The release date for the English version of 'The Dead of Night' by
John Marsden is Jun 2006. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A few months after their own garden was the site of the first fighter aircraft landing, Ellie and her five fearful but resolute pals strive to live in the face of perplexing violence. Now the mountains are their home and their family are out of reach. Ellie realizes that a rescue mission is necessary when two of them become trapped behind enemy lines. It is up to Homer, the strongest and most erratic of them all, to lead. Homer is forced to disprove those who question his talents or else run the danger of losing all to the enemy.