Tomorrow, When The War Began, a brilliant novel that is written by one of.
Australia's leading bookwriters, John Marsden, is about surviving and the.
survivors themselves. It's all up to you and you have to pull yourself through.
Your not too sure if you can make it and survive with the rest but you have too,.
you have no choice.
The series is told by an intelligent teenage girl, Ellie, who tells the story of a.
group of seven small-town teenagers who return from a camping trip in the.
Australian bush to find their country invaded and their parents imprisoned.
Constantly on the run from the invaders, they manage to commit some.
excellent acts of sabotage.
This is no weak, unrealistic novel; these are kids stuck in a terrifying situation,.
with bullets flying and real helicopters sending down missiles to blow them up.
This series is very graphic: it is about kids killing soldiers with little more than.
a knife or belt. The violence, the blood, the fear, the craziness of war are told in.
the way that they are seen as incredibly real. Amongst all the bad, these kids.
manage to remain sane, though they occasionally breakdown, each in their own.
way, but together they support each other, learn about each other, love each.
other, argue and support each other. They learn about courage, bravery, honour,.
respect, along with the thrill and sadness of killing another human being, and.
the shit-in-your-pants fear of being shot or blown apart.
Secondly, this isn't your typical American war movie where the good guys arm.
themselves with the latest US technology and blow the enemy to pieces. These.
kids are unprepared, they're not going to win the war, they're more likely to end.
up dead blown to smithereens, but it's their land, their parents and friends in.
prison camps, they give a damn and they'll rather die trying than give up. .
Another reason in which these books are portayed as being realistic is that they.
aren't all about happy-endings where no-one dies and everybody gets married.
