National Network for Equitable Library Service

Fifteen-year-old Alex struggles to overcome personal trauma and hardship as she competes with her arch rival for a place in the New Zealand swimming team to go to the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.

Gerald Old Goggle-eyes is the new man in Kitty's mother's life. He is conservative and bossy and to make things worse, Kitty's little sister adores him!

A New Zealand story about the budding relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and a black American soldier during the summer of 1943.

Barney, a very shy and imaginative boy, receives supernatural messages and pictures he is afraid to tell anyone about.

A collection of stories centred on Dalmatian families in New Zealand.

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.