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Circle of Flight (2007)

All finished! 10 books (well 3 in this series and 7 in the tomorrow series)Kinda sad now, I really did love this series, all the adventures and 'close calls'. John did an amazing job and a great finish I got to end and was amazed of how fast I sped through it! Had me hooked. Spoiler- I knew it! I...

Circle of Flight (2007) by John Marsden
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Hamlet (2008)

I loved this one! Thank you to my friend Beejay for lending me this fantastic book. I have not read Shakespeare's version but feel I might have the confidence to do so now that I have an understanding of the story. What a man Mr M is, this book is a quick read, I didn't want to put it down - t...

Hamlet (2008) by John Marsden
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Darkness, Be My Friend (2006)

I have this little aversion to buying more than one book in a series at a time. What if I end up with, for example, books two, three and four, but I don’t like one of them? Chances are I’ll dislike the next one just as much. Well, I bought books three and four in the Tomorrow series shortly after...

Darkness, Be My Friend (2006) by John Marsden
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A Killing Frost (2006)

This review contains unavoidable spoilers for the first and second books in The Tomorrow Series but minimal spoilers on A Killing Frost so read at your discretion. Ready? Okay!It’s easy to think that there is no way Ellie and Co. can top the demolition of a bridge and the destruction of an entir...

A Killing Frost (2006) by John Marsden
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The Dead of Night (2006)

Our poor heroes aren’t so plucky and full of bravado anymore, not since Corrie was shot in the back and Kevin took her to the hospital. But the gang decide they can’t sit around forever: they need more supplies for living in Hell, and they want to see if Corrie’s OK, and they need to take some ac...

The Dead of Night (2006) by John Marsden
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Tomorrow, When the War Began (2006)

Like many, many others I was captivated by Suzanne Collins's THE HUNGER GAMES. It hooked me with its pulse pounding action, nightmarish vision of the future, and most of all its strong, capable female lead and wouldn't let me go. I finished it in one sitting. Unlike many others I was less impress...

Tomorrow, When the War Began (2006) by John Marsden
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While I Live (2007)

I find it difficult to judge this book on its own. I just finished reading the tomorrow series for the third time and by now im so completely familiar with and committed to Ellie that i'd probably read a book about her taking a crap.I do think its not as well written as the first series.For examp...

While I Live (2007) by John Marsden
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The Other Side of Dawn (2007)

Almost my favourite in the series...except that I didn't want it to end, so that put a damper on things. The characters' descent into senseless (and dangerously unplanned ) violence for the sake of it was depressing but believable.Here's my review of the series as a whole....When The Wire first ...

The Other Side of Dawn (2007) by John Marsden
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Burning For Revenge (2006)

This is the one where they accidentally manage to blow up the airport. Yay! They are back to being the insanely destructive, brilliantly successful ruthless terrorists we know and love. And they're more psychologically messed up than ever. Marsden throws in a few wombat and platypus subplots a...

Burning For Revenge (2006) by John Marsden
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Out of Time (2007)

Normally I would put a summary here of the plot, but I'm going to skip that for this book, because as far as I could tell, it had no plot. You may ask, then, what exactly he did in 127 pages. Most of it was vignettes of various children from previous times, with perhaps 10% of the book following ...

Out of Time (2007) by John Marsden
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Winter (2004)

I haven’t picked up any John Marsden books since I finished reading the ‘Tomorrow’ series. I was aware he had written other YA books but had just not got around to them. I needed a book with ‘winter’ in the title for a reading challenge and this book fitted the criteria perfectly. The bonus was...

Winter (2004) by John Marsden
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The Night is For Hunting (2007)

Our teen heroes are forced to evacuate Stratton with a bunch of feral orphan children when the soldiers get too close. Upon returning to Hell, the children decide to abandon the teens, who now feel responsible for them. After being rescued, they then celebrate Christmas.The plot doesn’t sound tha...

The Night is For Hunting (2007) by John Marsden
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Checkers (2000)

Checkers is a young adult fiction novel about a girl who I am assuming to be around 15/16 years old. There is a lot of mystery about her because she doesn't say where she is or even who she is outright - everything is described very subtly and you come to realise that she's in some sort of mental...

