It’s a cold winter’s night in Pōneke (Wellington) when a little blue penguin (Kororā) decides to go for a walk. Leaving the beach, she waddles across a road to a ...
Chase has always been fascinated in the paranormal, and since junior year has worked on his YouTube channel about ghost hunting. Hunting for subscribers has taken over friendships outside the ...
War is coming. Everybody says so. Noah doesn’t like his dad leaving to fight Hitler, but must accept it. Just before he leaves, Dad makes a deal with Noah. If ...
The sun in sinking in the sky, yawning as it goes. “It’s time for kisses, cuddles, and whānau snuggles.” The people of NZ and all its creatures are settling in ...
Kathleen, who much prefers the name Cricket by the way, is disappointed. Her best friend is going to Hawaii for her school holidays. Where is Cricket going? An island. Not ...
Ten Blocks in a neighbourhood. Ten stories. Each one about kids hanging with their friends at school then walking home afterwards. This is the time secrets are shared, deals are ...
Wylah (Wheel-la) is preparing her new art lessons for the children of her tribe. She learnt how to cave paint from her grandmother who is their tribe leader. Wylah is ...
Siblings go to stay with their much loved grandmother, but as grandmother’s often do, she can see something isn’t quite right. Sure enough the next day they both have a ...
Chloe Green’s nemesis is Shara Wheeler. Chloe moved from California to Alabama four years ago, because her grandmother was sick. Years before, one of Chloe’s mums went to Willowgrove Christian ...
Tim Te Maro attends Fox Glacier High School in the Sth Island of NZ. It isn’t any ordinary school, but is secretly run deep underground, below a frozen river. This ...
Room 117 – Greenwich Middle School Strong, silent Elaine (rhymes with pain). This is what everyone at Greenwich Middle School whispers after ever speaking her name. Everyone knows you don’t ...
Zellidora (Zelli) Stormclash attends Dungeon Academy, a boarding school where all types of monsters go to learn how to lurk, sneak, roar, fight, and all other things monstrous. Both of ...
When Limpet moves to the little seaside town of Splottpool, he’s worried. Limpet has always been a worrier and looking at the tiny shop that is to be his mum’s ...
Zinnia is now an expert on all things Sleeping Beauty in her real life, and inside the multiverse. She has been inside a plethora of dimensions, saving every princess she can ...
Would you like to be an adventurer? Pearly Woe would like nothing more than join her parents as Adventurologists. Pearly is in training and is talented with languages and even ...
“A new start,” said Mum. Refurbish an old house on the edge of a lake. Go back to her design work. Live away from Sydney. Bailey knows they need something ...
At the age of 8, Aven Green is an experienced investigator. She’s been solving mysteries for a whole month! Now faced with two mysteries at once, she has her work ...
A puppy is born and enjoys being with his mamma and brothers and sisters. But then Mamma is gone. There is no schnuffle (smell) of her anywhere on the air. ...
Daniel is sitting with his best mate Maxie in the school hall. They are mucking about while the head teacher is leading the assembly in the usual Monday morning song. ...
Ruby is tall for her age, shooting up before her middle school classmates. She used to fit in with her peers but now suffers from anxiety in social situations, blurting ...
A walk in the woods on a hiking trail. A picnic basket, laughter and love. Two teens went on the walk that day. Some said it was his idea. Some ...
Jeremy is nervous about going to a new school. Kowhai Street Primary looks nice, but what about the teachers and other children? His stomach swirls with trepidation. At the end ...
Milly has planted a little tree with her father. ‘Mulberry Tree,’ said Papa. ‘Bulberry twee,’ said Milly. As Milly grows, so does the tree, both stretching their limbs up to ...
James really didn’t want to move to Oregan, leaving his home of Texas far behind. The worst part was leaving his baseball team, his best friends, and their plans for ...
Driving down the road one day, Matt Owens stopped his firetruck. He’s seen something small crouched by the side of the road. It is a baby magpie chick, its parents ...
13 yr old Aven can’t believe she is going to have to start again. Dad has been out of work for a while, so when he gets a job as ...