The Green Team, sometimes called The Cauliflower Ears, is getting ready to play its last game of rugby of the season. It's the Grand Final of the Junior Home World Cup. And it's Wings' last game with the Greens. But can the Green Team possibly beat i...
When Emily’s aunt and uncle come to stay, following a house fire, they take over Emily’s room, something that Emily is less than pleased about. All that they bring with them is a valuable 'Penny Dreadful' magazine. Emily loves words and writing. ...
Athens has been lumbered with an embarrassing name, a father obsessed with house renovating and a younger brother equally obsessed with emulating his hero, the magician and escapologist Harry Houdini. Add to the mix - a talent quest,a crush Athens ha...
Magic tricks, practical jokes, a ride on a ghost train, the antics of lazy King Lion . . . Here are silly stories, funny stories, stories of the everyday, and stories of far away. Many of these stories were first published in the New Zealand School J...
A bus accident in the mountains . . . Seeing the sights of Paris . . . Busking in the busy mall . . . Getting a tattoo . . . A cold stranger . . . Turning points, of one sort or another. Many of these stories and poems for young adults have been prev...
Emily, the hero of 'Emily's Penny Dreadful', is back. She has an idea for a new 'dreadful' story, this time all about a group of burglars who call themselves the Dead Skin Gang. At the same time, Emily starts her own gang, the Dreadfuls. Her best fri...