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* Contents derived from the Charnwood,Belconnen area,Canberra,Australian Capital Territory,:Ginninderra Press,2006 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Thirteen-year-old Jacob's brother Joey visits Bali for a surfing trip and is killed in the 2002 Bali bombings. Jacob and his father go to Bali to locate Joey's body. There they meet Agung, whose own son, Wayan, was also killed in the blast. Four years later, Jacob returns to Bali.
'Lhotse speaks by cell phone to her father who's dying in a blizzard on Mount Everest. Three months later she walks up Nepal's Everest Track to view that mountain and share her thoughts' (back cover blurb).
A Tasmanian boy whose grandfather died in the Vietnam War visits the Cu Chi tunnels in Vietnam, from which the Viet Cong conducted some of their campaign. On the tour, he meets up with a Vietnamese-Australian girl and an American man, both of whom have their own connections to the tunnels.
'A friendship develops between a panic-struck girl going for her first driver's licence and an old widower who's obliged to renew his licence annually' (source: back cover).
