Bat and Kiwi are back in superhero mode in the New Zealand bush. They leap into action when a cry .....
Bug loves her big drafty house in Vermont where the doors creak shut on their own, a window might close .....
Corpse is lonely on her rock that isn’t there. That is, it’s there, until you look away – and then .....
Barnaby Brocket has always been a bit different. From the moment he was born, his mortified parents realised that their .....
Hex (Hector), doesn’t know why he does the stupid things he does. They just happen – without thought or planning. .....
Tennessee USA has been the target of a serial kidnapper since June 1 2001. Boys are taken, but miraculously returned .....
Jack is looking forward to his summer break – weeks of hanging out with his best friend Bunny, playing baseball .....
Phoenix lives with his four siblings, their Gran and long-suffering aunt Josie who isn’t impressed at being lumbered with her .....
Gabby, Priya and Mindy are best friends. Mindy and Piya are a year ahead of Gabby at Primary School, but .....
Mink ignores most childhood rules, one being bedtimes. She’d much rather be playing and having adventures. One night as she .....
Finn is used to being alone. A virus has swept through humanity taking first his father, then his mother leaving .....
Finn, Kas and Willow have hunkered down for the winter in Finn’s home on the coast, hoping the savage storms .....
Kas, Finn & Ray have the best months in years – for Kas, ever. She feels like they are a .....
Goldie can’t wait to see her best friends. She is waiting at Camp Alpine Lake for them to arrive. They .....
The Little Red Hen has found a green seed! She asks her neighbours if they will help her plant the .....
Amanda is excited to see pretty purple envelopes in girl’s hands at school, then devastated not to receive her own. .....
Amanda Commander is the unofficial leader of her backyard club – The Dolphin Squad. Amanda and her best friends Lu .....
Amanda and her friends Mai and Lu are excited about the upcoming Year 3 school disco. Amanda has been shopping .....
Isabella and her little sister Catherine aren’t sure about the move to an old homestead on an orange orchard and .....
Mina is looking forward to not having to share a bedroom with her little brother Georgie. “…he’s a wrecker.” She .....
It’s the end of the day in Pikitea Street. Night has fallen and dinner is done, and now many children .....
Eliza, her husband Ross and teenage children Jesse and Eva are at home in their family bubble. It is the .....
High in an apartment block, there are two apartments side by side. In one is a boy who plays a .....
Luis Gonzales is gay, loud and proud. He is a mover and shaker at his high school and desperately angling .....
Miri feels like her body has been kidnapped over the past two years. At 12 she was thin, flat chested .....






























