Five dragons have been raised from eggs, underneath a mountain and away from danger. They have been taught how to fight, their history, and their destiny. They are the five ...


Five dragons have been raised from eggs, underneath a mountain and away from danger. They have been taught how to fight, their history, and their destiny. They are the five ...

Maggie is the middle child in her family of five. She has a little brother called Trig and an elder brother named Jed. Jed is an eldest – the eldest ...

Claudia and Monday are the very best of friends. They even like to think they are twin sisters, they are so close. Claudia is an only child, with loving parents ...

Polly and Buster have been best friends forever. But lately their parents have told them that they are too old to be playing with each other. Monsters don’t play with ...

Fantastic illustrations fill this series, as always with Donovan Bixley’s work. There’s tons of action, likeable characters and the beginnings of other storylines are threaded through these stories about the ...

When a stranger arrives in the Crafty Trout Tavern, looking for Captain Catnip, no-one suspects any trouble. But trouble arrives with a capital T, and Captain Catnip is up to ...

Not many kiwis know about our very own dinosaur hunter, Joan Wiffen. As a wife and mother, and with no formal education, Joan fell in love with the study of ...

Beekle lives in a fantastical land with all the other magical imaginary friends, all waiting for their special someone to need them. Beekle waited and waited, watching other creatures fly ...

Biff is a dog who LOVES Ballet. He sits with his owner (a little girl) to watch ballet on TV, gazes at her little tutu hanging high above him, and ...

Emika Chen has survived the Warcross Games, but is devastated by the truth about Warcross designer and owner Hideo Tanaka. They have become close, but what he’s planned for his ...


Vita and her mum are visiting New York to convince her beloved Grandfather to return to the UK with them. After losing his wife who was his entire world, he ...


Evie is someone special. She not only loves animals, spends all her spare time reading and learning about animals, Evie can talk to animals – with her mind! The only ...

Grandma’s memory isn’t so good anymore and she now lives in a rest home where they can remember things for her. Her grandchildren visit and share their favourite memories of her ...

This little girl has a secret in her pocket – a little friend called Fear. He keeps her safe and she is happy with him – until she moves to ...

Xiomara (See-oh-Mah-ruh) is nearly 16, and sick of guys of all ages whistling and yelling lewd things at her. She wishes they would just stop. Her strict, devout Catholic mother ...

Sometimes you are sad. Michael is very sad after losing his son. He pretends to be happy around other people so they aren’t sad too, but sometimes he just needs ...

Three short stories – two with familiar settings, and a brand new tale A young boy and his sister are sent to Frost Hollow Hall as evacuees in WWII. A ...

Tyler Jones is the top of his 2380 class. He is leadership material with a capital L and he’s looking forward to choosing his squad from the Draft the following ...

…teenage Legion Squad 312 of the Aurora Academy have just escaped a planet called Octavia III. They are still reeling after losing their ace pilot, best friend and girlfriend – ...

Hiding at Polly’s teacher’s house, Polly and Buster are frightened and confused. They have fled from the witches in town who have been led by Mrs Halloway. She is head ...

Maker’s breath! This final book in this Sci Fi series flings the characters far and wide across the galaxy – some even into other time zones. Aurora and Kal and ...

Now at home again, Polly believes everything in her town of Blackmoon Coven has been sorted. But it’s actually even worse. Townspeople are choosing sides, Miss Spinnaker has disappeared from ...


Ben Huntsmore loves his home on Badger’s Hill (his mother’s ancestral family estate in England.) He has many friends, a mutual respect with the farm hands, and life is good. ...

Not only is this picture book fun to read in the style of ‘This is the house that Jack Built’, it works backwards – going through the stages that are ...

When Dwayne’s family move from their family farm to a nice new house, he is not a happy cat. He decides that life is much better at home. ‘He loves ...


Julian loves imagining himself as a mermaid. Swooping gracefully through the water, and swimming with the other mermaids he sees while travelling with his nana on the train. At home ...