Penguin Books Australia

Sam Fox is on a field trip with his uncle in the Amazon, when he's swept over a waterfall and lands in an underground lake. There he discovers a fortune in gold. He's rich! But things aren't that simple. There's an enormous anaconda lurking in the cave, and that's just the first obstacle Sam will have to overcome if he's to get out of the Amazon alive . . . 

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'Help me!' I gasped. 'My name is Sam Fox and I'm trapped in a truck . . .
There's a bushfire all around me!'

It's the holidays and Sam Fox has gone to the high country to stay with his grandparents. While trying to stop cattle rustlers from stealing a stud bull, an injured Sam is isolated in the mountains during a horrific bushfire. To survive, he must rely on his courage; ingenuity, and the help of...

'I didn't want to die, and I especially didn't want to be killed by a crocodile. But there was no escape.'

A robber has kidnapped Sam Fox and his cousin Nissa during a tropical cyclone. When the getaway car crashes into the raging Crocodile River, Sam and Nissa must face one ordeal after another to survive against incredible odds. Sam fights to keep his head above water and Nissa out of the jaws of...

YOU CAN'T CHANGE DIRECTION WHEN YOU'RE AIRBORNE.
ALL I COULD DO WAS PART MY LEGS SO MY SKIS LANDED ON EITHER SIDE OF THE DEVIL.
BUT NOT OUT OF RANGE OF THOSE FEARSOME JAWS.
SNAP!

Out on the ski fields, Sam Fox dodges a Tasmanian devil only to see a baby plummeting out of the sky towards him!   Before he knows it, he is on the run from kidnappers, escaping avalanches and explosions to keep a young...

THE GRIZZLY ROSE UP ON ITS HIND LEGS AND LET OUT A FEARSOME ROAR, HALFWAY BETWEEN THE BARK OF A DOG AND THE BELLOW OF A BULL.
WE WERE DEAD MEAT . . .

Sam Fox is on a trip to North America with his cub scout pack when their bus crashes down a canyon.   Some of the group are seriously injured, so Sam and two cubs set off to find help.

The whale flung itself onto the ice and came sliding up the slope on its belly. Straight towards Harry and me...

Sam Fox is on holidays with his family in Antarctica when their ski plane crashes on the ice. As the unstable iceshelf cracks apart, Sam and his younger brother become separated from the rest of the group. Before long, they're stranded on a wobbly icefloe. Just when it seems things couldn't...

The leopard crouching in the bushes looked like something out of a nightmare. One ear was gone and so was one eye, and there was no fur on half its head. The mean glint in its remaining eye told me that it was the man-eater that had killed half the village . . .

The next exciting Sam Fox adventure is set in Africa! When the tour bus takes off without him, Sam uses his wits to escape an angry mother...

There isn't really a word to describe the noise a volcano makes when it erupts. You don't just hear it, you feel it.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

A class trip to Borneo starts off with a bang – a visit to a real-life volcano! But when Mount Bako erupts, Sam Fox is left stranded with his teacher, Mr Griffin, who's suffering from a heart attack. They make it down the mountain to the cool blue sea –...

A NOISE CAME FROM INSIDE THE TRAP.  IT DIDN'T SOUND PLEASED AT ALL.
GRRRRRRRR.

Something's been taking sheep from the farms near Nullambine National Park.  Could it be the legendary Nullambine Puma?  When Mission fox set a trap to find out, they catch a whole lot of trouble . . . 

IT LOOKS LIKE THEIR  SNEAKIEST  MISSION YET . . .

A NOISE CAME FROM INSIDE THE TRAP.  IT DIDN'T SOUND PLEASED AT ALL.
GRRRRRRRR.

Something's been taking sheep from the farms near Nullambine National Park.  Could it be the legendary Nullambine Puma?  When Mission fox set a trap to find out, they catch a whole lot of trouble . . .

IT LOOKS LIKE THEIR SNEAKIEST MISSION YET . . .

'I was lost in the desert. Without transport. Without water. Without a hope.'

Sam Fox is on a caving expedition in the desert when the roof collapses, trapping his brother Nathan beneath tonnes of rubble. Nathan is in a bad way, and Sam's his only hope. But when he reaches the cave exit, Sam discovers a sea of huge, angry scorpions! And that's just the first deadly obstacle he will have to face if...

'Suddenly I was back in the blurry green undersea world. And the shark was there, too. Coming straight at me. Fast!'

Sam Fox is on holidays at the Great Barrier Reef when he and a young Japanese tourist are swept off a coral shelf by a freak wave. Before they know it, a strong current has pushed them out into open water. First Sam must fight to keep himself and his new friend from drowning; then, as...

'My little brother lay in the bottom of the basket with his head slimed sideways, I took a closer look. Jordan's face was blue . . . '

When Sam Fox's twin brothers, Harry and Jordan, are carried off in a runaway hot-air balloon, Sam tries to save them – only to end up trapped himself! What starts as a joy-ride turns into a life-and-death struggle when Jordan is bitten by a funnel-web spider...

JORDAN WATCHED THE BABY ZEBRA FOR A FEW SECONDS.  ITS EYES WERE CLOSED.  'SOMETHING'S WRONG,' HE SAID.

Harry and Jordan Fox are on a chairlift ride at Nullambine Zoo when they spy a baby zebra in danger.  It looks like a Code Bright Red mission.  Can they outrun a charging zebra and outsmart a river of hippos in time to save the baby's life?

IT LOOKS LIKE THEIR  STRIPEY-ESST...

JORDAN WATCHED THE BABY ZEBRA FOR A FEW SECONDS.  ITS EYES WERE CLOSED.  'SOMETHING'S WRONG,' HE SAID.

Harry and Jordan Fox are on a chairlift ride at Nullambine Zoo when they spy a baby zebra in danger.  It looks like a Code Bright Red mission.  Can they outrun a charging zebra and outsmart a river of hippos in time to save the baby's life?

IT LOOKS LIKE THEIR STRIPEY-ESST MISSION...