Two boys stand on one side of a hedge. One wonders what the ‘Other’ people are thinking about on the other side? The second boy asks about the ‘Other’. ...
Sadie Jones would love to go to a ball, but can’t imagine it ever happening. When a special event is planned in the Palace where she is a kitchen maid, ...
What is Six Weeks about? 12 year old Alfie Piper is grieving the loss of his mum. He now lives with his dad and his wife Sophie and new baby sister ...
What is Thornbird about? A 17 year old girl moves back to the place her father killed 6 women, including her own mother. Hiding her identity from all but her ...
What is Max Beast – Sharknado Warning about? Max is on a trip with his parents to experience the world. On a chance scuba diving adventure together, Max meets a shark ...
Josephine Eloise Thomas (Jet) and her family have moved to France to renovate an old chateau and look for any information they can find about Jet’s mum. Jet doesn’t remember ...
Josephine and Gabriel are the talk of their little town and all of France. Defeating art thieves and enabling the return of priceless artworks thought to be lost forever has ...
What is The Girl and the Ghost (3) Grand Opening about? Josephine (Jet for short) is helping her family refurbish a French Chateau. The Grand Opening is approaching, and things ...
What is The Rebound about? A 14 year old boy aiming to play for the NBL one day, loses his father in an accident. His dad was everything to him. ...
What is Beware the Abbott Boys about? A teenage girl is found dead in the woods behind a high school. The crime has happened during school hours after a fire alarm ...
Monsieur Mustard has moved from Paris to live in the buttery coloured city of Bath in England. He is not quite the smallest detective alive, but he is definitely the ...
What is Hari Kumar Ultimate Superstar about? 10 year old Hari Kumar (75% Indian & 25% French) wants desperately to be a Bollywood Actor. Ultimate Superstar is a funny doodle-full diary ...
Frances Bloom enjoys doing things her way. Swimming in her pyjamas before school, not brushing her wild hair and wearing whatever she likes. Of course, to be able to do ...
What is Frances Bloom (2) Dangerous Days about? Frances Bloom must find a new Year 3 teacher for her class! Ms Thistle has been sent to Harsh Island and the ...
What is R.I.P Nanny Tobbins about? Nine year old Albertine’s Nanny has died. Albertine knows she will miss her, not knowing that Nanny Tobbins has no plans on leaving her. Much ...
What is Nanny Tobbins and the Midnight Plan about? Albertine’s special friend Blot is accused of stealing a rare and precious jewel from the Great Exhibition. He is thrown in ...
What is Truth Needs No Colour about? The South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand has been deemed unlivable by the NZ government after a ferocious cyclone. A large corporation named ...
Beatrice (Bea) lives with her grandfather in the land of Irpa. She helps her grandad make his potions that he sells in their shop called the Salty Pig’s Tonics and ...
Bea and Cad are still looking for her Grandfather, the Pig Wizard. After their dangerous adventure together they have discovered a village of Arsai – small wise creatures that use ...
Bea, her grandfather the Pig Wizard, and her Galdurian friend Cadwallader are in a group of refugees fleeing the battle of Rinn, and the arrival of endless darkness. Bea knows ...
What is Lightfall – A Place Between about? Bea, Cad & friends are on their way to repay a favour to one of Irpa’s spirits, named Lorgon. But they are all ...
They are talking about you They’re laughing at you You’re not good enough These are all things we’ve heard in our heads at some time, or maybe even from ...
The narrator of this picture book admits something on the 1st page. He’s a worrier. He even worries about his worrying because he knows his worries are not normal. There ...
Dame Whina Cooper is a name known across New Zealand. She is famous for leading a Hikoi (march) of 5000 people from Northland right down to Wellington to NZ Parliament ...
What is To the Death about? 10 people volunteer to be part of a televised survival competition run on an island swarming with 1000’s of Pyres – flesh eating zombies. ...
What is Cleopatra: The Girl Who Would Be King about? Cleopatra and her father (the rightful Pharoah of Egypt), have fled their palace and home as Cleopatra’s sister has taken control ...
A small girl swings her play wooden sword as her cape swooshes behind her. She holds up her shield and ROARS like a bear! Her roaring feelings suddenly fill her ...
Zeb the Zebra, Marmalade the Penguin and Barry the Lemur are standing in line. This line of animals is very, very, very long and the three friends just happen to ...
Zeb the Zebra has been having fun with his new superpower. It involves a zebra crossing and some traffic cones (witch hats) and was fun for a while. Until a ...
Some superpowers are better than none, but being able to disappear on a zebra crossing (when you’re a zebra), being able to make mac ‘n’ cheese from anything else, and ...