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| - The Tomorrow Series was a series of books aimed at young adults by Australian author John Marsden. They are written from the perspective of rural teenager Ellie Linton. She and a small group of friends head into an unexplored area of bush for a week-long holiday, and return to find that their houses are abandoned and their animals are dead or dying. They soon realise that Australia was invaded on Commemoration Day, and they are among the very small number of people who have avoided being taken prisoner. The original series is usually refered to as The Tomorrow Series and consisted of seven books published between 1994 and 1999. These are:
* Tomorrow, When The War Began
* The Dead of the Night
* The Third Day, The Frost
* Darkness, Be My Friend
* Burning For Revenge
* The Night Is For Hunting
* The Other Side of Dawn The Ellie Chronicles was a follow-up series, set in the aftermath of the invasion and subsequent war, which began publication in 2003 and finished in 2006. The titles in this series are:
* While I Live
* Incurable
* Circle of Flight A movie premiered on August 8, 2010, and got a wide release in Australia on September 2, 2010. It was successful enough that the rest of the series is also being adapted. No word on an American release, although given the books' failure to catch on in America, we're not getting our hopes up. The trailer is up here. By the way, this series is totally not Red Dawn in the outback. Honest.
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