The Dead of Night (The Tomorrow Series #2) - Teen Dystopian Adventure Novel - Perfect for Book Clubs & YA Readers

Book number two of a seven book young adult action adventure fiction series. I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Scholastic Paperbacks in 2006 that I bought on Amazon. The first book in the series was actually published in 1993, this book was first published in 1996. I have ordered books #3, and #4 in the series for future reading. Books #3 and #4 are out of print so I had to order used copies.At the middle of their high school senior year in Australia, a group of seven 17 and 18 year old teenagers decide to go camping in the bush for a week before school restarts. They gather up their sleeping bags and supplies and go way out into the bush, actually at the edge of the desert in a place known as Hell. After a difficult trip by Land Rover and a long walk, they camp next to a spring fed stream. When they return to Ellie's farm after a week, her family is missing and the farm dogs are dead on their chains. They find out that Australia has been invaded by an Asian nation and that their families are being held captive at the town fairgrounds. The Asian forces have taken the airports first and then the cargo shipping ports. The justification of the invasion is that the Asian nation needs the extensive natural resources of Australia.Ellie and her friends venture out into town and destroy a bridge leading into town from the seaport. Ellie and her friends venture back out again and destroy a convoy heading into town. They continue to cause general mayhem for the invading forces.The first book in the series was made into a film of the same name in 2010.