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A heart-pounding adventure that will test the limits of friendship, courage, and the pursuit of romance. The Kelly Gang? It can't be. This is the 21st Century, not the 19th, Kylie thought. Kylie is a spirited 13-year-old whose world is about to be turned upside down during a six-day trail ride in the rugged ranges of North Queensland. Kylie's interests have always revolved around her friends, pets, dancing, and the thrill of horse ridin...

Sixteen-year-old Air Cadet Willy Williams and his instructor are forced to make an emergency landing in their light aircraft at an isolated cattle station in the vast wilderness of Far North Queensland. As the repaired aircraft is taxiing to take off, a woman rushes toward them screaming for help. Behind her is an armed and dangerous criminal desperate to protect the secret he's hiding at the station-at all costs. The man takes aim at the airp...

Forty kilometres east of Townsville is Bowling Green Bay, a vast expanse of shallow water ringed and mangrove swamps-home to the deadly saltwater crocodile. In the scorching heat of the tropical summer, navy cadet Martin Schipholl, his sister Letitia and three teenage friends venture into this dangerous environment. Whilst fishing they witness two murders, thrusting them into a deadly pursuit that will test their characters, physical abilities...

Fourteen-year-old army cadet, Chloe Cummings, is on an outback bivouac with her cadet unit near the tiny North Queensland town of Mingela when mischief begins. Chloe looks sixteen but acts eighteen and has many enemies in camp. She has a reputation for scandalous behaviour, and the lady Officers of Cadets are watching like hawks for any misbehaviour to get her and her best friend, Jane, discharged. But during a field exercise, her cadet unit w...

Sixteen-year-old navy cadet, Andrew Collins, is spending the April school holidays with his older sister, Carmen, assisting a university research program on the Great Barrier Reef. Whilst SCUBA diving hundred kilometres out to sea around Yule Reef, they find something out of place, something unnatural that should not be there... and that they should not have seen. The discovery leads brother and sister into the most desperate situation they ha...

Seventeen-year-old Barbara Brassington, high school student and Cadet Under-Officer in the Australian Army Cadets, is with her unit in the North Queensland savannah woodland. During a night navigation exercise, a top-secret French military satellite crashes, showering the countryside with fragments and setting fire to the bush. Barbara is drawn into a deadly international incident with catastrophic results, testing her physical endurance, cons...

Australian Army Cadet Corporal, 15-year-old Roger Dunning, sets out with his friends, Peter, Stephen and Graham, on a five-day hike on the Atherton Tablelands to complete the Duke of Edinburgh Award. Their OC, Captain Conkey, has placed a set of clues to test their navigation along their 100-kilometre hike. However, almost immediately the four friends walk into trouble so unexpected and so deadly that it tests all their skills as cadets and th...

For 13-year-old Cairns high school student, Willy Williams, life is not going smoothly. He has developed a passionate interest in girls, particularly the beautiful and mysterious Petra. But Willy is also bedevilled by temptation and is torn between his desire for Petra, admiration for red-head Barbara, and hopeful lust for Marjorie, his best friend's sister. Worse, Willy has a secret enemy who makes his life a misery, as do the school bullies ...

It is the start of the Christmas holidays in North Queensland, the wet season in the tropics. Twelve-year-old Kylie and her friends, Margaret and Allison, travel to her grandmother's dairy farm on the Atherton Tablelands. On arrival they are confronted by thieves, sparking an unexpected adventure in search of lost family treasure. They are drawn into the rain-soaked, tropical jungle in the rugged country below Mt Bartle Frere, the highest mou...

Meet Kylie, an 11-year-old girl living in Cairns, North Queensland. She's got a new puppy called Skip and a best friend named Margaret. Life is good, but there's trouble brewing in paradise. The new neighbours have moved in next door, bringing with them a savage dog named Brute. And when dogs start disappearing from the neighbourhood, Kylie and Margaret begin to suspect that something sinister is going on. As the mystery deepens, Kylie an...

