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The seven winners of the inaugural DARE awards are thrust together on a life-changing journey, to cross seven continents in seven days. But on the eve of their adventure, they receive The First Sign. Before they can solve the puzzle of the mysterious symbols, a deadly attack throws one of them into a terrifying fight for life. Soon, all seven are battling an epic seven-day countdown to destruction. Can they stand together and solve The Seven Signs before their time is up?

Seven teenagers. Seven signs. Seven days to save the world!

Maria Andzelm was a Catholic teenager growing up in Nazi-occupied Poland. One by one, her Jewish friends and neighbours were hauled away to undisclosed locations, never to be seen or heard from again. Then Maria’s family took in two Jewish men. They hid them in a box underneath the floor of their barn. Every day, Maria brought them food to satisfy their stomachs and books to feed their minds. She did this every day for two years–and paid a terrible price.

Read Maria’s stirring story as well as the gripping accounts of five other teenagers who willingly put their lives in jeopardy for the sake of saving Jews during World War II. 

One missing, presumed dead.
Two in trouble with the law.
Only four remain to solve the Second Sign.

The DARE Award winners–Yasmin, Zander, Andy, Dylan, JJ, Isabel and Mila–have been caught in a deadly battle of wits with a mysterious enemy who isn’t afraid to kill. Too late, they learned that the First Sign predicted catastrophic attacks which have left Egypt in chaos. Yasmin is missing. Many more lives are at stake.

With Andy and Dylan in police custody in LA, can the remaining four DARE winners unravel the Second Sign–seven new symbols–and stop The Signmaker’s destructive plan before the countdown ends?

Go to www.scholastic.com.au/sevensigns to find out more and to see the trailer!

Slowly, the car made its way down the street to the cheers of the crowd. Something that looked like a small black bottle came sailing through the air, and landed close to the Archduke. He brushed it aside, and it then rolled into the road behind the car. Instants later came a terrific bang, the road exploded in a shower of dust and stones, and tiny sharp things went flying through the air like angry bees.

Louis Jullian and his older brother Thomas are on holiday in Sarajevo, enjoying the privileges of life in a diplomat’s family. But the peace is shattered as a bomb explodes and the heir to the Austrian Empire is assassinated in front of their eyes.

As Europe descends into war, Louis convinces his parents to let him go to the front as a war correspondent. Sent to northern France, Louis witnesses the war’s first battles and the beginning of trench warfare.  His friends–from Australia, Britain, France, Austria, Russia–join the war effort too, with–and against–each other.

France. Winter. 1918.

The First World War is over. An brave and determined little French orphan, Honore, wanders through the snow, cold and hungry and lost. When he stumbles on the Australian Flying Corps and meets airman, Tim Tovell, his life is changed forever.

This is a story of a remarkable little stowaway and his journey to his new home in Australia.

One of a series of meticulously researched, historical novels in which each book
 is written in the form of a fictional diary of a young person living during an important event
or time period in Australian history.

They had been loading the tunnel face with gelignite when the storm came over. The lightning struck the mountain and went down through an underground watercourse to the wet rockface and set off some of the charges, exploding the rock.

Eva Fischer has moved to Cabramurra, the highest town in Australia. Eva feels on top of the world too. Surrounded by people of every nationality, Eva makes new friends and tries strange foreign food, such as pizza. Eva learns to ski and ride, and even learns that being half German isn’t so bad after all. But all around her momentous things are happening. The Snowy Mountains Scheme is under way, huge dams have been built, tunnels constructed, homes abandoned, people lost.

256-pp softcover. Middle/Upper Primary.

Two cities in utter chaos.
So many murderous enemies.
Escape is unlikely.
The Signmaker’s deadly game continues...

The DARE Seven are trapped on a roof, surrounded on all sides by angry, desperate criminals. Nothing could be more dangerous. Even the valiant cops can’t get them out.  

But the Seven have an ally. Hope might be on the horizon. 

The Dare winners must overcome missile attacks, explosions, and the chaos of Greece, to get to The Signmaker’s next target–RoboWorld. But even if they do make it, how will they deal with an opponent who is stronger, has more weapons, thinks faster, can’t feel pain and has just one goal–total destruction? Their own lives, and all of those in Seoul are at stake.

If you could be a hero, would you DARE?
Seven Signs. Four days left to save the world...

When Chase and Ava touch a glowing cube in their magic suitcase, they jump forward in time! In the future, they find awesome flying cars and tons of robots. But they don't have much time to explore...Randall is after them! Chase and Ava need to act fast to put the cube back where it belongs. Will they complete their mission...or will Randall steal the cube?

Trapped in a cargo plane.
High over the jungle.
The DARE winners have no choice.
They must jump!

If they can get off the plane alive, and survive an attack by the remnants of Marco Bravo’s army, the DARE winners will have to confront Felix Scott with all the evidence they have that he is The Signmaker.
 
What will their enemy do if he’s backed into a corner?

From Bogota, Colombia, to Sydney, Australia, the DARE winners have to risk everything to get to the truth and stop The Signmaker’s plan for world destruction–before time is up. But it’s not just the clock that’s against them.

The tide is turning and they’re about to face their most deadly challenge yet.

If you could be a hero, would you DARE?
Seven Signs. Two days left to save the world.

RoboWorld’s robots are strong, armed and perfectly safe... until now.
Now, they’re deadly weapons, with one thing on their minds...
‘Defend, destroy!’

While Zander lies dying on the ground, the rest of the DARE Seven are left to defend themselves with only small zap guns against a massive swarm of crazed robot animals–monkeys, tigers, growling lions, wolves, gorillas, and more. It sounds like an awesome video game... except that it’s real.

With the increasing intensity of The Signmaker’s sinister scheme, the next sign will lead to something even more dangerous than facing a pack of deadly robots. It will take the DARE winners into the heart of a jungle to face Bogota’s most despicable villain.

If you could be a hero, would you DARE?

Seven Signs. Three days left to save the world.

Ten concentration camps. Ten different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face.

As a Jewish boy in 1930s' Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything he has, and everyone he loves, have been snatched brutally from him. And then Yanek himself is taken prisoner and his arm tattooed with the words PRISONER B-3087.

He is forced from one nightmarish concentration camp to another as World War II rages all around him. He encounters evil he could have never imagined, but also sees surprising glimpses of hope amid the horror. He barely escapes death, only to confront it again seconds later. Can Yanek make it through the terror without losing his hope, his will–and, most of all, his sense of who he really is inside? Based on an astonishing true story.

NB This title has been selected for mature readers as it contains disturbing descriptions of life in the Nazi concentration camps.