Fifteen-year-old Kitty's special interest in an old man's garden links her to a seemingly dangerous young man who covets the land and whose mind and Kitty's seem to be opposite sides of a coin.
Finding Bianca wandering the countryside in a state of amnesia after a devastating emotional scene with her mother, Hubert and his sister Emily wonder if she would benefit from exposure to their own bustling family.
Four Australian children befriend the immigrant owner of a formerly deserted house and discover he is being harrassed by a motorcycle gang who consider his house their headquarters.
Tormented by his mother's death, his father's rejection, and his grandparent's inability to understand him, Mark finally finds new strength and purpose in his acquaintance with a young quadriplegic with whom he shares an interest in nature.
After surviving a car accident and a bush fire, three young Australians find that everything seems changed and they are traveling through different places and times.
Sixteen-year-old Roland's hit-and-run accident in a borrowed car sends him fleeing into the wild Australian countryside, where he struggles for both survival and self-respect.
Sixteen-year-old Roland's hit-and-run accident in a borrowed car sends him fleeing into the wild Australian countryside, where he struggles for both survival and self-respect.