Ellie can’t believe they are going back. After 5 months recovering from both physical and mental wounds, they are going back to Wirrawee Australia and lost sleep, food rations, and ...
Feeling abandoned by the NZ Military and hunkered down in Hell, tensions are simmering within the group. Unlike before the war, “Imagination and memory” had become Ellie’s enemy. Not knowing ...
After nearly a year looking after themselves, Ellie and her friends are expert night creepers. One night when scoping out the ferals (a group of street Stratton children who mugged ...
When they finally see a NZ soldier again, it isn’t anyone from the missing military unit. Captain Ryan arrives in a helicopter with plenty of supplies. After coming across an enemy ...
Nora hasn’t always been Nora. She’s been Rebecca and Samantha, Hayley, Katie and Ashley. But that all stopped when she escaped. Now 17, only her best friend Wes, and big ...
Nora, her best friend Wes, and her girlfriend Iris are putting their final plans in place for a forest hike. Iris is about to begin an internship in a Fire ...
Twins are special and identical twins even more so. Little do identical twins Arlo and Stefan know they contain powerful magic. When they discover a girl (Alice) hiding out in ...
A young boy wakes with sounds and sights around him. He knows the words for them but his mouth and tongue won’t cooperate in sounding them. It’s easier to stay ...
Niko is having a hard time. His older cousin Tu and his mates bully Niko mercilessly. Everyone calls Niko Porangi (crazy) boy, just as they call his Koro (grandfather), porangi. ...
We’re going A-Hunting! This collection of stories by budding young, keen hunters aren’t just hunting yarns. There are fishing stories, a shooting (with a camera) story. There’s funny stories where ...
A private Thai island. Six teenagers who’ve known each other their whole lives. Seven days together with their own wilderness guide. Sun, surf, sunsets and golden beaches. Paradise. Now all ...
Cripesauce, Crudberries & Fudgesicles! Something strange is STILL happening in the small town of Sticky Pines. Budding cryptozoologist Lucy has uncovered the shocking truth of the Bigfoot like creatures and ...
Max and Hugo’s teacher doesn’t like them very much – but Mr Armstrong doesn’t really like any of his students. When he and Max have an argument about a poo ...
Max is a HUGE fan of the comic superhero Captain Kickbutt. Everyone is super excited about a Captain Kickbutt movie being filmed, right in their small town – but no-one ...
Vicki and her horse loving family are staying with their good friends when they first hear of the possibility of roaming horses being in danger from the local council. At ...
Max definitely does not want to dive into the pool in front of his swimming coach, teacher and rest of his class. He does not see the point in swimming ...
Eleven year old Max is well known for being a Funny Kid. But now he has a different persona in mind. First Kid. Like the First Lady in America, Max ...
Todd Hewitt is counting down. In days he will turn 13, and in Prentisstown where he lives, 13 is the crossover from a boy to a man. He’s the youngest ...
Fleeing from Mayor Prentiss and his army has been a long and dangerous journey for Todd and Vila, resulting in Vila on the edge of death as they arrive in ...
The Spackle are coming. The Answer have been labelled terrorists for attacking Prentisstown, and President Prentiss is determined to bring them down, but now they have another foe. One Spackle escaped ...
Wen Zhou and her best friend Henry have a goal in sight. They want to sit an entrance exam to “…an amazing, government-funded selective school,” hoping their lives will change ...
The Wilson family is on the hunt for new ponies again. Vicki (the eldest), is also on the lookout for a Grand Prix pony to be bought by her sponsor ...
Straight into the action, young Baarnubus (who prefers Barny, thank you) is bailed up against the barn wall by Ringo, the farm dog. Barny knows Ringo is a bully, and ...
Princess Elizabeth is very much in love with her Prince – Ronald. They were destined to be married, until… A dragon swoops in from nowhere, burns down her castle and ...
Bonnie Willoughby is excited and dismayed in equal measure. She is excited because her cousin Sylvia is leaving London to come and stay with her in Willoughby Chase – her ...
Milly, Aubrey & Jonah are cousins who have never met. When they receive an invitation to an island resort belonging to their wealthy grandmother, they are more than surprised. This ...
Trees are universal – growing everywhere in the world. Some we enjoy as shade, some to hold our tree hut to play in. Many provide fruit or hold our summer ...
Many years ago, before any pakeha had stepped onto Aotearoa shores, there lived a woman called Kahurangi. She was a leader of her people. Kahurangi had a spirit bird called ...
Archie lies in bed, thinking about going to a brand new school the following day. Worry Monster has been lying in wait for this very opportunity. He springs into action, ...