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  <title><![CDATA[Tomorrow, When the War Began (The Tomorrow Series, #1)]]></title>
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  <default_description>When Ellie and her friends go camping, they have no idea they're leaving their old lives behind forever. Despite a less-than-tragic food shortage and a secret crush or two, everything goes as planned. But a week later, they return home to find their houses empty and their pets starving. Something has gone wrong--horribly wrong. Before long, they realize the country has been invaded, and the entire town has been captured--including their families and all their friends. Ellie and the other survivors face an impossible decision: They can flee for the mountains or surrender. Or they can fight.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1995</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Tomorrow, When the War Began (The Tomorrow Series, Book 1)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Marsden]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Everyone - it's a must read!]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 27 13:19:52 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ellie and her friends Corrie, Robyn, Lee, Kevin, Homer and Fi live in and around a small rural town in an undisclosed part of Australia. They decide to go camping, to “go feral” and spend a weekend over the Christmas holidays up the bush instead of at the showgrounds with the townsfolk. Some of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6903463">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Max]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[young adults]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 26 18:06:46 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 11 01:31:19 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about a girl named Ellie who goes with several of her friends out into a place called Hell in Australia. In the beginning Ellie ,a teen aged farm girl, wants to get a all her friends and camp out in a place called Hell. She calls all her friends and just about all of them talk there par...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6858779">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6858779]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="52081752">
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    <location><![CDATA[New York, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[my brother, readers of The Hunger Games]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Navah]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 09 11:27:11 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 19 16:04:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[When Ellie, a high-school senior who lives on a ranch in rural Australia, gets the idea to invite all her friends to &quot;go bush&quot; and spend five days in the outback wilderness, they think it will be fun to get away from everything they know for a short while. But they never expected everythin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52081752">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30114412">
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    <name><![CDATA[Choupette]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Melbourne, VIC, Australia]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Sweet Vally High and Goosebumps]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 14 04:18:23 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 28 04:09:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eight teenagers who go camping in the bush for a few days, only to return and find that Australia had been invaded by an unknown enemy. They then spend the next five books fighting a guerrilla war against the invaders. The story is narrated by Ellie, who is elected to keep a written record of what h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30114412">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30114412]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="14880471">
    <user id="706698">
    <name><![CDATA[Sisi]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Melbourne, Australia]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[everyone]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Feb 07 21:15:06 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 13 01:07:31 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've lost track of how many times I've read this book. But I never get tired of reading it. Coming to the Tomorrow series rather late in the game (I'd hazard I was 16 when I first picked it up), I suspect if I had read it earlier it would have had more of an impact on myself. Even so, the book's imp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14880471">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38569383">
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    <name><![CDATA[caldron]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brisbane, Australia]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 24 16:32:04 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 24 20:30:48 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is indeed a surprising book.<br/><br/>I'd heard of Marsden's prolific &amp; popular writing (teen-fic) in an article by the Australian Weekend Magazine several years ago; he is a former school teacher (if I remember correctly) and I can now attest that he writes compelling human drama supported b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38569383">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="14787676">
    <user id="129682">
    <name><![CDATA[Sharon]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <date_added>Wed Feb 06 20:42:53 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 06 20:49:19 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[What would it be like if you were off on a camping trip, and when you returned someone had invaded and taken over your home? In this novel, John Marsden paints a realistic portrait of teenagers trying to deal with war happening overnight. They do what they must to survive, comfort each other, and de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14787676">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41341735">
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    <name><![CDATA[Cornmaven]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Fort Worth, TX]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 30 17:04:14 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 30 17:11:58 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a the first of a series.  I am torn about whether boys would like it.  The story is very interesting - a bunch of HS kids in Australia go camping in the bush for a week, then come back to find everyone in the town and rural areas missing, with all of the shops in town looted and smashed.  Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41341735">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41341735]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="74995773">
    <user id="2851221">
