A teacher stands with her students under a vast skyscape, clouds skudding across it. She urges them to look up .....
After a dinner of cabbage and peas, there is a rumble. There is a roar. But this is something that’s .....
She’s home. Her parents are gone and Brooke has returned to live in her childhood home after 10 years away. .....
Nolan Hawker is used to moving around a lot with his mum being a travelling IT consultant. He’s been in .....
It’s Dad’s birthday – but there is a problem! Nova has been working hard on a portrait picture for her .....
Grimmelings are the beginning of the last gleams of the day. Ella has learnt this from her Scottish grandmother who .....
Misty can’t wait to get back to school after the school holidays. She missed her two best friends, Ruby and .....
It was hard being away from Bear. Living back in the UK with her dad in a house by the .....
New Zealand is famous for our scientists. There was Ernest Rutherford and William Pickering. There was also a stellar woman .....
Rangi enjoys practising haka with the other boys in his class at school. They are preparing for their end of .....
Peter lives with his grandfather now that his mum has gone. Grandfather hovers over Peter, worried for him constantly. He .....
Stanley isn’t looking forward to his first day of school. His plan to act invisible doesn’t go well as his .....
Boo has a vivid imagination, turning everyday things and pastimes into battles with monsters, visiting fairy kingdoms or going on .....
Maggie is NOT happy. Her mum has told nine-year-old Maggie and her five-year-old sister Lily that they are moving from .....
Grace loves doing magic. Ever since her Uncle showed her some magic tricks when she was younger, she’s spent all .....
Shenanigan Swift is part of a very special family. When you are born a Swift, your mother is passed The .....
Now that Eve, Tom and Clovis have had some supernatural experience under their belts, they are introduced to a secret .....
Brock Nick & Kenny live with their dad, and life is rough. With Mum gone and Dad looking as if .....
Siblings William (12), Edmund (11) and Anna (9) have just lost their grandmother. She has been their guardian since their .....
Charlie (Charlotte) won’t speak. After all that has happened, she can’t find the words to tell her doctors or fellow .....
Lily has just finished school and isn’t sure what she wants to do next. Sure, there’s the possibility of Uni .....
Tally is struggling. She often finds navigating friendships at school difficult and home isn’t very smooth at the moment either. .....
Maia’s drama teacher mum wants her to be excited about acting, but after a mortifying episode of stage fright at .....
Sophie has never felt like she fits in. At only 12 she is the youngest in her classes due to .....
Xander loves to draw – super heroes in particular. He’s got two good friends at school, but unfortunately they can’t .....
It was sooo embarrassing. It was supposed to be a fancy dress party, and with Sunita’s idea and Gifty’s creative .....
A dirt floored hut, made of tarps and plastic, is Heera’s home. It is built on another’s land, alongside other .....