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Animals
Margaret Beames - Firefly- Firefly is a wild horse. Can she be tamed, and will she be allowed to stay on the farm?
- Amy Brooke - The Duck Who Went To Heaven
- Story of the Paradise Duck
- Mary Carmine - Sea Voices
- David rescues a penguin off the beach.
- Ruth Dallas - Island of seals
- Garth pesters the seals at the foot of the cliffs, but they have a surprise in store for him.
- Ted Dawe - My dog … your dog
- What kind of dog is yours?
- Beverley Dunlop - Lucky
- Suzie befriends an orphaned kitten
- Maria Gill - It’s Quackers around Here!
- When Papango the black duck's eggs go missing the forest is in chaos.
- Glyn Harper - James the Cat
- James inherits Mrs Murphy's posessions but her nephew has other ideas.
- Glynne MacLean - Easter Island for the Gannets
- The beginnings of a gannet colony
- Dawn McMillan - A Perfect Home
- Will the creatures that live in the old house survive its new owners?
Lorraine Orman - Boss of the Tank- Tiger Barb is the toughest, smartest, best-looking fish in the tank.
- Joanna Orwin - The worst boat-race day ever
- Joe gets in the way of the boat race, and then does something even worse.
- Keith Tonkin - A Weka Story
Families
- Helen Beaglehole - The Day of the Flood
- Toby is staying with his granny when the river floods. It's up to Toby to save them both.
- Fleur Beale - Granny Gibson
- Granny Gibson has one terribly bad habit. She swears a lot.
- Norman Bilbrough - Pink Divan
- Jodie and her family end up staying at Herman's place, the house with the wonderful pink divan.
- G. Brassi - The Tiki~tour
- Max isn't enjoying the boating weekend with his new family.
- Joy Cowley - The McGoodys
- The McGoody's are the worlds most perfect family… or are they?
- Marie Gibson - Sticky Toffee
- Brad's toffee tastes good, even though it causes some sticky problems.
- Patricia Grace - The Trolley
- Mum makes her kids a trolley for Christmas.
- Joan de Hamel - Broken leg
- Greg and Dad's game of 'pretend accident' comes in useful when dad falls off a chair.
- Diana Noonan - Something Special
- 'Nothing special will ever happen round here,' thinks Libby.
Fantasy
- Marlene J. Bennetts - Sycrobyte
- Sycrobyte's microchip Godmother lets him out of Lisa's computer, but he has to be back by midnight.
- Gavin Bishop - Giant Jimmy Jones
- Jimmy Jones is a giant who wants to walk around the world. The trouble is, he doesn't have any shoes.
- Ben Brown - The Flaming Blue Blazes
- Manu loves the wind. The wind will set him free, but will it let him fly?
- Susan Devereux - The Staunch Soldier and The Laughing Princess
- A story of two library books.
- Anthony Holcroft - The King's Lost Thoughts
- The King sets out on a journey to find his lost thoughts.
- Margaret Mahy - The Word-eater (in the Margaret Mahy pages)
- Who is the mysterious painter in the library and what are his wicked plans?
- Janet Pates - Jumping beans
- Everywhere that Henry, Harvey and Horace went, trouble popped up like toast out of a toaster.
- Elizabeth Pulford - The Magic Castle
- When Annie falls under the book's spell, she has to find the key to the castle.
- Janet Slater Bottin - Mr Crankshaft's incredible car
- Mr Crankshaft invents an amazing rubber car. It even floats!
- Trevor Wilson - The Giants' Picnic
- Giant Fairweather goes off for a picnic but he didn't reckon on Giant Blowhard.
Friends and school
- Jane Buxton - Beth Loves Sam
- 'Beth loves Sam' is written on Beth's bag. But who, or what, is Sam?
- Mike Carter - Piripi's Rose
- Frances Cherry - The Vase
- Eleanor finally gets in with the popular girls, but is it worth it?
- Wanda Cowley - Campfire
- Fire breaks out on a school camp.
- Brian Falkner - Ben the Robot
- Ben Holly was thirteen-years-old and he was in my class for French and Physics, and I was sure he was a robot.
- Phyllis Johnston - The sand saucer competition
- The school has a sand saucer competition - can daisies beat roses?
- Don Long - Barry and Jim
- Barry and Jin start at school at the same time.
Jeannie McLean - The Talent Quest- Can Cassie live down her embarassing debut?
- Bill Nagelkerke - The Young Magician's Club
- Sam discovers the unexpected at the meeting of the Young Magician's Club.
- Pat Quinn - Pet Sunday
- Pet Sunday at church brings back memories of the rat that bit Janice.
- Jane Westaway - Angel beads
- Laura admires Jasmine's new beads but, when they accidentally fall off, Laura can't help trying them on herself.
Neighbourhoods
- Graeme Lay - The Legacy
- Stephen gains more than money when he volunteers to work for Sam Rutherford in his bicycle shop.
- Brigid Lowry - Saturday Night
- What are you doing on Saturday Night?
- John Parker - The Rainbow House
- Justice Quidfibble, Councillor Humplebag and Colonel Bigshot want to win the famous Tidiest Street Competition - but Granny Green and her cat Scraddle have other ideas.
- Alison Robertson - Kicking Woes
- When Sam smashes the letterbox he has to go and apologise to Mrs Belcher.
Poems and Plays
- Alan Bagnall - Afternoon lesson
- A poem
- Tanya Batt - The South Pacific Pirate Princess
- Jean Bennett - I'm leaving home
- A poem
- Pauline Cartwright - The cautionary tale of Susan McGoo
- "A troublesome child called Susan McGoo went off, by herself, to visit the zoo."
- Michelanne Forster - Curl up and Dye: a play
- Mr Kobrinski's hairdressers unleash their creativity
- Margaret Mahy - Down the back of the chair (in the Margaret Mahy pages)
- "What will a troubled father win, From down the back of the chair"
- Janet Marshall - The Rescue of Faye
- When Faye the mouse gets carried away her friends go on a mission to save her.
- Yvonne Morrison - The Lawn Moa
- An egg found in the bush grows into a home business.
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