Billarooby Author:Jim Anderson During the tumultuous summer of 1942, eleven-year-old Lindsay Armstrong confronts an exotic alien trespassing on his family's farm in Billarooby, a small town in the Australian outback. While the war may be far away, the alien Lindsay encounters -- an escaped Japanese prisoner from a nearby POW camp -- brings the traumatic repercussions of the w... more »ar close to home.
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During the Second World War a small Australian town dreads a mass escape of the Japanese POWs interned there. Meanwhile, one family's secrets are gradually uncovered.