Middle School: Escape to Australia
Author: James Patterson
Illustrator: Daniel Griffo
Book 9 in the Middle School series
Pages: 288
Published: 2017
Age: 9+
Rafe Khatchadorian, everyone's favorite underdog hero, is headed to the dangerous wilds of Australia!
Rafe isn't exactly considered a winner in Hills Village Middle School to say the least, but everything's about to change: he's won a school-wide art competition, and the fabulous prize is getting to jet off to Australia for a whirlwind adventure!
But Rafe soon finds that living in the Land Down Under is harder than he could've ever imagined: his host-siblings are anything but welcoming, the burning temperatures are torturous, and poisonous critters are ready to sting or eat him at every step. So with the help of some new misfit friends, Rafe sets out to show everyone what he does best: create utter mayhem!
About the Middle School Series
Books in series order
- 1.Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life(2011)
- 2.Middle School: Get Me Out of Here!(2012)
- 3.Middle School: My Brother is a Big, Fat Liar(2013)
- 4.Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill(2013)
- 5.Middle School: Ultimate Showdown(2014)
- 6.Middle School: Save Rafe!(2014)
- 7.Middle School: Just My Rotten Luck(2015)
- 8.Middle School: Dog's Best Friend(2016)
- 9.Middle School: Escape to Australia(2017)
- 10.Middle School: From Hero to Zero(2018)
- 11.Middle School: Born to Rock(2019)
- 12.Middle School: Master of Disaster(2020)
- 13.Middle School: Field Trip Fiasco(2021)
- 14.Middle School: It's a Zoo in Here!(2022)
- 15.MIddle School: Winter Blunderland(2022)
- 16.Middle School: Million Dollar Mess(2024)
- 17.Too Uncool For School(2025)
- +Middle School: Going Bush(2016)
- +Middle School: How I Got Lost in London(2014)
- +Middle School: Rafe's Aussie Adventure(2015)
Reading age: 8–12 years
This series should be read in order.
Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he's got an ace plan for the best year ever, if only he can pull it off...
With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school's oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class – 5,000 points! Running in the hallway – 10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm – 50,000 points! But when Rafe's game starts to catch up with him, he'll have to decide if winning is all that matters, or if he's finally ready to face the rules, bullies, and truths he's been avoiding.
Acclaimed author James Patterson delivers a genuinely hilarious – and surprisingly poignant – series about a wildly imaginative, one-of-kind kid that you won't soon forget.
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