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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.

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

Ten classic foil-covered editions in an attractive slipcase for Horrible Histories buffs and new converts alike!

Titles Include:

• Awful Egyptians
• Groovy Greeks
• Rotten Romans
• Terrifying Tudors
• Vicious Vikings
• Vile Victorians
• Frightful First World War
• Gorgeous Georgians
• Measly Middle Ages
• Woeful Second World War.

Terry Deary. Ten softcovers with B/W illustrations, each approx 144 pp. Upper Primary/Lower Secondary.

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.

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?