Liesl Wolf never imagined she would ever be left alone with her little brother Otto and toddler sister Mia, with .....
When Mary’s mum died in their elegant home in India, Mary was quickly back to England. Now she was to .....
India Opal is ten years old. She misses her mother even though she can’t remember her leaving, as she was .....
Charlie knows the forest behind his house as well as his own reflection. He and his friends, Beaky and Lamont, .....
It’s 1938. Joseph St George is half kiwi, half English and living in Germany. Life has been good with his .....
A collie dog named Friday creeps through the night with her master. They have 1000 sheep in their sights, and .....
Elsie loves to sit and fish off the Lyttleton jetty, her feet dangling high above the tide. Mr James is .....
It’s a cold, frosty night when five children aged twelvish, flee an orphanage – the only home they’ve ever known. .....
Winifred (or Fred or Freddo or Winnie) enjoys school, especially her teacher Mr Khouri and the way he explains things .....
A chance of a lifetime has just appeared for 13 yr old orphan Almanac. He has received an invitation from .....
Hal (Harrison) isn’t happy at being sent off to spend time with his uncle when his baby sister is due. .....
Frankie Fish and his prank pulling best mate Drew Bird aren’t happy being part of the compulsory class choir. Singing .....
Ivy loved her twin sister Scarlet dearly. She was Ivy’s opposite. Where Scarlet was brave and confident and mischevious, Ivy .....
At first Ivy is incredibly relieved and happy to find her twin Scarlett alive, especially when despite their pleas of .....
Guinevere is on the way to her wedding. She’s never met her groom to be, but knows he is 18 .....
Scarlet and Ivy are resigned to staying at Rookwood School for Girls, all the better for getting rid of the .....
Joe is heading to a new mission – one only he can perform. Hitler and his inner circle have cherry .....
Joe is relieved his mother is safe after her heart pumping rescue through a storm, but now he is under .....
Alice Ross-King went to war in 1914. They needed nurses and nursing was all she’d ever wanted to do. The .....
Jane Eyre lives a terrible life with her spiteful aunt and bullying cousins. When she is sent away to a .....
Jo lives in a little town in France, with his mother, grandfather and little sister. France is in the grip .....
Jacinda Ardern has always been busy, and ever since she saw classmates at her Murupara school with no shoes or .....
Step back in time to when … “New Zealand was a land of lush forest, with only the mountain tops .....
Fly is under the control of Black Bill who runs a group of street urchins. Being small, Fly is the .....
On the day WWI broke out, New Zealander Captain Frank Worsley set off on an adventure of a lifetime. He .....
Julian is older now and attends a new school. He has a project for his Humanities class that requires him .....
They’re back in a brand new episode – No. 38! After 60 years, we meet the series’ first female heroine, .....
Before the settlers, before Captain Cook, Abel Tasman, or any Pacific explorers reached NZ shores – Aotearoa was covered in .....
Did you know you have something in common with Southern Right Whales? They have two plates of bristles that hang .....