Checkers (2000) by John Marsden
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The Great Gatenby (1989)

I liked this book more than I expected to. John Marsden was my favourite author until I was about 15, so I've read a lot of his books - just not many of his ones with male protagonists. It took me a while to adjust to Erle's style of narration, but once I did I found it intriguing and I grew quit...

The Great Gatenby (1989) by John Marsden
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Creep Street: You Make It Happen (1996)

You make it happen.If you're about to enter this book, we have a piece of advice for you! Be careful in here. Be careful. Making the wrong moves in Creep Street can get nasty! You can find yourself up to your ankles in blood . . . or with flesh-eating spiders crawling all over you . . . or with a...

Creep Street: You Make It Happen (1996) by John Marsden
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Take My Word for It (1992)

I was so excited to discover the existence of this book after reading So Much To Tell You. I was pretty blown away by that one, so I was thrilled to know there was a companion novel which, according to Wikipedia, would fill in the gaps and detail the aftermath of the first book. Told from Lisa’s ...

Take My Word for It (1992) by John Marsden
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Dear Miffy (1997)

Dear John Marsden,I already knew you were the almighty king of Aussie YA after reading the Tomorrow series, but now I'm going to throw in a crown, a sceptre and a huge, lavish coronation ceremony to make it all official.Love,Me.As much as I love the premise and the characters and the voice of the...

Dear Miffy (1997) by John Marsden
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Cool School (1996)

It's your first day at your new cool school.By lunchtime you could have gone into the wrong toilets, gatecrashed the staff room, blown up the science block, been hypnotised by the principal, asked for a date, broken every bone in your body. . .It's up to you.You could have felt joy, fear,...

Cool School (1996) by John Marsden
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The Journey (1988)

His duties were menial — cleaning, painting, repairing, carrying, general labouring. For quite a time though hardly anyone except Mayon and a couple of other stringers spoke to him, even to give him a ‘good morning’. ‘Be patient,’ Mayon advised. ‘They’re used to stringers coming and going every w...

The Journey (1988) by John Marsden
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Creep Street (1996)

And the work of two minutes to wind out the winch. Just as you finish, your brother comes wandering down to where you are. ‘What are you doing?’ he wants to know.     ‘Nothing,’ you say, quickly throwing the lever on the winch forwards. ‘Hey, look at this.’ You lead him across...

Creep Street (1996) by John Marsden
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Tomorrow 7 - The Other Side Of Dawn

The later the night got, the more time the trucks spent at the servo. I guess everyone slows down at night. Some of the small convoys sat around for thirty or forty minutes. That was good for us, because we would have more time to sneak up on the vehicles and plant the explosive charges.We’d set ...

Tomorrow 7 - The Other Side Of Dawn by John Marsden
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The Ellie Chronicles (2012)

No, just kidding. I don’t know what it was that had run so hard through the blood of this mob, whether it was rage or fear or a desire for freedom or a force that has no word. I suspect it was the last one. But whatever it was, the charge up to the ridge from where Gavin and Homer had turned them...

The Ellie Chronicles (2012) by John Marsden
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The Third Day, The Frost (2010)

All of us had been through the same emotions, I think. We’d started pinning a lot on our call to New Zealand, though we didn’t know exactly how they could help us. It had been so exciting when the man responded to our mayday. But it hadn’t taken him long to curdle our little cup of hope. Our reac...

The Third Day, The Frost (2010) by John Marsden
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Harald Hardrada (2012)

As there appears to be no standard form of English spelling of early Scandinavian names, I have used whichever form seems the most appropriate in the historical context and the least intimidating for an English reader. Similarly, the title of ‘earl’ is spelled in that English form where it occurs...

Harald Hardrada (2012) by John Marsden
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The Year My Life Broke (2013)

As this apparently didn’t include me I found myself more of a reject than ever. Most kids had practice every day. A lot of them whinged about it but I wouldn’t have minded.     Instead of playing cricket I wandered around looking for something to do. One day when they were sho...

The Year My Life Broke (2013) by John Marsden
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Letters from the Inside

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