Books with title Dazed Down Under

H2 Uh Oh... On vacation in Australia, Sabrina joins up with Gwen, the British witch she met on her last vacation in Rome. Together they explore the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef, go on a deep-sea dive with famous marine biologist Dr. Julian Martin, and meet the mysterious and very cute Barnaby...who turns out to be a merman! However, something's fishy when a strange sea virus threatens the local aquatic population. Sabrina and Gwen vow to restore the ocean to its original glory, especially since the disease is affecting their new friend Barnaby. The young witches must find a way to help the doomed sea creatures and at the same time, protect the secrecy of the mer-species...

Amprenula, a young Tiwi girl from an island off the Australian coast, gathers food with her mother. Amprenula lives closely with the land, just as her people have done for thousands of years, taking only what they need from the forest and the ocean around them. For the Tiwi and other Aborigines, the land is sacred. It connects them with their ancestors and the beginning of creation. As Amprenula combs through the forests and mangrove swamps, she is proud to travel along the same paths, sharing the same land, as her ancestors from centuries ago.

After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. It has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way that anywhere else. Yet when Bill Bryson travelled to Australia he promptly fell in love with the country. And who can blame him? The people are cheerful, the cities safe and clean, the food is excellent, the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines. He tries to find out why Aussies are so cool, digging up a past that reveals convicts, explorers, gold diggers and outlaws.

Mac and Lauren is the brainchild of Lisa Dennis, the wife of Team McLaren Mercedes CEO Ron Dennis. She has created a fantasy world of Grand Prix racing action where the cars are the stars! The cars are caged in on the long flight to Australia. Harry is pleased when Bruno and Maddy want to be his new best friends. But is friendship all they're after? Soon Harry's being hassled to play a dangerous joke, and it's computerised chaos on the track. As Mac struggles to help his friends, Lauren must burn down to scary Race Control to set things right -but she's helped by some special Aussie wildlife...

An arrogant scientist with delusions of grandeur, a greedy zoo director, and a boy saved from a plane crash by kangaroos are the principal characters in Mark Ricca's fascinating novel, 'Down Under'. Dr. Clifford Cunningham III perfects a formula that gives animals both intelligence and the ability to speak. He succeeds beyond his wildest dreams, since the animals also develop special talents that surpass even those of humans. However, his highly illegal DNA experiments kill many of them in the process.Cunningham never considers that once the animals become smarter, that they might decide to fight back.'Down Under' is a story about some very special animals struggling to find their place in a world dominated by humans - and to rid themselves of their oppressor Dr. Cunningham. Suitable for teens and adults.

In this series of seven books, photojournalist Jan Reynolds documents the distinctive cultures and climates of indigenous peoples. Amprenula, a young Tiwi girl from an island off the Australian coast, gathers food with her mother. Amprenula lives closely with the land, just as her people have done for thousands of years, taking only what they need from the forest and the ocean around them. For the Tiwi and other Aborigines, the land is sacred. It connects them with their ancestors and the beginning of creation. As Amprenula combs through the forests and mangrove swamps, she is proud to travel along the same paths, sharing the same land, as her ancestors from centuries ago.

When Grk sniffs some succulent sausages, he can't resist following his nose - and ends up on the other side of the world. He's in Australia, the land of surfing, sharks and the Red Jelly Gang, a ruthless band of crooks who have taken over the Sydney Opera House. Somehow, Tim will have to travel halfway around the planet, rescue his beloved dog and outwit the most wicked villains in the Southern Hemisphere.