Fraternisation is strictly forbidden by the Cadet Policy Manual. As the Company Sergeant Major, one of Cadet Warrant Officer Class 2 Graham Kirk's main duties is discipline - especially fraternisation. While he knows the real supervision is the responsibility of the adult Officers of Cadets, he also has a key role to play. And the cadet sergeants are the people he must depend on. The problem is: can he trust them? In the savannah country...

Not every girl is made of all things nice... Declin Riley is 19 and a computer controller at the Caster Sugar Mill in Far North Queensland. But in his first weeks on the job he is witness to the murder of a fellow co-worker. For reasons unknown, some of the mill workers are determined to sabotage the mill and cause it to go bankrupt. To make matters worse, Declin is caught up in a love triangle with the boss's young daughter, Carol, an...

Not every girl is made of all things nice... Declin Riley is 19 and a computer controller at the Caster Sugar Mill in Far North Queensland. But in his first weeks on the job he is witness to the murder of a fellow co-worker. For reasons unknown, some of the mill workers are determined to sabotage the mill and cause it to go bankrupt. To make matters worse, Declin is caught up in a love triangle with the boss's young daughter, Carol, an...

Graham Kirk has just turned 14 and his life is at a crisis point. A year before he had joined the Navy Cadets full of hope and ambition. But a medical exam scuppered his dreams of ever achieving his long-cherished ambition of being a naval officer. Compounding matters, everything in his life seems to be going wrong. He is in trouble at school with both the teachers and the bullies. To add to his woes, he is now feeling the full force of ...

Graham Kirk has just turned 14 and his life is at a crisis point. A year before he had joined the Navy Cadets full of hope and ambition. But a medical exam scuppered his dreams of ever achieving his long-cherished ambition of being a naval officer. Compounding matters, everything in his life seems to be going wrong. He is in trouble at school with both the teachers and the bullies. To add to his woes, he is now feeling the full force of pubert...

Seventeen-year-old Australian Cadet Under-Officer, Barbara Brassington, is on a desperate search to find her best friend, Fiona, who has gone missing.Barbara and her fellow Army Cadets track Fiona into the unforgiving North Queensland bush, where she has been kidnapped by a religious sect known only as 'The Smiley People'. As they go deeper into the bush, Barbara finds herself torn between conflicting desires and difficult moral choices. Her l...

Seventeen-year-old Australian Cadet Under-Officer, Barbara Brassington, is on a desperate search to find her best friend, Fiona, who has gone missing.Barbara and her fellow Army Cadets track Fiona into the unforgiving North Queensland bush, where she has been kidnapped by a religious sect known only as 'The Smiley People'. As they go deeper into the bush, Barbara finds herself torn between conflicting desires and difficult moral choices. Her l...

Now in his 2nd year as Australian Army Cadet, trouble-maker Graham Kirk is faced with the biggest crisis of his cadetship. The annual field camp has begun and over nine gruelling days he will be forced to face challenges and temptations that test his integrity, courage and loyalty to the limit.Top of the list is Pigsy and his gang, soured by jealousy and resentment. And of course the girls. Will they stand in the way of his promotion to sergea...

Now in his 2nd year as Australian Army Cadet, trouble-maker Graham Kirk is faced with the biggest crisis of his cadetship. The annual field camp has begun and over nine gruelling days he will be forced to face challenges and temptations that test his integrity, courage and loyalty to the limit.Top of the list is Pigsy and his gang, soured by jealousy and resentment. And of course the girls. Will they stand in the way of his promotion to sergea...

Australian Army Cadet Corporal, 15-year-old Roger Dunning, sets out with his friends, Peter, Stephen and Graham, on a five-day hike on the Atherton Tablelands to complete the Duke of Edinburgh Award.Their OC, Captain Conkey, has placed a set of clues to test their navigation along their 100-kilometre hike. However, almost immediately the four friends walk into trouble so unexpected and so deadly that it tests all their skills as cadets and the...