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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.

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.