Darkness, Be My Friend (The Tomorrow Series #4)

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Author
John Marsden
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Genre
Young Adult Fiction
Released
01 January, 1996

Darkness, Be My Friend (The Tomorrow Series #4)

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    Synopsis

    You're running from bullets through the streets of your own town. Your life's on the line and no-one's there to help.What's happened?When did safety turn to fear, peace turn to war, happiness turn to panic? When did your normal day become a nightmare?Ellie and her friends struggle with the biggest questions life can offer in Darkness, Be My Friend, the fourth book in the award-winning Tomorrow series.
    John Marsden
    About the author

    John Marsden

    John Marsden has written more than 40 books, mostly for teenagers and children, including Tomorrow When the War Began, So Much to Tell You, and Letters from the Inside. He has sold over five million books worldwide, and has won every major award in Australia for young people's fiction. South of Darkness, written for adults, won the Christina Stead Award for Best Novel of 2015. In August 2019, John's newest book, The Art of Growing Up, a non-fiction work about education and parenting, will be published. John's passionate interest in education led him to start two schools: Candlebark, on a vast forested estate near Romsey, Victoria, and Alice Miller, at Macedon, a Year 7-12 school with a particular emphasis on the creative arts. The two schools enrol 400 students in 2021.

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