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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.

Flea, Pete and Libby think they're the luckiest kids on earth when the family goes sailing around the Marlborough Sounds for a year.

Aunt Effie has six gigantic pig dogs, twenty six nieces and nephews and a never-ending supply of stories.

Brett is off to school camp at last. When he hears how Pirate's Cove Camp got its name, he can't help wondering if any of the rumours are true.

A drought threatens to force Jeremy's family off their farm and everything he does seems to make matters worse.

Written in the form of letters, this novel traces the friendship of two penpals, teenage girls, one of whom is serving time inside.

Reuben thinks that his little brother Matt ruins everything, at home, at the mall, at the magic show.

Stuart and his twin sister Sandra are coming home to Wellington on the ferry. It's April 1968 and the ship is the Wahine.

When the new owners of Boot Creek's French fries factory want to close it down, it is a disaster for the town.

For seventeen-year-old Harry and his girlfriend Jessica, World War One is a crusade against the Hun. Harry enlists and is sent to Gallipoli, and Jessica leaves school and trains as a nurse.

A tale about a young Chinese girl and an Irish lad who are drawn to the Otago goldfields in the 1860s in the hope of striking it rich.