18 books like Walkabout
A killing frost (Tomorrow #3)
The Australian YA adventure trilogy "comes to a thrill-a-minute conclusion as the teen heroes continue their guerrilla tactics against totalitarian foes" (Publishers Weekly).
 
It's been nearly six months since Australia was invaded and Ellie's life changed forever. Once normal teenagers, she and six of her friends are now trapped in a war zone where every moment is a struggle for survival.…
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The Night is for Hunting
Hell’s a big place, but it gets crowded when Ellie and her friends take an uncooperative crew of orphans under their wing and into their hidden refuge. It’s not easy to keep four young children busy and happy in the bush, and things only get worse when Ellie and Homer find evidence that mysterious visitors have discovered their sanctuary. Could it be a patrol of enemy soldiers sent on a search…
Shares: Australia, Child and youth fiction, Young Adult, Children's fiction
Burning for Revenge
From Hell to Stratton isn’t an easy trip, especially when the enemy’s headquarters lies somewhere in between. And that’s exactly where Ellie and her friends unwillingly find themselves—smack in the middle of the Wirrawee airfield. With only five of them against hundreds of armed soldiers, escape seems like a suicide mission. The odds aren’t good, and Kevin’s nervous breakdown isn’t helping…
Shares: Australia, Child and youth fiction, Young Adult, Children's fiction
Darkness, be my friend (Tomorrow #4)
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.
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Camel Rider
'Do you know why you are here?  Unbeliever?'  Jaz swung round.  In the shadows of a doorway stood a young man.Life in a small town is kind of predictable for Jaz.  The only thing that keeps him challenged is his karate – until one day, everything changes.At first, going to Abudai seems like a wonderful dream, but Jaz is soon embroiled in dangerous family politics, made even…
Shares: Deserts, Child and youth fiction, Survival, Children's fiction
Tomorrow, When the War Began
When Ellie and six of her friends return home from a camping trip deep in the bush, they find things hideously wrong -- their families gone, houses empty and abandoned, pets and stock dead. Gradually they begin to comprehend that their country has been invaded and everyone in the town has been taken prisoner. As the horrible reality of the situation becomes evident they have to make a…
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Dead of the night (Tomorrow #2)
Six determined Australian teenagers try to find their missing friends while continuing to resist the enemies who have invaded their country.
Shares: Australia, Survival, Children's fiction
When the war began (Tomorrow #1)
This is a great book for young teens/adults it has a few inappropriate seen's for younger people but other than that it is great
I Give it 5/5 stars
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Burning for revenge (Tomorrow #5)
Having been separated from the New Zealand rescue troops they were guiding, five Australian teenagers continue their resistance against the unknown enemy invading their homeland.
Shares: Australia, Survival, Adventure, Children's fiction
The night is for hunting (Tomorrow #6)
While trying to care for a group of abandoned young children, five Australian teenagers continue their struggle for survival and their resistance against the enemy invading their homeland.
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Erak's Ransom (Ranger's Apprentice #7)
What does it mean to earn the Silver Oakleaf? So few men have done so. For Will, a mere boy, that symbol of honor has long felt out of reach. Now, in the wake of Araluen's uneasy truce with the raiding Skandians comes word that the Skandian leader has been captured by a dangerous desert tribe. The Rangers are sent to free him. But the desert is like nothing these warriors have seen before.…
Shares: Deserts, Children's fiction
Ashes
Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.
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Paul the Peddler
Young Paul is determined to win a better life for his mother, and he sets out on a whirlwind of entrepreneurial jobs to try to make a good living. From selling candy packages outside the post office to neckties from a cart, he will try his hand at anything to turn a profit. A rousing tale of moral triumph and free trade, "Paul the Peddler" is Horatio Alger at his best.
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The infects
Sixteen-year-old Nick "Nero" Sole is stuck in the woods with the other kids who have survived when zombies attack and their horror-movie nightmares come to life.
Seventeen-year-old Nero, stuck in the wilderness with other juvenile delinquents, find that his counselors have turned into flesh-eating maniacs and are now chowing down on his fellow miscreants. The plot contains pervasive profanity…
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The drowned cities
In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her.
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Skyward
SPENSA'S WORLD HAS BEEN UNDER ATTACK FOR DECADES.
Now pilots are the heroes of what's left of the human race, and becoming one has always been Spensa's dream. Since she was a little girl, she has imagined soaring skyward and proving her bravery. But her fate is intertwined with her father's--a pilot himself who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team, leaving Spensa the daughter…
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The other side of dawn (Tomorrow #7)
The Other Side of Dawn is the long-awaited, riveting, final title in the Tomorrow series about a group of teenagers in war-torn Australia. Since their home was invaded by enemy soldiers and transformed into a war zone, Ellie and her friends have been fighting for their lives. They have learned survival skills out of necessity and taken care of each other through impossibly dark times. Now, with a…
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The Fear (The Enemy #3)
The sickness struck everyone sixteen and over. Mothers and fathers, older brothers, sisters, and best friends. No one escaped its touch. And now children across London are being hunted by ferocious grown-ups who are hungry, bloodthirsty, and not giving up.
DogNut and the rest of his crew, in search of the friends they lost during the fire, set off on a deadly mission from the Tower of London to…
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