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Trouble Tomorrow is a novel for young adults, set during the Sudanese Civil War. Obulejo, a sixteen-year-old Ma'di boy, whose name translates as 'trouble tomorrow', is asleep in the dormitory of his boarding school when the town is attacked by Rebel troops. Separated from family and close friends, Obulejo flees into the hills, and then makes a terrifying journey, full of danger from wild animals and pursuing soldiers. Once across the border in a refugee camp, he is safer but has no future among them - until he joins a pioneering peace education program and begins to find ways create a more hopeful life for himself and others.

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They huddle low, nostrils burning from the smoke. A wave of despair flows over Tye. Nothing will survive this firestorm. The bush and everything she loves will be lost. It's the summer holidays, and Tye is staying at her grandparents' lodge at Chancy's Point in Tasmania's beautiful Central Highlands. But her plans for fun with best friend Lily and working on her pencil pine conservation project are thwarted as fire threatens the community and the bush she loves - and when Tye discovers Bailey, a runaway boy hiding out, she is torn between secretly helping him and her loyalty to her grandparents.As the fire comes closer and evacuation warnings abound, Tye is caught up in the battle of her life. Will she and Bailey survive? What will happen to her beloved pencil pines and the wildlife at risk? Can she and her close-knit community make a difference in a world threatened by climate change?

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