    <name><![CDATA[Chris]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Melbourne, 07, Australia]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 19 01:38:44 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 19 01:45:58 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[ If this is not my favourite series of books, its definitely on the list of top three. Action, emotions, Australia being invaded, depth to the heroics, explosions and actions, what else could you ask for? Not only that, but you don't often get that type of action set in Australia. For me, the countr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74995773">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74680408">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 15 19:20:13 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ellie and her friends discover a hidden refuge when they’re camping in the area of the bush locally known as “Hell.”  They spend a few days there, and when they return home, they find that home – as they know it – no longer exists.  Their town, and possibly their country is under enemy occ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74680408">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="60244284">
    <user id="2179561">
    <name><![CDATA[Adrienne]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 18 19:16:03 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 18 19:16:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[7 Australian teenagers go on a camping trip into the bush. When they come back, they find that all of their parents are gone and their pets are dead or dying. Another country has invaded while they were gone, and has taken over their town.<br/><br/>That’s the idea behind Tomorrow, When the War B...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60244284">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="59933494">
    <user id="1972481">
    <name><![CDATA[Tatiana]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Columbus, OH]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 16 14:37:41 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 16 15:11:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book blew my mind when I read it, it was just so fascinating. A bunch of teens go out on a camping trip in the Australian wilderness and when they get back everyone is gone, the farm animals are dead, and there is nothing around to explain any of it. Ellie, and her friends soon realize though t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59933494">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45952166">
    <user id="179668">
    <name><![CDATA[Liz B]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Leesburg, VA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Feb 10 12:28:24 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 16 09:03:59 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Premise: A group of Australian teenagers go on a camping trip over the holidays and come back to find that the country has been invaded and their families are in a prison camp.<br/><br/>I liked this book a lot--perhaps even enough to continue reading the series. There were a few things I especiall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45952166">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45952166]]></url>
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    <review id="75992313">
    <user id="2142981">
    <name><![CDATA[Yvonne]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Belpre, OH]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 28 06:59:30 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 28 07:07:59 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Dogs are Dead!  That was Ellie's first thoughts are. They should be barking and racing to greet her, instead they lie covered with flies. She races into the house - there is no sign of life. No dirty dishes in the sink, no TV blaring or radio talking.  Only silence.  Where is everyone?<br/>Elli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75992313">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75992313]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="74334170">
    <user id="1754277">
    <name><![CDATA[Adele]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Victoria, Australia]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 12 18:11:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 12 18:47:53 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>wow! this really makes you think. this book is based is australia but you never really know where exactly and you have faceless enemies who could be anybody. it's a book that isn't against any race or religion. because the invaders are never really identifie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74334170">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="36515245">
    <user id="1126107">
    <name><![CDATA[M.ransom]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Australia]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 29 16:13:40 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 26 08:40:04 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[First I would like to say, that this is NOT a book I would have picked up on my own accord. A friend of mine in Australia recommended the series, so I decided to at least give the first one a read.<br/><br/>I have only read the first installment thus far, but I was very impressed with it, and coul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36515245">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 31 07:59:04 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 31 08:07:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow - I don't know how I missed this one for all these years, unless it wasn't widely available in the States until more recently. This book was all of my favorite things - action, adventure and romance, with a badass teenage girl as the main character. And there are six more in the series, so that'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76291770">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 15 13:13:32 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 19 09:52:05 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was pretty rockin.  I don't have time to write a full review however I would like to say that I really enjoyed a small bit where Ellie, whose POV the story is from, is trying to decide between two boys.  One is smart, intelligent and facsinating.  (The book makes him sound sort of delicate...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43156321">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64413867">
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    <name><![CDATA[Cassandra]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 21 14:19:06 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 21 14:25:31 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh I love these books. It astounds me they're not more widely read - perhaps the Australian setting throws readers off at first? Hopefully with the recent hoopla about young adult books they'll get a wider audience, especially if fans of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2767052.The_Hunger_Games_Hunger_Games_1_" title="The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins">The Hunger Games</a> find these through recommendations. Anyway, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64413867">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 23 18:16:26 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 27 05:23:32 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ellie and six friends return from camping escapades in the Australian bush to find their families, towns and country held hostage.   <br/><br/><br/>Look out, I'm starting to like dystopia novels.  The more I read outside my comfort zone, the more I feel that I have no idea what I actually like.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38491113">more...</a>]]></body>
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