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The pirate Griselda is mean and nasty.

When Bill wakes up on Monday morning, he finds he is a girl! Forced off to school in a frilly pink dress. He discovers one of the worst days of his life is about to begin.

In a land called the Whykatto, the sun rises angry in the sky, eats the winter grass and flames toward the western horison. As the sky turns fiery, two figures appear, a boy and an old woman.

Toby, Rebecca and Sandra are on holiday north of Auckland when a woman from another time begins to communicate with them through an old photograph.

Here are poems written by Laura between the ages of six and nine, poems about zoos and pets, parents and little brothers.

This story explores the widening gap between rich and poor and two teenagers' battle to bridge it with their friendship.

In 1941 there are rumours that the Japanese may invade New Zealand. George's mother decides to send the family to their bach on the east coast of the Coromandel.

Rob is an experienced tramper. Usually he'd look forward to a week in the bush but three terrible months have left him feeling confused and alone.

Penny's home is a South Island high country farm.

In Belfast Sadie and Kevin fall in love but their relationship is a dangerous one because they are from opposing religious sides in Northern Ireland's troubles.

Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devot

Ish is introduced to Lutha's Headland, a cruel and primitive society driven by fear and superstition. He distrusts Lutha and her beautiful, elegant friend and lieutenant Kalik.

When Lacey's family moves to the countryside she must leave her friends and the conveniences of the city and adjust to country life, living in a ramshackle house, going to a school with only b

Connor's cousin is making big money trapping possums, so Davin and the gang set up a possum-trapping base at Camp Isolation.

Finn's father, Bill, has vanished.