The Kid Whose Mum Kept Possums In Her Bra

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Mon is used to being embarrassed by her hippy mother, but when her mum smuggles a baby possum into the class pet show, it's the last straw!

Iron Kid

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When Zac decides to enter the annual Ironkid event at the surf club, everyone is surprised. Including him. Usually he just lazes about in the ocean, but this year Zac feels like having a go...

Photographs In The Mud

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Set on the Kokoda Track in 1942, one battle is seen through the eyes of an Australian soldier, a Japanese soldier and the families that wait for them.

Butterfly Notes

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The school concert is only five days away and Sarah can't control the butterflys that zoom around inside her tummy. Mum says to ignore them, but that doesn't work. Maybe Gran can help...

Horse-Mad

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When Bay wakes up on her eighth birthday she discovers she can no longer neigh, and that when she tosses her mane it's just hair. Bay tries everything to regain her horsiness. She stamps her feet, swishes her tail and feasts on carrots, but nothing works. And if she isn't a horse, how can she be a member of the Pony Club?

Being Billy

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Billy and his brother Andrew always did exciting things together. When they were together, Billy forgot he was different. But when Andrew went away to high school, everything for Billy seemed to change...

Choices

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Elisabeth's hand trembled as she lifted the jar of warm liquid. She wanted to run away and scream that it was all a mistake, but instead, she took a deep breath and poured her urine over the plastic pregnancy tester. A few drops spilt on the bathroom tiles.

Scuba Kid!

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It seemed like I'd waited forever to turn twelve - the age when I could learn to dive. Now I was finally learning the skills. All was going well until I had to take off my mask underwater...

Border Line

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The Nullabour? How could her parents do this to her? When Cassie's dad is retrenched, her whole world is turned upside down. Their move means leaving all she knows behind - her home, her friends, her school.

Jungle Trek

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David doesn't want to go hiking through muddy, mosquito-infested jungle with a bunch of bug fanatics, but his mother thinks it will be a great 'mother-and-son' adventure. The trek isn't as bad as David imagined, until his mother slips, then suddenly every changes.

Dolphin Song

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As she swam through the waves, Melody had a strange feeling that she was being watched. She stopped... and looked about. There was no one on the beach, perhaps she was mistaken... but the feeling persisted. As she bobbed over a wave, Melody glanced out to sea and suddenly froze. Two dorsal fins were circling less than twenty metres away.