There's a new kid at school and he brags about everything. He even brags about the great birthday party he's organising. But even Nolan can't guess what's going to happen there!
Alice is always last, but when she and her family go whale - watching, Alice might just be first for once.
Life falls apart for Hayley when she doesn't make the swimming squad, and her best friend moves away. But then something very suprising happens.......
David was the best model maker in the world. But one day a strange man sent him a picture of a very strange ball. Could he build that?
Peg Leg Meg and he perky parrot, poll, are in deep trouble. Can they escape the evil pirate, Maude the Marauder - the worst grandmother in the world?
Last year, Tom and Mikaere came last in the annual school trolley race. Not second, or third, or sixth dead last! But this year, they ve got a secret weapon..
The Kiwi Bites series are pitched at young readers (7-12) with the aim of building reading skills and confidence. They have strong plot-based stories, with themes of humour, confidence, sport, adventure, caring, journeys and problem-solving. Arnie is prescribed spectacles to wear for a year or two. However, he thinks only losers wear specs and refuses to wear them. After bumping into lamp-posts…
Charlotte Frisbee is the president of a secret club called PAWS (the Perfectly Amazing Word Society). Along with the other members of PAWS - super-brain Podge, extra-serious Bugsy and freaky-looking Simon - the big excitement of Charlotte's week is getting the club together for word games and general language silliness. That is, until one day when strange things start to happen around the schoo…
Brenda wants to go on an interplanetary cultural exchange, organised by her school. This would mean that while Brenda spent a week on the curious-looking Planet of the Beezee Birds, her family would host a Beezeeian kid! While Brenda investigates the native diet of white jellies and nose biscuits and learns how to play mugboo, the alien Donk discovers chocolate and playing in treehuts!