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 ...
First we find a Dragon, roaring and flying, swishing her tail and making fire! “Because that’s what Dragons do.” But someone else arrives, stopping the dragon’s fire! “Hey! What did ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sir Ernest Shackleton had made his name as an adventurer and an explorer years before he sought funding for a return to Antarctica. War was approaching, and support for his ...
Witi is a quiet kind of guy, writing songs and playing his music, or out on the waves on his surf board with his best friend Alana. He has never ...
Once Upon a Wardrobe, not very long ago and not very far away, an 8 year old boy named George finished a book. This book was by C S Lewis, ...
Eugene and his brother Miles have settled on the island. His parents are working on making it pest free. Something that Eugene does miss is his dog Jupiter. His grandma ...
Eugene likes school the ‘island’ way. He can swim at their beach instead of a crowded pool, doesn’t have to line up for school assembly, and has a snack whenever ...
Kara the Kākāpō loves gazing up into the sky at all the birds above her. Kara’s fondest dream is to be up there with them. Kara yearns to fly. She ...
Rio feels completely out of place in California. He has been sent to stay with his Grandmother who is nothing like he imagined. She’s tall and thin and seems uncomfortable ...
A young boy loves hanging out with his koro (grandfather). One Pipiri (June) morning, just before sunrise, Koro and his young moko (grandchild or small child) sit high on their ...
There are many books sharing stories of Matariki. This new hardback is comprehensive and clear in not only explaining what Matariki is to Aotearoa New Zealand, but also to what ...
Long ago there were many tribes that shared a track between their homes. Sometimes it followed a river and sometimes it wound through bush. This was a safe way to ...