AustLit

'Three cousins discover more of their Australian pirate heritage after family diaries are released to the public. Story based along the Margaret River in Western Australia.' (Publication summary)

'Taken out of an orphanage and put to work as domestic servants in Tasmania’s early colonial days, several children find themselves treated like slaves. A carefully planned escape sees them flee into the forbidding southern wilderness. It is beautiful but dangerous, and to survive the children have to rely on ingenuity, determination and a fierce desire to forge the sort of family ties and loyalty they have never previously known.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Our Gang, with bonus story, Under Martial Law is Max Campbell's second book with Forty South Publishing.

'In 1950s Australia, boy heaven was a clubhouse for your gang, even if it meant having to accept a girl member into the group. But when the gang finds clues leading to real-life sunken treasure, and some baddies arrive in search of that treasure, both the girl and the clubhouse prove indispensable.

'Under Martial Law: In the late 1960s eight school children are forced to defend their town from a raging bushfire after they find themselves left behind in an abandoned forestry settlement.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.