John Marsden Books in Order

After a traumatic attack leaves her scarred and silent, Marina is sent to a girls' boarding school and begins writing in a journal. It is a quiet, piercing novel about trauma, trust, and finding a way back to speech.

Erle Gatenby is sent to boarding school to be straightened out, but rebellion is far more his style. Funny, messy, and very Australian, it follows a boy with too much energy for the rules around him.

An accessible, heavily illustrated introduction to Bede and the world of early medieval England. Translated excerpts and photographs help bring an old chronicler, and his times, into clearer view.

Two teenage girls begin a pen pal friendship that feels casual at first, then increasingly strange and urgent. As their letters pile up, Marsden turns ordinary confession into suspense.

Lisa's journal offers another view of Warrington and Marina's story, while also revealing Lisa's own family strain and private fears. It is a companion novel that widens the emotional world of *So Much to Tell You*.

Marsden shares practical, direct lessons on language, reading, craft, and how writers learn to notice the world. It is lively, useful, and full of the kind of advice that makes you want to start writing straight away.

A camping trip ends with Ellie and her friends returning to a silent town and the discovery that Australia has been invaded. With their families missing, they have to learn fast how to hide, think, and fight back.

Ellie and her friends briefly find food, orders, and adult allies in a resistance camp. But when that support proves shaky, they are forced to trust their own instincts and fight on their own terms.

Six months into the war, Ellie's group is exhausted, sick, and carrying fresh grief. As winter bites and danger tightens, one mission changes the shape of their fight.

It is your first day at a new school, and almost anything can happen. This interactive, choose your own adventure style story turns embarrassment, disaster, and luck into fast, funny chaos.

A girl in psychiatric care tries to piece together the family violence and shock that put her there. Her love for her dog, Checkers, sits at the center of a tense, painful story about fear, guilt, and blame.

Hiding in Hell, Ellie and the group face hunger, boredom, fear, and the strain of waiting. When action comes, it forces them to confront how much the war has changed them, and what they may have to become.

A diary style school story about boredom, curiosity, and the everyday drama of family, classmates, and strange neighbours. Marsden keeps the humour brisk while nudging the story toward real trouble.

A funny school story about getting through Year Five one day at a time. Marsden nails classroom chaos, family life, and the small disasters that feel enormous when you are a kid.

Back in Hell after a failed escape and a brutal battle, Ellie and the others are restless, angry, and ready to strike back. Revenge, grief, and risk push the war onto even more dangerous ground.

Tony writes letters to Miffy from a place where anger, guilt, sex, and despair are all tangled together. It is raw, unsettling, and built around a voice that hurts even when it jokes.

A group of teenage hikers are caught in a blizzard and shelter in a remote mountain hut with a silent stranger. What begins as survival turns into an eerie ghost story that lingers well after the snow clears.

A spare, thoughtful picture book that turns modern hopes and anxieties into a prayer. It asks for peace, safety, compassion, and a future in which children can live without fear.

Marsden speaks directly to boys about sex, friendship, family, responsibility, and what growing into a decent man might look like. It is frank, opinionated, and meant to start real conversations.

Freedom feels close, but nothing is safe yet. Ellie and the others are pulled into one of their most dangerous missions, and the cost of staying alive, and staying human, keeps getting heavier.

This haunting picture book tells a story of colonisation through the arrival of rabbits in another land. Simple words and striking images build a powerful tale about invasion, loss, and dispossession.

The final Tomorrow novel drives Ellie and her friends toward the end of the war. Hope is finally visible, but so are loss, sacrifice, and the hard truth that survival has already changed them forever.

Marsden looks back at the stories behind his bestselling books, explaining where ideas came from and how they changed on the page. It is a useful backstage tour for longtime fans and curious writers.

At sixteen, Winter returns to the family estate she barely remembers, determined to understand what happened to her parents. What she finds is a damaged house, uneasy caretakers, and secrets that refuse to stay buried.

Marsden wanders through the mind, culture, politics, religion, and everyday questions in short, lively pieces. It is part brain tour, part notebook of ideas, and part conversation starter.

A warm, playful picture book that follows one child's day from waking up to bedtime. Small routines and big feelings turn ordinary moments into a cheerful portrait of everyday life.

Ellie is finally back on the farm she fought for, and for a moment it looks like life might settle. Then fresh tragedy and border tensions drag her into a new kind of war, one built from grief, duty, and survival.

Ellie is trying to live an ordinary life after the war, running a farm, going to school, and caring for Gavin. But the past refuses to stay buried, and the new peace proves fragile, dangerous, and deeply personal.

Ellie is still trying to hold together a farm, a family, and a future when fresh violence crashes in again. The final Ellie Chronicles book pushes her into one more brutal fight, where courage may not be enough.

This retelling keeps the murder, the ghost, and the pressure of revenge, but makes the story immediate and accessible. Marsden focuses on Hamlet's grief, indecision, and the wreckage those emotions leave behind.

This picture book imagines an Australian family forced to flee war and seek safety somewhere else. By reversing a familiar refugee story, it asks readers to think hard about fear, borders, and what home really means.

Marsden turns to history to trace Somerled's life and the Norse-Gaelic world around him. It is a focused study of power, identity, and the making of medieval Gaelic Scotland.

Marsden reworks Shakespeare's tragedy into a tense, readable novel for younger readers. Hamlet is grieving, furious, and pulled toward revenge, while Ophelia and the people around him are caught in the damage that follows.

Josh's family has landed in the dull town of Tarrawagga, and everything about his new life feels wrong. As school humiliations, a creepy house next door, and a secret talent for cricket collide, fitting in gets a lot more complicated.

Barnaby Fletch, a hungry London orphan in the late 1700s, thinks transportation to Botany Bay might save him. The voyage and the colony teach him how wrong, and how dangerous, that dream can be.

Marsden reflects on education, parenting, childhood, schools, and what it really means to become an adult. It is part memoir, part argument, and part challenge to many comfortable ideas about growing up.

A playful children's story that tips the everyday world into wonder. Marsden fills it with surprise, imagination, and the feeling that one strange room might change everything.

Everybody says Millie is a perfectly good little girl, but the pictures tell a funnier story. It is a mischievous picture book about appearances, everyday chaos, and the steady love of parents who know their child well.