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Tomorrow, When the War Began (The Tomorrow Series #1) | 
 enlarge | Author: John Marsden
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Rating:  157 reviews
Sales Rank: 29781
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0439829100
EAN: 9780439829106
ASIN: 0439829100
Publication Date: June 1, 2006
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Product Description
When Ellie and her friends go camping, they have no idea they're leaving their old lives behind forever. Despite a less-than-tragic food shortage and a secret crush or two, everything goes as planned. But a week later, they return home to find their houses empty and their pets starving. Something has gone wrong--horribly wrong. Before long, they realize the country has been invaded, and the entire town has been captured--including their families and all their friends. Ellie and the other survivors face an impossible decision: They can flee for the mountains or surrender. Or they can fight.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 152 more reviews...
Parents - take my word for it - this is legendary stuff. December 28, 1999
hugh riminton (Sydney)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I bought this for my daughter to encourage her interest in reading. We wound up fighting each other for turns at it. Within a week, with a few past-midnight "power reads" I hoed through every book in the series. The first three are superb, each better than the last. There are some niggles - the stories rely a touch too much on luck and coincidence, and there is some repetition of ideas. But the strengths are real ones. The plotting is superb - few writers in any genre can get you turning pages like Marsden can. The characters are psychologically and emotionally convincing. The heroism is fairly shared between the boys and the girls in the group. (The female narrator is a refreshing touch). Negative emotions, fear, fatigue, impatience, are not shied away from. The central device is an unexpected invasion of Australia by a foreign force which separates a group of teenagers from adult supervision, leaving them to rely on their own resources. It allows Marsden to explore real issues for teenagers about responsibility, courage, sexual attitudes - even spirituality. All are delivered without judgement or the author's baggage. The action is so exciting - real pulse-racing stuff - but from a parent's perspective it also carries an important theme: life may be difficult, threatening, even terrifying, but it is always worth living, and courage - in whatever its form - is a quality everyone can find and one that is always worth seeking out. I recommend this series to anyone, although the mild sexual references may make it more appropriate for post-pubescent readers.
So good I couldn't put it down! November 9, 1999
Rebecca Herman (USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I wasn't sure I'd like this book, but it turned out to be awesome! It was chilling because these characters, who seemed so real, were just ordinary teens who had comfortable lives until a terrible war separated them from their families and forced them to be heroes. I can't wait to read the rest of the series!
Read it! June 8, 2005
Michael (Australia)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Any teen, any adult, any grandma must read this book!!!
The whole series is absolutely amazing, I swear, I lost my life for 2 months reading these books. You probably don't need any filling in on details of what actually happens in the book, but I'll give you a brief introduction... A group of teenagers take a little holiday and come back to see their country has been invaded. Ever since I finished, (a good 2 months ago) all I have been thinking about it the books, I want to go to hell, I want to experience what they experienced myself... It's amazing what this book does to you.
Marsden has made no mistake in this book, he gave amazing descriptions, that when I saw pictures of what he had wrote about it was just what I had envisioned. When I finished I felt as though I knew the characters personally (I don't know if this was just because of the length). Dude, what more can I say, these books are amazing, they mess with your mind, you don't know how many Tomorrow Series dreams I've had since finishing, lol.
But yeah, if you walk past one of the books in your libary, or at a book store, GET IT!
I can't say I was too hapy with the sequel, 'The Ellie Chronicles', bit of a waste of time, IMO, I think if the ******* (you know what I mean, if you have read the book) happened again, just for one book it would be good.
I'm done... Now it's your turn, get it!!!
Beyond Words March 19, 2001
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have no idea how John Marsden writes such awesome books. One day in my school libray, I picked up the third book in the series. I flew through it. So, then I read all the books up untill the last three, because the last three weren't in that libray. So I bought the last three from amazon.co.uk. These books are amazing. The books in the series are:(1) Tommorrow, When The War Began (2) The Dead of The Night (3) A Killing Frost (4) Darkness, Be My Friend (5) Burning For Revenge (6) The Night Is For Hunting (7) The Other Side Of Dawn. IF YOU STILL NOT SURE IF YOU SHOULD BUY THE BOOK OR NOT, SMACK YOURSELF AND BUY IT. YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED. THESE BOOKS ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 Can't understand the Hype April 13, 2006
Lady Naava
7 out of 38 found this review helpful
I listened to the unabridged audio edition of this novel after reading the rave reviews on Amazon.Com and Audible. But quite frankly, I don't understand the hype. Perhaps because I'm not an Australian, nor am I a teenager but the world of Ellie just seemed unreal to me. Marsden's writing style (first person), was annoying, and Ellie seemed written like a boy rather than a teenage girl. I know few teenage girls who would think to turn a lawnmower into a bomb, and yet Ellie does.
Second WAY too many characters. There are like six or seven similar teenagers who could easily have been combined into one or two decent characters. It was also pretty difficult to tell them apart because Marsden rarely describes them.
Speaking as an adult American, I seriously doubt the US would let any foreign country 'invade' Australia, or that the Australian government could become so lax... I really had to suspend disbelief during the scenes where politics were discussed.
Overall, I liked the premise of this book- but the world of Ellie, the Australian slang, and the slew of clonish characters made this novel a chore to listen to. 2 stars.
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