Author(s): James Patterson

Junior Fiction

Rafe Khatchadorian is heading back to Australia for a field trip full of adventure and mischief.

It's fair to say that Rafe's last trip Down Under could not easily be called a success: in Australia he and his Mom were forced to flee a pack of bloodthirsty zombies after the 'performance piece' by Rafe and The Outsiders traumatised Shark Bay (aka 'Australia's Bravest Town'). But when Rafe receives an offer to attend all-expenses paid 'Cultural Campout' in the Northern Territory, Australia, he takes precisely six seconds to say 'yes'.

What happens next is full-throttle adventure in the Australian outback, and Rafe will have to draw on every bit of his Aussie experience to make it out alive.

Previously published in Australia as Middle School: Going Bush.