Adeline and Grumpy Grandma

Swish! Adeline and her best friend, Miranda, twirled through various outfits and styles. Miniskirt? Tick! Cool-looking tie-dye T-shirt? Tick! Platform shoes? Tick! It was after school, and Adeline and Miranda were designing, making, and putting together outfits for both of them to wear in their school’s Fashion Design Fiesta, which was two weeks away! It […]

Girl Pilot

(based on “A Wish for Wings” by Robert Swindells) “Hi Mam, hi Dad.” Jenna marched through the door, took off her boots, and stomped into the living room of her house. She glanced around. “Where’s Ned?” she asked, before she realised that it was a Wednesday afternoon and Ned was at cricket. “Cricket, Jen. He’s […]

Colliding Worlds

Thirteen-year-old Aurora shivered as she sat down on the deck of her mum’s house, watching the Southern Lights and her foggy breath as she breathed out. She watched as green, red, violet and misty blue danced across the the night sky dotted with stars. If only her family was as peaceful as the aurora hanging […]

The Tooth Witch

The sun sank below the horizon as streaks of rose pink and plum and crimson faded into a dark indigo. Even in Towerston City, where skyscrapers blocked out the view of the sky, you could still see a sliver of the majestic sunset. It was simply too amazing to be missed. The city birds slept […]

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The Strange Text Message

It was a regular Friday at school. At least, it was until I, Shinta Byrnes, got the strange text message. I had been tidying up – it was the end of the day – when Yusuf’s message arrived. Ding! I reached into my phone and looked at the message. It read: Come quick! I’m in […]

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The Adventures of Arthur and Matt

Glorious dark purple and magenta and reddish streaks faded across the darkening sky as birdsong started to stop slowly. An owl hooted loudly while the small, cozy town of Lily-Paddle drifted off to sleep. Gradually, all of the warm white lights were switched off one by one, until only teeny-tiny tights remained. In one certain […]

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Jesse Arthars: Alice’s Idol

Alice was a bright, linguistic girl of about eleven and had light brown hair. She loved writing and would print out all her own stories and keep them on her walls. She liked reading too and would pin up newspaper clippings. But most of all, she adored Jesse Arthars and was a fan of the […]

3 Little Pigs

In a galaxy far far away, there lived three little pig-robots with their mother on Earth 2 in an artificial forest. They lived in a colourful cottage – factory with robot arms holding pans and machines that automatically made a nice cup of coffee. Every day they would spend their time making inventions, experimenting with […]

The Pool Shapeshifter

I was Year One in 2017, February. I had a first nice month of Term One with no swimming. I hated swimming! Then March came. “From tomorrow on, we will go swimming in the school pool,” announced my teacher. But I hadn’t had any swimming lessons. I could barely blow bubbles and […]

Onepoto Domain

Billy entered Onepoto Domain , stepping onto the concrete pathways, kicking a rock and jumping into the soft grass. The yellow & gray public toilets and the busy car park were far away from Billy, but he could try walking near the lake. As he came near the shallow end, he noticed the gloopy mud […]