Books with title Out of the Blue

An unforgettable story of first love in World War II.One beautiful spring evening, Kitty Danby meets Sammy Ray Bailey, a handsome young American pilot stationed nearby. Sixteen-year-old Kitty and Sammy fall quickly in love and, for a few precious weeks, the future holds a promise of happiness that Kitty hardly dares hope for. But it is 1944 and a tragic incident changes everything, leading to a web of secrets and misunderstandings which will only be unravelled years later . . .

Out of the Blue invites the young reader along on a thrilling adventure with two school friends, Jack and Casey. The opening of this tale finds the two friends finishing a week of school and planning what to do during the weekend. This is to be a weekend like no other weekend!Jack and Casey are embroiled in a spine-tingling, suspense-packed adventure in a bid to discover why Jacks mothers briefcase should be the only item stolen in a burglary, that fateful Friday night. The plot gains momentum when they receive threats and a bewildering demand for code deciphering. The ensuing swift thinking on Jacks part culminates in an unanticipated turn of events for the weekend. This book has been written primarily as an adventure, but it also serves to offer the young reader a window through which to observe the societal tenets of right and wrong that weave through the fabric of the story. The author, Mattie Simpson, has endeavoured to convey and highlight the comradeship and depth of trust between the two main characters, when faced with threats from the underbelly of society.

Kegan is a lonely boy, who finds making friends hard. His family life is complicated and difficult.But Kegan is a gifted artist, and his one pleasure is to watch and draw a family of foxes which lives in the local scrapyard. When developers show an interest in the scrapyard, the foxes' lives are put in danger.Will Kegan be able to save them? Will fighting for them restore his faith in the future?

Out of the Blue is an adventure novel for 12 to 15 year-olds. It is the third book in the Australian, Gippsland Trilogy about the Lawson and Martin families, cattle farmers in the Baw Baw Mountains of Victoria. It follows Find me a River and Rock Dancer, [both Children’s Book Council of Australia Notable Books]. It is a year since bushfire and drought devastated their Baw Baw Mountains cattle property and the farm is in danger of foreclosure. As the story begins the six teenagers are exploring the cave system on their property, discovered the previous year. Here they find an undiscovered series of passages and caves, but only have time to explore part of the new section before leaving to assist Finn’s aunt at a youth camp. Kes Martin, passionate about birds, has been observing nesting peregrine falcons, but the nest is disturbed by intruders and the fledglings left to starve... a discovery which shortly will have unexpected repercussions. While at camp, Kes saves an injured falcon and takes it to a raptor rescue centre owned by the very wealthy Henshaw family. This apparently everyday visit to the veterinary clinic turns into a horrific episode for Kes when she is suspected of a serious crime. Shortly after Kes, Finn and Brian return home from camp, Kes’s nightmarish time becomes even worse when her irrepressible twin brothers Jon and Jack find a way into the locked cave system and become lost kilometres underground. Each of the cousin’s resilience and resourcefulness is called upon to deal with this terrible potential tragedy. Sarah’s brilliant skills are again needed, but not even she, or any of the others, can foresee the amazing end.

"As an Air Force brat, moves were second nature to me. This was my seventh move in fifteen years, and I knew the drill. Usually it was no big deal. But this one was different."Stu and his mom are heading to Minot, North Dakota, where she will assume command of the Air Force base. But this time it will be just the two of them. His brother is away at college, and their father has abruptly decided to move to Nevada.With his family now scattered and his mother preoccupied with military duties, Stu finds himself caught between a respect for the regimented life of the military and an aching desire for independence and freedom. As he struggles to find his way, he gets pulled into his neighbors’ dysfunctional family drama and becomes an unwitting participant. When tragedy finally strikes, Stu must come to terms with his own culpability.Award-winning author S. L. Rottman has crafted an absorbing young adult novel that powerfully depicts the emotional turbulence of teenage life and the difficulty of negotiating complex human relationships.