TY - BOOK AU - Marsden,John TI - Incurable T2 - The Ellie chronicles SN - 9781405036993 U1 - A823.4 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Sydney PB - Macmillan KW - Survival KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Secrets KW - War stories KW - gsafd N2 - YA. Aust'n author. "I held my line. I knew from the war, if not from shooting rabbits, that we were safe enough for the first moments. It is too impossible to hit a target like us from a helicopter. But maybe this guy had new equipment or maybe he was a brilliant shot or maybe he was just plain lucky. Bullet holes tore through the ute like a huge metal-punch was suddenly and roughly slamming a simultaneous line of them from our rear to our front." Ellie has struggled to put the war behind her and lead a normal life. Although what's normal about your parents having been murdered; trying to run a farm and go to school; and bringing up a young boy who's hiding terrible secrets about his past? 12 yrs+ ER -