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The marae needed a house, so the oldest tohunga went out to the forest and the shore to find inspiration for the carvings. A description of Maori carvings for younger children.

Eleven-year-old Harriet, who is a spy, plans to be a writer and keeps a secret notebook filled with thoughts and observations on her schoolmates and other people.

For Susan and Nick the adventure at last seems at an end. They are leaving the magical land of O. But even as they prepare to step back to Earth strange evil forces reach out to ensnare them.

Ruby loves her half-sister, Hine, and treasures all the fun times they share together.

Annie lives in a small New Zealand town.

The Seddon Street gang are back. School is closed and Denny, Polly, Bob, Pete and Joe have been packed off to Uncle Ted's farm. There's plenty to do riding, spying and exploring.

One by one, people are dying as they play with virtual reality.

A true story of the friendship that developed between a bird and the man that saved it from destruction as a egg. Ruby grew up a part of Joe Erridge's family in Christchurch.

Tricked by his horrid neighbour Alice, Charlie must submit to her experimental learning machine, which proves so successful that it almost backfires on Alice. Sequel to: Knitwits.

Steve wants to run the Coast-to-Coast race at all costs, to push himself to the limit and beat the clock. Kel also wants to enter but is battling a life-threatening disease.

When the gang discover that a flood has turned the creek into a lake with an island, they set about building canoes and a fort; but unknown to them, they are being watched.

The witch in this story is not wicked but she is a bit naughty and quite definitely unusual, causing Simon a number of difficult moments.

Craig likes a good challenge but gets rather more than he bargained for when Fitz, the arrogant and gung ho chopper pilot paid to fly Craig and Lisabeth up into the mountains, lands them all in a s

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!