Books with title Staying Alive in Year 5

From the multi-award winning and bestselling author behind the Tomorrow seriesStaying Alive in Year 5 is a monster hit for primary school readers from one of Australia's most popular storytellers, John Marsden.Scott and his friends are simply staying alive in year 5 until their surprising new teacher, Mr Murlin, comes along.Boring textbooks go into the bin, eating chocolate in class becomes compulsory and suddenly it's OK to be weird.But Mr Murlin is not popular with everyone. . .

In this sequel to Tender Branches, the community of Paco Rodriquez Middle School moves forward after being hurled back into the Stone Ages by some sort of near-global event. A core group remains on the campus, farming the fields, raising goats and the ever-present chickens. The old world becomes a hurtful memory and the new life after is uncertain. Cherished friends pass away and new souls appear. Faith is found and lost again. While the constant issues of security become muddied with the violence of revenge, what used to be simple tenets of decency are challenged and discarded by some, championed by others. Seth, Briley, and Jumbo, once such tender branches, blossom into their destinies. New threats surface. Abandonment leaves marks and joyful reunions ease that pain. A decade passes. Will Paco Rod fade into the dim night of legend as the community moves on?

‘My name is Zara. It’s coming up to my sixteenth birthday and I don’t think any boy will ever kiss me again. I kissed a boy once. What I mean is, I kissed just one boy, but more than once. Much more than once. His name was Troy and he’s dead now. I killed him.I wasn’t there when he died, but I could have saved his life and chose not to. If I’d known he was going to die, would I have made a different decision? The answer is: I don’t think so.Lots of people have died by now, not just Troy. I don’t know for certain whether Troy died or not, but it’s hard to see how he would have survived. What’s happened has affected everyone, maybe everyone in the world, and so many people have died. I don’t know how many. I don’t suppose anyone knows for sure.’It’s just a bad outbreak of ‘flu. That’s what everyone thought. Until people started dying. Millions of them. Zara is 15 and being uprooted from her home to hide out in the wilderness isn’t her idea of fun. After two years in the woods she finds life for survivors of the pandemic is very scary. The world is a dangerous place and Zara will need to grow up fast if she and her family are going to survive.

On what had seemed like a regular school day, an epidemic that nobody saw coming suddenly takes hold and spreads quickly through the classrooms, hallways and other areas. Hundreds are quickly turned, from willing students, into the mindless, shuffling dead. With hopes of survival quickly fading, Jade and Elise, two friends who have somehow escaped the first wave of death, must somehow find their way to safety. But with the whole area teeming with the undead it proves to be trickier than they imagined. In a desperate clash between the living and the infected, the courageous duo join with other survivors to find a place that will be safe. But as they fight their way through the endless tides of the ravenous infected, they slowly come to realize that life, and death, will never be the same again. Staying Alive is going to be harder than they had ever imagined

On what had seemed like a regular school day, an epidemic that nobody saw coming suddenly takes hold and spreads quickly through the classrooms, hallways and other areas. Hundreds are quickly turned, from willing students, into the mindless, shuffling dead. With hopes of survival quickly fading, Jade and Elise, two friends who have somehow escaped the first wave of death, must somehow find their way to safety. But with the whole area teeming with the undead it proves to be trickier than they imagined. In a desperate clash between the living and the infected, the courageous duo join with other survivors to find a place that will be safe. But as they fight their way through the endless tides of the ravenous infected, they slowly come to realize that life, and death, will never be the same again. Staying Alive is going to be harder than they had ever imagined.