new zealand

Fourteen-year-old Michelle and her younger brothers, separated from their aunt and uncle during a scrub fire on a camping trip in New Zealand, must use all their resources to find their way back to civilization.

A brief introduction to Maori culture, indigenous plants and animals, and natural sites of New Zealand.

While gathered together for the Christmas holiday, a large New Zealand family and their various guests and hangers-on find their lives suddenly invaded by three fascinating but rather sinister brothers.

Determined to satisfy her curiosity about her unknown father, Angela confides in and seeks help from her brilliant friend Tycho.

Twelve-year-old Frankie Parsons has a quirky family, a wonderful best friend, and a head full of worrying questions that he shares with his mother each night, but when free-spirited Sydney arrives at school with questions of her own, Frankie is forced to face the ultimate ten p.m. question.

When her little brother seems to become possessed by an evil spirit, fourteen-year-old Laura seeks the help of the strangely compelling older boy at school who she is convinced has supernatural powers.

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.

On the fifth anniversary of his older sister's death, nineteen-year-old Jonny Dart, troubled by feelings of guilt and an imperfect memory of the event, goes in search of the only other witness to the fatal accident and, through a chance meeting with a senile old woman, finds a way to free himself of the past.

Left to drown in the sea, a Maori boy is saved by a whale who returns him to shore.

Text and illustrations take readers on a tour through six notable areas of New Zealand.