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<p>When Maya leaves Chicago armed with an important Aussie must-do list, she assumes she's heading to Barangaroo with its beautiful Sydney Harbour views--NOT Barangaroo Creek, a fly-ridden, wi-fi dead zone hours from a decent body of water. Like that's not bad enough, her home-stay host brother Gus clearly wishes she'd landed in somebody else's sheep paddock.<br> Gus has important plans this summer-- plans that do NOT involve helping an animal-phobe from the States tick off items on her seriously clichéd must-do list. So he devises a list of his own--one guaranteed to send Maya packing, allowing him to enjoy the last of his freedom before he trudges off to agricultural college.<br> But Maya doesn't scare that easily and soon sparks fly. Before long, Gus and Maya discover hidden depths to clichéd bucket-lists and secret summer plans. Because sometimes it takes someone half a world away to remind you why you're really here.</p><p> </p>