Show and Tell is always hard for Lily. Other kids have exciting objects or exotic animals to bring along to class, when Lily’s best offering is a weird shaped potato. ...
Greg is pondering a life of fame and fortune, quickly realising that your life is not your own – having to sign autographs, smile constantly even if you don’t feel ...
Damsa looks around a strange gated compound, not sure what to think. She has been on the streets for the last few days, alone and afraid after running away from ...
Corpse is lonely on her rock that isn’t there. That is, it’s there, until you look away – and then it vanishes from your mind. Corpse once had a friend ...
Oliver kitten began life in a fire engine, living with his mum and many siblings. It’s not until he’s rescued then adopted by a family of six humans that his ...
In a time long before pakeha strode Aotearoa, 12 year old Te Kawenga is busy fetching water from a nearby spring. Others are also there this early in the morning, ...
Beginning with a rainbow, this picture book explores many emotions we all experience. Ten feelings are shared with a rhyme on the left page and an illustration of a child ...
Barnaby Brocket has always been a bit different. From the moment he was born, his mortified parents realised that their third child wasn’t normal. Alastair and Eleanor Brocket pride themselves ...
Hex (Hector), doesn’t know why he does the stupid things he does. They just happen – without thought or planning. Sure he ends up in the principal’s office more than ...
There once was a small town far in the West, that bordered a forest. The townsfolk believed the forest was haunted but they would still cross the river to take ...
Life is tough for Ettie Shaw, her mother and big brother Joe. Moving to a one room home with no stove to cook on and barely anything to their name ...
Tennessee USA has been the target of a serial kidnapper since June 1 2001. Boys are taken, but miraculously returned to their families a year later. As boys vanish over ...
Faith’s first view of their new home of Vale is through grey fog shrouding the island. When on land, they discover their new house is barely serviced with servants, with ...
Jack is looking forward to his summer break – weeks of hanging out with his best friend Bunny, playing baseball and school-free days. If only he hadn’t taken out his ...
27 New Zealanders who have strived and achieved great things in sport, business, science, dance, film, politics, broadcasting, computers, singing, journalism, comedy, acting and so much more, are asked about ...
Phoenix lives with his four siblings, their Gran and long-suffering aunt Josie who isn’t impressed at being lumbered with her dead sister’s children. Phoenix is her least favourite as he’s ...
Lily has a super power – invisibility. At least that’s how she’s always felt. Her big sister Sam teases her calling her a QAD – Quiet Asian Girl, seeming to ...
Madeline Moore has her life all worked out. She is going to go to college (because the aunt that raised her says she has to), but then return home and ...
It’s not long into their car trip that two siblings begin to squabble in the back seat. They bickered about who will get into the car first and continue to ...
Sitting on the couch next to his Nan, Tom gives a giant yawn. “Well, you were up at sparrow fart At the cool crack of dawn,” says Nan. ...
Rabbit sits in the opening of his burrow, looking out at the trees and fields that lay in front of him. He’s already thinking that the day isn’t as good ...
It’s less than a day after arriving at their grandmother’s house in Connemara (Ireland) that Amy and her grumbling big brother Liam find the adventure Amy is determined to have. ...
Maybelline Chen loves her big brother Danny. He’s always been at her side, from when she was just a bump to now as a junior in High School. Their parents ...
Little Baa Baa & Quirky Turkey are back! Quirky Turkey is a bit cross. Little Baa Baa has pulled not one, but two tricks on him. First it was a ...
It’s 7pm and time for Alice Bee to go to bed. Her parents call “Goodnight!” and her cat Jiffy purrs his own message. It’ll be time soon for him to ...
Kaewa Kororā (little blue penguin) is swimming when suddenly she is dashed against the sand on the sea floor. Ow! Her flipper is sore! She wakes to find herself in ...
Kellen and Nettle are only fifteen years old – practically only children, living in a country called Raddith. It is a dangerous world of anger and hate. This is a ...