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 ...
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 ...
Annabelle is helping her teacher clean the school house now that the summer holidays have arrived. She’s still thinking about all the trouble of only months before. The loss of her ...
Indigo is in deep trouble – with her mother and the Black Spiral Intelligence Organisation that looks after people like her. People that can read others thoughts, ‘shift’ into another ...
It’s 2094. Four decades ago, war erupted in Europe with virus laden warheads. Fleeing land, many people escaped the crisis on cruise ships. Many left the European warring nations and ...
Amorangi and his little sister Millie are walking to school with their mum when she tells them it’s a special day. Amorangi doesn’t think so with maths waiting for him ...
Paige is 18 and has made the leap into her dream life of moving to Melbourne (the independent music mecca of the world), to find a band to join with ...
Melati has kept her head down the last year at school. Nobody knows the trouble she caused in Year 9, and Year 10 at her new private school was supposed ...
Ellis’ home isn’t really a home, well not what most people would call a home. A home is walls and a roof and somewhere you return to every night. A ...
This bilingual picture book is a counting book showing the young reader or listener many different ways to see, read and hear numbers, 1 through to ten eg Each page ...
Grandpa might look like a quiet, settled gentleman as he sits with his cuppa in his favourite armchair. Don’t let his braces or comfortable green slippers fool you. Grandpa loves ...
Life has been tough for Ally and her best friend Bon. They have been homeless, living in abandoned city tunnels like hundreds of other children and teenagers. Hope for their ...
Goat likes his paddock in the country. His tiny shed is painted the same pink as the house on the hill. He spends his time dancing, counting cars and making ...
Asta and her brother Ash love living in the forest with their mum. She is teaching them how to catch their prey when they are caught instead. Petrified, they are ...
Amy is a positive person, and she will tell you this a lot. But when things got messy at school and totally unfair, and the same thing was happening at ...
Cate loves her dad. She loves her mum too of course, but every second weekend, she stays with her dad at his place. Mum has a new partner (named Sam) but ...
Are you a fan of Five Nights at Freddys? Here are 3 more creepy tales in graphic novel format featuring the freaky animatronic creatures that made Freddy’s so popular. Three ...
So many tricky situations arise in children’s lives and often finding the right words to ease guilt or sadness or confusion is difficult. This is especially so for children themselves ...
It’s hot! Summer is in full force where Jackson lives on a rural aboriginal mission in Australia with his mum and little brother Henry. It’s the school holidays and his ...
A moon-white Risso’s dolphin explores New Zealand’s sheltered coves and inlets, looking for someone to play with. Never would the passengers of metal hulled ships through the Malborough Sounds have ...
Sid loves maps. She’s even drawing her own of her small seaside town of Fathom. She carries it with her everywhere in a special folder around her neck, so that ...
It’s been a year now since Kate was given a magical steam train by her uncle Herbert for her 11th birthday. It isn’t magical in a rainbows and unicorn kind ...