Beginning a new school is often nerve wracking and Brigette is feeling those nerves. Her new house feels weird without her friends around to share it with and the first ...
Atarangi‘s 12th birthday was only two weeks ago, and also her first day in Gabriel’s Gully. She’s come with her mother Hinewai, looking for her father. He had left on ...
Life has been good in Gabriel’s Gully for friends, Atarangi and Michael. Michael’s dad Brendan has been learning te reo Maori after meeting Atarangi’s mum Hinewai. He’s even built a ...
Life is good for Michael, Atarangi and Siu. They have been travelling at a relaxed pace with Atarangi’s mum and uncle, and Michael & Siu’s fathers. Ending up in the ...
Leonora and Minna are pleased their battle with the Orphan Master is over and they both survived – just. Now best friends after going through something so awful, they now ...
Beginning with a powerful foreword by the master of middle-grade novels about war – Michael Morpurgo, we are soon with a 12-year-old Ukranian girl as she wakes on her 12th ...
Pa Bear is in the loo. He has a problem. There is no toilet paper left on the roll! The Bear family and friends gather at the sound of his ...
Bat and Kiwi are back in superhero mode in the New Zealand bush. They leap into action when a cry is heard through the bush. “Help! Emergency!” They find Tuatara ...
Greedy Cat is not happy. His home is different. A strange tree is where his favourite chair used to be. There are gifts under the tree, but none of them ...
Boingo is holding his most favourite thing in the world – his golden balloon. But suddenly, a gust of wind takes it, sending it up in the air. Boingo follows ...
For as long as they can remember, the Protectorate has been under a fog. Not just in a weather sense where a greyness blocks the sunshine from reaching this town, ...
Bug loves her big drafty house in Vermont where the doors creak shut on their own, a window might close or a touch of something brushes across her in the ...
Maddy Washington has always tried to be invisible ever since going to school for the first time at age twelve. Keen to finally be with other kids her own age, ...
They shouldn’t have opened the crate. Dad did tell them to leave it alone until he returned from work at the hospital, but Amy, Danny and their cousin Jack were ...
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 ...
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 ...
Once there was darkness. Nothing… no time or space… The darkness becomes night and then more. The land – Papatūānuku and the sky Ranginui came to be. Holding tight to ...
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 ...