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The Dead of Night
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The Tomorrow Series: Book 2

The Dead of Night (1994) (edit title/settings)

by John Marsden (Author) (edit contributors)

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A few months after the first fighter jets landed in their own backyard, Ellie and her five terrified but defiant friends struggle to survive amid a baffling conflict. Their families are unreachable; the mountains are now their home. When two of them fall behind enemy lines, Ellie knows what... read more

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  • “Girls are funny, the way they tell each other all stuff like that”
    Lee
  • “Spider bungy-jumping”
    Lee
  • “It was like being back in a school assembely”
    Ellie
  • “People were keeping each other prisoner, hurting each other, killing each other, but we'd retreated to the paradise of Hell.”
    Ellie
  • “Humans do such terribe things to each other that sometimes my brain tells me they must be evil. But my heart still isn't convinced.”
    Ellie
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  • Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.
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  • Sometimes you just have to be brave. You have to be strong. Sometimes you just can't give in to weak thoughts. You have to beat down those devils that get inside your head and try to make you panic. You struggle along, putting one foot a little bit ahead of the other, hoping that when you go backwards it won't be too far backwards, so that when you start going forwards again you won't have too much to catch up. That's what I've learned.
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  • For a moment a new world opened in my mind, where I was an adult, working hard, holding a group of people together, being a leader. With a shock I realised I was thinking about parenthood.
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First Sentence edit see section history

Damn this writing.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 2 of 7 in The Tomorrow Series. (standard series)

Preceded by Tomorrow, When the War Began, and followed by The Third Day, The Frost.

This is book 10 of 216 in Whitcoulls Kids' Top 50 (2011). (authoritative list)

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  1. John Marsden (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Country: Australia
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0395837340
Page Count: 288

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Reading Level: Young Adults

- There is a sex scene in this book and sex references, you should probably know this. It doesn't dominate the book, and there aren't any other scenes in any of the other books in the series

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