Oliver is not impressed. Brightling Middle School has a new teacher and he’s in Oliver’s own homeroom. Oliver and his reluctant friend Nathan are the kings of mischief and always ...
Twins August and Jesse ask their dad to make up a story one night, instead of them reading from a book. Dad thinks about it for a bit then decides ...
Alfred can’t see the board at school. His mum decides to take him to an optometrist (eye doctor) in town. The optometrist looks baffled at first as Alfred and his ...
Alex Neptune lives in a seaside town called Haven. Tourists used to flock to the beautiful beach, enjoy the ocean and spend their holidays there. Alex has never been one ...
Flaxseed, or Flax as her friends call her, lives in the Floating Forest. This forest is high above where we humans live, and if ever seen by us, looks like ...
At only four years old Peter Lantos could feel something changing in his life in Hungary. It’s 1944, and most of his time is spent playing with his cousin Zsuzsi ...
Told in three sections by different kids living on Tūī Street in New Zealand. The Hole in the Hedge has Ella wondering about her next door neighbours. A little boy ...
Once upon a time there was a Cookie. She lived in a bakery and went to sleep each night in a cookie jar with lots of other cookies. Many of ...
It was an accident. A terrible, life-changing, accident. Hannah didn’t mean for anything to happen. She was trying to save herself. But now her life is one of guilt, isolation, ...
Sometimes we all have days when nothing is going right. But what if we tip this day on its head and go left? A young boy decides one day to ...
Friends Rāwiri and Ruby are learning about body safety, and how special their bodies are. There are special ways to keep themselves safe, and they discover what privacy, instincts and ...
1961 – Two teenage boys are excited. They creep through the night after conjuring a plan to see two girls. This plan however is playing out in East Germany where ...
Violet is excited at the upcoming visit of the Red Cross to her school. She listens carefully to the lady, learning about what the Red Cross is doing for NZ ...
Thirty years into our future, life is very different in Auckwell. Robots do everything for humans, from cooking and cleaning to developing personal AI’s to keep them company. Technology allows ...
Iris Wilkinson was also an avid writer named Robin Hyde. She was adventurous and stubborn, brave and just a little bit crazy. Her poetry won her acclaim at high school ...
Mandy Malham wants to win. Ever since she and her family moved to New Zealand from the UK, Mandy has never fitted in. All through primary she was on the ...
It is the year 2425. All digital technology is gone, and humankind is now only in the millions rather than billions. They weren’t wiped out by the rock that hit ...
Cole has a dream. More than anything, he wants to be a knight like his hero Sir Percival who is a knight of Camelot’s Round Table. So Cole decides to ...
Zoey hasn’t done her homework again. It’s not like she has time for that after school. Not after collecting her baby brother from her mother’s work, then meeting her younger ...
The rivalry between cats and dogs stretches back into forever, and it doesn’t seem to be waning any time soon. And even though dogs have evolved into large and small, the ...
11 year old Zola lives with her young friends Handsome Charlie and Mary at the St Alice Home for orphans. Handsome Charlie really isn’t, after he lost his false teeth ...
Four teenage boys: Ant – has lots of questions he wants answers to. What is virginity and when do you lose it? Is it only when you’ve been with a ...
Anahera is about to go on a very special journey. It begins with a song of farewell from her mokopuna, children, cousins and whānau. They have gathered to say farewell ...
The year is 2043, and the world as we know it is gone. We no longer rule the world. That honour now belongs to a fly/bee mutant that originated from ...
Zofia loves her life in her small coastal town with her Dad. It has been just her and her father since she was a baby, after losing her mum. They ...
The only thing 14 yr old Miles is interested in when he moves with his family to Coromandel (NZ) is the land around their new home. But this new home ...