Fifteen-year-old Alex struggles to overcome personal trauma and hardship as she competes with her arch rival for a place on the New Zealand swimming team participating in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.
Paul, Simon, and Fiona, three teenagers living in New Zealand, become involved in a complicated friendship as they search for the truth of their interlocking pasts.
While vacationing with relatives in Auckland, twins Theo and Rachel discover that they are endowed with special powers to oppose mysterious giant creatures that are determined to destroy the world.
Saved from being sacrificed alive to the angry volcano, eight-year-old Rana transcends the evil schemes of the tribesman who "saves" her and leads her people to a new life in the distant Land of the Long White Cloud.
Because of their bravery and understanding of Maori traditions when they outwit Punga, the goddess of ugly, a pair of twin sisters earn the highly revered chin tattoo called a moko.
Determined to satisfy her curiosity about her unknown father, eighteen-year-old Angela May embarks on an emotional journey that shapes and forever alters the way she looks at herself, her unconventional mother, and her devoted friend Tycho.
