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,

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

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 br

other, argue and support each other. They learn about courage, bravery, honour,

Lastly, to finish off I believe these novels are not just written for the young at

themselves in deep strife and at gunpoint until the hero of the day, Ellie, comes

- In the first novel, Corrie manages to get shot in the back and ends up in a

but manages to come out stronger in some ways weaker in others.

Some topics in this essay:
John Marsden, Armed Intruder, Tomorrow War, support learn, armed intruder, third novel,