A fifteen-year-old boy acknowledges his attraction to an older rugby teammate as he also begins to break out of preconceived notions about him held by his family and others.
Eighteen-year-old New Zealand boarding school student Ellie Spencer must use her rusty tae kwon do skills and new-found magic to try to stop a fairy-like race of creatures from Maori myth and legend that is plotting to kill millions of humans in order to regain their lost immortality.
Tessa Fortune and her cousins want to raise one hundred dollars for the New Zealand National Telethon, but when their plans begin to go awry, Tessa learns some valuable lessons about her goal of becoming a rich executive.
Text, photographs, and maps introduce information about the climate, land use, resources, plants and animals, population, politics, and religions of Australia, New Zealand, and the islands of the South Pacific.