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A three-part sequel to the Tomorrow Series, featuring the characters from the original series.
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The Ellie Chronicles is pitched to a 'reluctant reader' audience.
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1y
While I Live
Sydney
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Macmillan
,
2003
Z1070661
2003
single work
novel
young adult
'Wars never end. They go on loudly or they go on quietly. They grip you with bulldog teeth. The town of Wirrawee is emerging from war, slowly. School's back in, Juicy's is open for coffee, farmers are bidding at the cattle sales. Ellie Linton at last gets what she longed for and what she fought for, to be back on the farm with her parents. But it's not the same. A new nation is on the other side of a new border. Suddenly the war is about to explode into Ellie's life again. The effects are devastating. The consequences will change her forever.' - Dust jacket, (2003)
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2y
Incurable
Sydney
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Macmillan
,
2005
Z1225518
2005
single work
novel
young adult
Ellie has struggled to put the war behind her and lead a normal life. Although what's normal about your parents having been murdered; trying to run a farm and go to school; and bringing up a young boy who's hiding terrible secrets about his past? (Source: Singapore National Library)
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3y
Circle of Flight
Sydney
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Pan Macmillan Australia
,
2006
Z1325239
2006
single work
novel
young adult
It is a time of profound change for Ellie Linton. Enemies are everywhere. Some come crawling over the hills, others drive in and knock on the front door. Sometimes her friends are there and sometimes they are not. Ellie fights every inch of the way. But when courage and imagination are not enough, when she is trapped and helpless, Ellie must face the end of life as she knows it, standing alone, sustained only by her own strength. (Source: Trove)
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Related Works
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Tomorrow Series
1993
Pan Macmillan Australia
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1993-2000
Z1117541
1993
series - author
novel
young adult
Works about this Work
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A Natural(ised) Home for the Lintons : Lost Children and Indigenising Discourse in Mary Grant Bruce’s and John Marsden’s Young Adult Fiction
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , vol. 1 no. 1 2009;'This article compares two 'lost child' incidents from non-indigenous Australian fiction. One is from John Marsden's Tomorrow Series, the other from Mary Grant Bruce's Billabong Series. Both series feature as their central character a young girl with the surname Linton who proves herself brave, daring, and a good friend and citizen, particularly when rescuing children lost in the bush. When the two series' lost child incidents are compared, it becomes apparent that these outward resemblances are also mirrored by some deeper discursive parallels.
An analysis of the constructions of subjectivity and spatiality around the 'lost child' events reveals closely-matching discourses of mateship and settler belonging. The comparison also foregrounds the core ideologies of gender, class, nationalism and race that in turn underpin these discourses, showing how each of these texts remains inflected with textual strategies of othering and indigenisation that are fundamental to imperialism.' (Author's abstract)
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A Voice of Inspiration
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 25 - 26 November 2006; (p. 26)
— Review of Circle of Flight 2006 single work novel ; The Ellie Chronicles 2003- series - author novel -
Making Dreams Come True for Many Youngsters
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 December 2005; (p. 12) -
Marsden, in a Class of His Own
2003
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8-9 November 2003; (p. 6-7) The Age , 8 November 2003; (p. 3)
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A Voice of Inspiration
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 25 - 26 November 2006; (p. 26)
— Review of Circle of Flight 2006 single work novel ; The Ellie Chronicles 2003- series - author novel -
Marsden, in a Class of His Own
2003
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8-9 November 2003; (p. 6-7) The Age , 8 November 2003; (p. 3) -
Making Dreams Come True for Many Youngsters
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 December 2005; (p. 12) -
A Natural(ised) Home for the Lintons : Lost Children and Indigenising Discourse in Mary Grant Bruce’s and John Marsden’s Young Adult Fiction
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , vol. 1 no. 1 2009;'This article compares two 'lost child' incidents from non-indigenous Australian fiction. One is from John Marsden's Tomorrow Series, the other from Mary Grant Bruce's Billabong Series. Both series feature as their central character a young girl with the surname Linton who proves herself brave, daring, and a good friend and citizen, particularly when rescuing children lost in the bush. When the two series' lost child incidents are compared, it becomes apparent that these outward resemblances are also mirrored by some deeper discursive parallels.
An analysis of the constructions of subjectivity and spatiality around the 'lost child' events reveals closely-matching discourses of mateship and settler belonging. The comparison also foregrounds the core ideologies of gender, class, nationalism and race that in turn underpin these discourses, showing how each of these texts remains inflected with textual strategies of othering and indigenisation that are fundamental to imperialism.' (Author's abstract)
