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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!

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.