp, his neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside her. And on the verandah of the Stubbses’ house, a small dog is torn screaming from its leash by something unseen. Nothing will ever be the same again. ' (Publication summary)
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