Nosy Tabitha Posy

Originally published with title: Tabitha Posey was ever so nosy
Tabitha Posey was ever so nosy

Vain Dorothy-Jane

Summary: Miss Dorothy-Jane was ever so vain. She stared in her mirrors for hours. Was her hair brushed just right? Was her jumper too tight? Would her hat look better with flowers

Cinderella : an interactive fairy tale adventure

On cover: 48 choices, 23 endings
Based loosely on several Cinderella tales from around the world
Summary: In this You choose adventure, Cinderella can be a modern-day girl living in a city, a young man in a medieval fairy tale, or a girl in a futuristic space society - the choice is up to the reader

The discombobulated Life of Summer Rain

New Zealand author
Summary: Making people laugh is what Summer does best. It's how she fits in. And is it any wonder with a family like hers? Top of the list of crazies is Pop, her stingy grandfather, who whips up possum stews and turns chicken scraps into the worst school lunches ever. So why does Juanita suddenly want to be her friend? Juanita's not her type, she has real sandwiches in her lunchbox, and does nice things like saving greyhounds and sticking up for people. And then Pop gets himself a dangerous girlfriend with a mysterious past. Summer has to do something. Apple works in the crystal shop and knows a thing or two about love potions - can she brew an un-love potion? Juanita's keen to help. But what if she discovers all the other embarrassing stuff - what if she finds out - everything

Friends not forever

Summary: It is Ella's big chance for a starring role in this year's school play. But while Peach Parker is busy trying to stop Ella from succeeding, Zoe ends up winning the prize part. Zoe spends all her time rehearsing with the new girl, Amethyst, so Ella tells her to go be her new best friend. Will Ella and Zoe patch up their friendship in time to save the play

On the story sea (Lola's Toybox #2)

When Lola is given an old toy box, she discovers it’s a magical passageway …

Lola and Buddy are aboard Pirate Sal's ship. Can they help the pirates protect the Story Sea?

Pony school showdown

Summary: Ella decides to join Zoe at Pony School for the holidays and when meanie Peach Parker turns up, they fear it will be the worst idea ever! But the tables turn when Peach is knocked off her perch by posh girls Letitia and Lavinia. Will Ella's love of horses be ruined by the new snobs in town? And most confusing of all... is Ella starting to feel sorry for Peach

The patchwork picnic (Lola's Toybox #1)

Summary: When Lola is given an old toy box, she discovers it's a magical passageway. To a world where toys come to life! Do teddy bears really have picnics? Are plastic toys really nastier than soft ones? Follow Lola and her trusty but rather wonky learn-to-dress clown, Buddy, on their adventures in the Kingdom, where toys live when they aren't being played with in the real world

Squishy Taylor and the Mess-Makers

Summary:  An apartment full of questions on a street full of mysteries. What's the best way to sneak onto a film set? Why do grown-ups trust you more when you're carrying a baby? Is a pizza even a pizza without mozzarella? What do you do when everyone hates your hero? (Back cover)

Fancy Nancy : Saturday night sleepover

Summary: Nancy and JoJo are excited about going to a sleepover. It's JoJo's first one ever and she's nervous about sleeping away from home, but that's fine, because big sister extraordinaire Nancy is there to put her mind at ease! Nancy is an expert at sleepovers. Although it turns out it's Nancy who might not be as prepared as she though

Penelope Crumb is mad at the moon

Summary: Penelope Crumb is not having a very good week. First she accidentally comes to school dressed as an elephant. And then in gym class she's forced to dance with a boy who doesn't want to dance with her either! When Grandpa tells Penelope that he sings to the moon when he's having trouble, Penelope grabs onto this plan. But sometimes you need more than the moon to fix things

Penelope Crumb

Summary: Penelope Crumb is no ordinary fourth grader. And when she discovers that she *gasp* has a big nose she's initially devastated. But when her mother lets her know that she has the same nose as her Grandpa, Penelope perks up. And then she perks up even more when she finds out that Grandpa isn't dead like she expected - he's just gone. And she decides that it's her job to find him. (Publisher)

The Island of Lost Horses

New Zealand author
Summary: Two girls divided by time, united by their love for some very special horses - an epic Caribbean adventure! On a remote tropical island, twelve year-old Beatriz is about to embark on an epic journey, through hurricanes and across the high seas and back to the time of Christopher Columbus...When Beatriz stumbles across a wild mare with strange markings in the jungle she can't believe it is real. Yet from that moment on the strongest connection grows between them, and she begins to uncover an incredible history. For centuries ago, Felipa and her horse, Cara Blanca, were running for their lives. As the fates of Beatriz, Felipa and their horses become entwined, Beatriz realises that the future of the world's rarest horses depends on her. Based on the extraordinary true story of the Abaco Barb, a real-life mystery that has remained unsolved for over five hundred years. (Publisher)

False note

Summary: When priceless violins are stolen, SHINE suspects evil agency SHADOW is orchestrating something big. But how did the thief just walk out without anyone stopping her? Special Agent EJ12 and the STAR team must work in concert to find out

Double dare you

Cover title
Summary: Its a new school year, and everything is perfect. Ella has a new uniform, glittery stationery and can't wait to meet her new teacher. Until class starts, that is - and everything goes wrong. (Back cover)

Yellow dress day

Summary: Ava wears a different coloured dress for each type of day - a red dress for hot days, a purple dress for rainy days and a blue dress for cold days. One whistling, whirly, windy morning, Ava and her puppy want to go out and play. But Ava's favourite coloured dress is missing

Friday Barnes, girl detective

 Other Title: Girl detective
Summary: Imagine if Sherlock Holmes was an eleven-year-old girl! When girl detective Friday Barnes solves a bank robbery she uses the reward money to send herself to the most exclusive boarding school in the country, Highcrest Academy. On arrival, Friday is shocked to discover the respectable school is actually a hotbed of crime. She's soon investigating everything from disappearing homework to the Yeti running around the school swamp. That's when she's not dealing with her own problem - Ian Wainscott, the handsomest boy in school, who inexplicably hates Friday and loves nasty pranks. Can Friday solve Highcrest Academy's many strange mysteries, including the biggest mystery of all - what's the point of high school

The lost girl

Summary: The girl had lost her way. She had wandered away from the mothers, the aunties and the grandmothers, from the fathers and the uncles and the grandfathers. Who will show her the way home

Canterbury quake : Christchurch, 2010-11

New Zealand author
Summary: Maddy is a typical 11-year-old girl living in Christchurch - her diary starts in early August with her desperate for a mobile phone, and talking about her best friend Laura, Glee and singing in the school choir, homework, teachers, her siblings ... And then the first earthquake hits on 4 September and her world changes. (Publisher)

Lighthouse Family: Coastal New Zealand 1941-42

New Zealand author
Summary: For Frances and her family, living on a lighthouse, the war is both far away and scarily close. There are rumours of submarines in the Pacific. The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, taken Singapore and bombed Darwin, so what's to stop them invading New Zealand next? But soon Frances, the only girl on the island, will have more to worry about than the threat of a Japanese invasion. (Publisher)