Sarah Matahari Lorelai Piggins is one of 15. Her mother is a great mum, but her siblings not so much. Her 13 sisters are all evilly inclined, and her brother ...
When Frankie’s Mama’s vase breaks, so it seems does her family. Dad left with his belongings and Nan came to stay, tidying the broken pieces away. Frankie knew it was ...
Mrs McGinty and the Bizarre Plant – A grumpy lady in a New Zealand town was a terrible grump. She complained about everything, which gave the local children in her ...
Tawaki is a Fiordland Crested Penguin making his way down to the ocean. His distinctive yellow feathers across both sides of his head give him his name, as Tawaki means ...
Blue and Herschell are great mates, even if they are very different. Herschell is confident and crazy for a console game called Quillhog. Blue is quiet and organised as his ...
Maddison is excited about the coming A&P (agricultural & pastoral) Show coming to Wanaka. She knows there is much more to look at than cows and sheep, and she herself ...
It’s the last thing Maddie expects when she drops her border collie named Ruby off at Doggy Daycare on the way to school. Popping in to see the owner’s new ...
Anne Frank didn’t always live in the annex above her father’s business, hiding away with her family and others from the Nazi’s relentless pursuit of anyone Jewish. When she was ...
Callie is still angry at her dad for moving them both to Northern Ireland from London. She feels she has left everyone she knows and loved behind in the city she ...
Rosa, Tilly, Oskar, Milo and Alessia stand in the portal to the great magician, Merlin’s world. But somehow it doesn’t feel right. There are tourists everywhere, not knights and fair ...
Middle schooler Tara has one year left before high school. At least that was the plan, until her principal called her and two other students to her office. As high ...
Archie Pages finally wakes from his slumber, but the Pages family aren’t out of danger. The Alchemist is unpredictable in his desire for more power and one special book he ...
At Dogtown, Mouse is to his mouse buddies what Chance used to be to the dogs locked in their cages, (in Book 1). Just like Chance used to sort squabbles ...
Silver is just as surprised as her mother to learn that her dad has accepted a three month artist position in Costa Rica. It seems a world away from their ...
It’s time for bed. A young child gets ready for bed, with his parents help. This begins with a look out of the window at the darkening sky, after returning ...
A multi generational tale of a family, across continents, through love stories within love stories. There are quests, mysteries, broken hearts and singing ones. There are fathers lost and fathers ...
A gift of a special seed begins a journey of both a family and a young sapling through generations. Standing by the sea in front of a holiday bach, the ...
This full colour hardback is a wild and wacky, perfectly silly and always entertaining, collection of Joy Cowley’s rhymes, poems and very short stories. Upside down toads, witchy traffic jams, ...
Friends Kai, Harry and Charley are on their way to a martial arts contest at Folksville County Fair. They’ve only just settled into their seats on the train, when a ...
Kea are cheeky birds, but Wānanga is cheekier than most. Only he would be brave enough among his feathered friends to hop up into the caravan of a human friend. ...
Tasting with your feet? We can’t taste with our feet but some animals can! Humans seem the cleverest of the world’s creatures, but we only have 5 senses. Animals have ...
An invitation is given on the very first page… ‘Come! Let’s slip down the end of the garden, we’ll beat a new path, where the path doesn’t go.’ ...
Vega has always seen them. Strange creatures in her home, on the way to school and everywhere she goes. There is a bear in the bath, tiny horses, and creatures ...
Emerson Bell – Dropped out of school and spends all her time holed up in her room, gaming. She no longer gets on with her parents, especially her mum, and ...
Bella doesn’t really think about why she began drinking. Now at 15, it feels like she has known nothing else. Her drink of choice is Sprodka – a mix of ...
Crystal is the quiet one in her friend group. She calls them friends but only Gayle is truly a friend. Trevor is polite to her, Harmony barely speaks to her ...
After enjoying a special camp for children and teens with differences, Melody is enjoying life more than ever. Being able to do things that other children do at summer camps ...
Year 12. Layla’s final year at her Australian high school. It lay ahead of her like a red carpet into her future. Layla’s a hard worker, driven and confident within ...
Clem is loving her 15th birthday party. Among the guests are her best friends Mischa and Danny, her dad who always makes a huge fuss of her birthday since mum ...