Friends Kai, Harry and Charley are on their way to a martial arts contest at Folksville County Fair. They’ve only just settled into their seats on the train, when a ...
Kea are cheeky birds, but Wānanga is cheekier than most. Only he would be brave enough among his feathered friends to hop up into the caravan of a human friend. ...
Tasting with your feet? We can’t taste with our feet but some animals can! Humans seem the cleverest of the world’s creatures, but we only have 5 senses. Animals have ...
An invitation is given on the very first page… ‘Come! Let’s slip down the end of the garden, we’ll beat a new path, where the path doesn’t go.’ ...
Vega has always seen them. Strange creatures in her home, on the way to school and everywhere she goes. There is a bear in the bath, tiny horses, and creatures ...
Emerson Bell – Dropped out of school and spends all her time holed up in her room, gaming. She no longer gets on with her parents, especially her mum, and ...
Bella doesn’t really think about why she began drinking. Now at 15, it feels like she has known nothing else. Her drink of choice is Sprodka – a mix of ...
Crystal is the quiet one in her friend group. She calls them friends but only Gayle is truly a friend. Trevor is polite to her, Harmony barely speaks to her ...
After enjoying a special camp for children and teens with differences, Melody is enjoying life more than ever. Being able to do things that other children do at summer camps ...
Year 12. Layla’s final year at her Australian high school. It lay ahead of her like a red carpet into her future. Layla’s a hard worker, driven and confident within ...
Clem is loving her 15th birthday party. Among the guests are her best friends Mischa and Danny, her dad who always makes a huge fuss of her birthday since mum ...
It began with a knock on the classroom door. The children looked up to see a small shadow waiting outside. This shadow was a girl with pale skin, shiny hair, ...
Twins Juniper and Rafferty are nervous about the upcoming test all 13 yr olds must do in the land of Whetherwhy. They know that all residents of Whetherwhy have some ...
James Bond has just arrived at his new school. Eton doesn’t seem very friendly and the uniform is far too fancy for his liking. Luckily, one student extends a hand ...
Mabel loves Fridays. This is the day each week she and her mum go for a treat at Miss Plum’s Sugar Plum Cafe. They love Miss Plum’s special cakes and ...
Books know their own stories quite well. But there is one book on the shelf that has the same words as the other books – but doesn’t have any story ...
Zeke is surprised to be made a hall monitor at his school along with his friend Daniel. But Principal Wombat assures them that it’s NOT because he is a monitor ...
Barnaby likes his new home, and he can already see that the tree near his bedroom window has potential for future adventures. All he needs to do is make the ...
There’s a baby on the way! A small child knows that there is a baby in mummy’s tummy, but isn’t quite sure about things. They wonder to themselves what it ...
April is excited to be going on an adventure with her Dad to the Arctic Circle. Well, he’s actually going to work at the weather station on Bear Island. There ...
Joff is relieved school is over and weeks of summer holidays stretch before him. He can stroll around his small town, through fields, along paths and to the well that ...
Jason Mason is on a new top secret mission. This time it’s in the City of Love – Paris, France. Why did I put ‘France’ in there as well? You’ll have to ...
Did you know that New Zealand has it’s own special native bees? Smaller than a bumblebee. Smaller than a honey bee. In fact… “If bumblebees are like big Mack ...
Open this beautifully illustrated book to meet the cast of the story. You will see a plethora of creatures that are only found on Chatham Island New Zealand. One is ...
Leo and Ralph are the very best of mates. They dream-up and play games together, hang out together everyday and Ralph sleeps over every night. Leo’s family are cool with ...
Awa loves spending time on his grandparent’s farm, far from home and close to the sea. He helps bring the milk in, move Suzie the cow onto new grass and ...
Awa is back staying with his grandparents on the East Coast of New Zealand. After spending time with them before, he knows the lay of the land, how to help ...
Back in their own home, brothers Awatea and Tai miss having adventures at Mangokuri with their grandparents, and their parrot friend Carrot. They begin to ‘work’ on their parents to ...
The Witch of Maketu is cranky. She has a pen of lambs outside which she intends to eat. But whether they know that or not, they are very noisy all ...
Audrey is a very busy nine-year-old. Before school she gets up, makes breakfast for herself and her twin siblings, helps get them ready for school, along with herself and checks ...