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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!

France. Winter. 1918.

The First World War is over. A 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.

Amy heads to Marysville to visit her grandmother, and help in the garden and clean out her gutters. It is, after all, bushfire season.

As summer arrives, so do the fires, and Dad is busy helping control the flames in bushfires that have started burning in Victoria. But it is early February 2009, and the Black Saturday bushfire is about to encircle Amy and her family, and teach Amy first-hand about tragedy and survival.

Three different kids. One mission in common: ESCAPE.

Josef is a Jewish boy in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world…

Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety and freedom in America…

Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe…

All three young people will go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers–from drownings, to bombings, to betrayals. But for each of them, there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, surprising connections will tie their stories together in the end

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? Chase and Ava are ready for their next adventure! When they 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... bad guy 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?

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.

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.

As the horrors of the First World War are drawing to a close, a danger has arisen that will kill more people around the world that the Great War did—an influenza pandemic.

Charlotte McKenzie, assisting the doctor next door, find herself experiencing at close hand the effects of this devastating disease—and when if finally attacks her own family, how will Charlotte cope?

Frieda, her mother and father arrive in Australia to look for a better life. Her father is to open a pharmacy with Frieda's uncle and they will live over the shop. But as the First World War takes hold, the family is devastated by the internment of Papi and Onkel Heinz as enemy aliens, and Frieda has her own battles to fight on the streets with local children. But others are kind and Frieda keeps her grandmother's advice to stay strong in the face of all these trials and eventually triumphs.