Spotty is a zebra. Everyone knows zebras have stripes not spots! Spotty really doesn’t like her spots, especially when other zebras are unkind. She doesn’t like being different from her ...
Urgh, aren’t Monday mornings the worst? This is what Felix is thinking as his dad yells for him to get up. His little brother Olly doesn’t help, following him around ...
It’s 1860 and Kofi loves life in his village. He is 11 years old, keen to be a man, and likes a girl named Ama. He’s a little tongue-tied around ...
Mark can’t think of anything better to do with a beautiful day – go tramping. He texts his mates, and one replies, also keen for an overnight stay in the ...
Cousins Pipi and Pou are looking forward to their Nana’s delicious rhubarb and apple pie when news of a natural disaster hits their TV screen. Nana looks closer, and seems ...
No one believes cousin Rāwiri when he tells them he saw a woman in the forest. He’s in trouble again, and his mum thinks he’s just trying to blame someone ...
Eve loves her mother, Queen Regina, intensely. Especially since she lost her other mother to a sorcerer’s spell. This cursed mother still remains with them in their castle, but now it ...
Mama Duck is busy counting her eggs when she realises she has an extra. It doesn’t look like her eggs and she wonders where it came from? She keeps it ...
Sawyer isn’t surprised when her mother calls her to say she’ll be away for a couple of days. After all, she has left Sawyer on her own before. Now that ...
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 ...
Sel has moved on after discovering a secret so big about his life in small town Tremorglade, that he and the outside world will never be the same again. Now ...
Anthony Randall knows his strengths. He’s good at basketball, Chemistry, Science and Maths, and so a low grade at Language Arts doesn’t bother him much. But his mum has other ...
A young girl relishes the thought of the upcoming school holidays – sleep ins, no spelling tests and no books! But wait. What? They have to read a book in ...
Having to move isn’t fun for Josh and his family, but their landlord wants their home back. Josh is even less impressed when they arrive at their new home. It’s ...
It’s been six years since Coyote Sunrise and her dad Rodeo lost their mum and wife. Coyote is finally in school after travelling around and being home schooled on their ...
Jellybean is a serious kitten. Everything he does in life is based on his future as a detective. In fact, even as only a kitten he has already solved his ...
Watson loves to find things. His owner Jon throws ball after ball for his young dog to fetch, and time after time he returns, earning his name from Watson the detective, ...
It’s raining, and for Will on the way to school, that means a wet sock. He has a split across the sole of one of his shoes, so a wet ...
Kayla is a Skyrider, her bond with her pangron like nothing else in her life. He is called Faro and like Kayla, loves to be high above their home of ...
A new tree is planted every time someone is born on Ayla’s street. There are trees, tall and strong, planted way back when Ayla’s Pop was born, and Ayla and ...
Haeta te Kapua is watching her Nanny Rina make a net. She has a special room where she likes to weave, with supplies of flax leaves and fibres, and supplejack ...
Have you ever seen a Dizzy Waggle? These are tiny fluffy creatures with big eyes, ears and a tail covered with fluff right to it’s tip. They come in lots ...
Thea the Tūī loves to sing from her nest in a pohutakawa tree. Brite the Dizzy Waggle loves to listen to her, and hangs out under Thea’s tree most days. ...
The Dizzy Waggles are playing a game. They are picking up balls and throwing them through a hanging loop made of sticks. It’s lots of fun for everyone except for ...
A wolf wakes from his slumber. This isn’t just any wolf. This is THE Big Bad Wolf of Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs fame. It is ...
Families are made up in many different ways. There are mums, dads and children. There are children with just a mum, or a dad, or even grandparents. Sometimes a parent ...
Nesbit is pleased to be accepted by a group of kids at his new high school. They are different from anyone he’s known and even into witchery. In fact, when ...
Do you believe in ghosts? Natalie has been asked this question before and is in the ‘definitely not’ camp of thinking. She does however, love anything scary, and she and ...
Ruatapu the Ravenous has the Astromancer Te Kо̄kо̄rangi and her three priests locked in a pit as the nine stars of Matariki begin to appear. There will be no one ...