To be Under the Radar is all Sione wants this year. No trouble. Unfortunately, it’s only the 2nd week back at Manawahe East High School after the holidays and Sione ...
Out in the Moana is loosely based around the American Classic Over in the Meadow. This stunning Kiwi version is a window into an underwater world. Not only does it ...
Amanda is excited to see pretty purple envelopes in girl’s hands at school, then devastated not to receive her own. They are birthday invitations to a classmate’s party. Everyone knows ...
Amanda Commander is the unofficial leader of her backyard club – The Dolphin Squad. Amanda and her best friends Lu and Mai are in the same Year 3 class at ...
Amanda and her friends Mai and Lu are excited about the upcoming Year 3 school disco. Amanda has been shopping with her mum and knows exactly what she wants to ...
Isabella and her little sister Catherine aren’t sure about the move to an old homestead on an orange orchard and their stepdad even less so, but their mum has fallen ...
Lhakpa lives high in the hills of the Himalayan mountains of Nepal. His Sherpa village is celebrating with a Tibetan Festival which includes the local monks, calmly chanting their incantations. ...
A young Weka is curious and keen to explore. He sets off to find new friends and learn more about his world on the Chatham Islands (New Zealand). First he ...
A troll, a ghost and a witch hang out together but are competitive on how horrible they can be. When a girl moves into a nearby cottage, the terrible trio ...
Mina is looking forward to not having to share a bedroom with her little brother Georgie. “…he’s a wrecker.” She has to hide her treasures out of his reach. A ...
Little Pigeon has followed the other pigeons to face a very large pigeon with a clipboard. This pigeon is stern and after one look has decided that Little Pigeon will ...
13 year old Molly just wants to be normal. Having to wear a full fish costume and hand out flyers to locals who probably have binned dozens before, is humiliating. ...
Duck lives in a shaded backyard, never seeing the sun. She needs a crutch to walk and has no visitors, so she is a bit lonely. Still, the backyard is ...
Celia is making a nest. She is surveying the sea below her, looking out for items to help with its building. There is lots of flotsam on the waves. Not ...
It’s the end of the day in Pikitea Street. Night has fallen and dinner is done, and now many children are getting ready for bed. Nikau’s Kui is tucking her ...
Star Boy and others in his class were observing Earth when some of his classmates play up in class and wreak havoc with Earth’s atmosphere. A terrible storm floods the ...
Mina and her mother are visiting Kyoto, Japan for the very first time. They love the exotic and tasty food. the hustle and bustle of the city and the silent ...
Eliza, her husband Ross and teenage children Jesse and Eva are at home in their family bubble. It is the first week of the March 2020 Covid-19 national lockdown of ...
High in an apartment block, there are two apartments side by side. In one is a boy who plays a violin. Next door is a girl who plays a cello. ...
Indigo is the daughter of two enhanced humans who were virally optimised in experiments over 30 years before. She is 17, immortal and will not age after her 18th birthday. ...
When Grandma sees Grandpa’s slippers on his feet one morning, she realises how old they are. There are holes in the soles and the stitching is coming undone. But Grandpa ...
When Īhaka answers the loud knocking on the front door, the last person he expects is the Māori god of weather – Tāwhirimātea! Tāwhirimātea needs Īhaka’s help. He has lost ...
Four children set off for school in their small rural village. Two of them have the surname O’Hero and two the surname Smith. Even so, they are all part of ...
Brynn never thought she’d come back to her home town of Sturgis. After all, so many teens her age dream of a time when they can leave the going nowhere ...
A young girl called Sarah has just moved into a new house with her mum and dad. It’s a very different house. This is a house with long hallways and ...
Luis Gonzales is gay, loud and proud. He is a mover and shaker at his high school and desperately angling for Prom King. His best friend Nix is non-binary and ...
Natalia has never been hiking before, and when her co worker Wyatt finds out he vows to remedy that. What Wyatt doesn’t know is that Natalia has spent nearly ten ...
Miri feels like her body has been kidnapped over the past two years. At 12 she was thin, flat chested and happy in her own skin. Then puberty hit along ...
Donovan knew something was up when his mum stood between him and the TV one night after school. She was holding his new English text in her hands asking, “What ...