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 ...
Aniyah is a Star Hunter. She knows the other name and that adult Star Hunters prefer the term Astronomer, but she’s going to stick with Star Hunter. Aniyah is 10 ...
Matthew might only be 11 but he’s been a fan of journalism since very young. When the sirens sound in his town called Treachery, early one morning, Matthew is on ...
Murray is a cat. He has a very special owner named Fumblethumb. But although his owner is a real wizard (a rubbish one), this story is about Murray and his ...
Lisa loves Sundays! These are the days of Surf Club and time spent on the waves at the beach on her surf ski. She loves catching waves to ride into ...
Pani and Waima aren’t happy with Dad’s new idea. He has taken an axe to the tree behind their house, wanting to chop it down. “What did that tree ever ...
Addie is sixteen and the pariah of Caseham High. After all, she did get a popular teacher fired after an inappropriate relationship. She says nothing happened, but no one believes ...
Whetū Toa enjoys her work on The Mighty Mikaere’s magical farm, where the animals talk, her mum manages the magician’s business and the Mighty Mikaere practices his new tricks. Things ...
Max isn’t sure what to do when he finds a friend asleep in a toilet cubicle at school. When he learns the reason, he can totally understand it. The new ...
Hester doesn’t much like living with her uncle. But her and her siblings have no choice in the matter after their father is missing at sea, presumed drowned and their ...
Monday isn’t happy. Getting out of bed is even a struggle, but she knows she has a job to do. If only it didn’t come with so many complaints! No ...
If only Amorangi had done his homework. On the way to school he remembers the classroom treat for doing this homework and he doesn’t want to miss out. Surely popping ...
There’s a buzz in the classroom. The chair at the back of the class, empty since a classmate moved away; is now occupied by a new boy. But he doesn’t ...
Zee (Zeba) begins her story at a funeral. With instructions for no tears or black clothing, Zee is doing her best to follow her special friend’s words. Why special? Zee ...
Max and Spike can’t figure it out. They were once pampered pooches – loved by their owners, Sugar and Hey Babe. But a small, strange creature has invaded. It’s noisy, ...
Juniper has survived the tower challenge the vengeful Arcanists threw at her. People of the Dregs are cheering her name, amazed that one of their own has her own magic ...
Two friends are chatting about all the amazing adventures they’d been on. “And how about the time we got lost in The Land of Lost Things?” When one friend can’t ...
Matilda Pages loves living with her grandparents next to their popular bookshop Pages & Co. She also loves curling up in her favourite sofa in the store with a favourite ...
Tilly is getting used to her new life as a book wanderer. Her mum, now home after being missing Tilly’s whole life is also adjusting – quiet and thoughtful much ...
With Decima and her brother Melville Underwood ruling the British Underlibrary, things have gotten even worse. Tilly Pages and her family can’t believe anyone would support the Underwoods and their ...
Hannah blamed the others, but she skipped school assembly too. There was going to be an author visiting, talking about his books. They were supposed to be spooky, but Mabel ...
Getwin is sick of working so much. As her mother’s assistant in their bookbinding business, Getwin is a skilled binder in her own right, stitching pages together into beautiful bound ...
It happened completely out of the blue. No one saw it coming. Least of all, Will himself. He was in the school hallway with his friends minding his own business ...
Duffy is looking forward to rugby practice after school. There’s an important game coming up against the Tūī’s who beat Duffy’s team the year before. Their coach is pushing them ...
It’s Ignacio’s (Iggy) first day of High School and his popular big brother gives him some advice, which boils down to – don’t embarrass him. From the very first day, ...
Aisha and her mother have carried on living after Aisha’s 19 year old sister June, left. It’s been hard for Aisha because she really needed her sister at this time. ...
Juno is angry at her mum. She has gone away and left Juno with her grandfather for the summer. There is nothing exactly wrong with her grandfather. He is kind ...