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Alice is a skilled pre-teen secret agent, but when she joins the forces of Wonderland, she's in over her head. Nothing they do makes sense! Mr White, the new boss, is always running late for something. Maddie makes wacky gadgets and hats but stops for tea every hour. And Alice's new partner Kitty...

Annie and Apple are a pair of chatty, restless hamsters from the animal shelter who are being fostered by eight-year-old Kaita Takano and her family. Kaita can't wait to find forever homes for the inquisitive furballs but first she has to find them! Bright, engaging illustrations and first-person...

Zak Nine has been captured and placed in Planet Alcatraz's 'Monster Zoo'. But this isn't any ordinary zoo. This zoo holds dozens of alien 'monsters' who are forced to fight for the entertainment of the prison planet's owners. Zak's friend, Erro, is determined to break into the zoo to rescue the h...

After only ever playing with friends and schoolmates, Ana Ramirez is excited to attend a basketball summer camp where she'll play on a real team with real teammates. But when the coach says they'll use something called 'zone defence', the shooting guard feels totally lost and starts to doubt her ...

Adelaide loves writing. Bear loves writing. But Theo does NOT love writing. Thankfully, Adelaide and Bear are ready to team up and persuade the entire class, including Mrs Fitz-Pea, that Bears make the best writing buddies. After all, who better to teach you how to fish and forage for new ideas t...

Eight-year-old Kaita Takano and her family are old pros at fostering rescued dogs and cats from the local animal shelter. But they've got their work cut out for them when Betty, a beautiful bearded dragon with plenty of attitude, arrives at their doorstep. Even though Kaita narrates the rollickin...

Zak Nine and his Quom friend, Erro, are desperate to get off Planet Alcatraz. The boys believe they've finally found a way to freedom when they join up with another prisoner. Together with their new partner, the boys board a small spacecraft and fly off the planet, past the metal moon, and head i...

Mr Kazarian has a problem - his evil cousin, Kronkold, is threatening to consume the galaxy with his new device, a black-hole generator. Mr K's four favourite students are in the library researching Albert Einstein when they see Mr K heading out on his mission to stop Kronkold. What better way to...

All of Buttons's playful, super-friendly littermates are being adopted, one after the other. But not Buttons. How do you find the shyest kitten in the world his forever home? That's the big question eight-year-old Kaita Takano and her animal-fostering family need to answer in this illustrated, sw...

You've just been sent many thousands of years back in time. The climate is cold and the landscape is strange. The people you encounter look quite different than modern-day humans. But what worries you most are the fierce sabre-toothed cats and the giant woolly mammoths that roam the land. Do you ...