All summer long, the lazy cricket mocks the ant hard at work storing food for the winter, but when winter comes, he wants to be friends.

By Betsy Sewell – 916 words

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A giant Pacific octopus finds itself stuck in the gullet of a blue whale. He muses on the strategies he has to avoid the real enemy, the sperm whale, but none of these help with this predicament. This is a level 4 book. The words octopus and whale are not mentioned, but there are enough clues to figure it out.

By Betsy Sewell – 1816 words

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What sort of creature am I? The clues come, and the child must put the clues together to identify the creature.

By Betsy Sewell – 1265 words.

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Boys build and furnish a hut in the plum tree, only to have it taken over by a possum.

By Betsy Sewell – 804 words.

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A chest is found in the river. The children try many ways to retrieve it, expecting riches and treasure. In the end, they find something unexpected.

By Betsy Sewell – 1005 words.

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The story of the incredible little New Zealand robin.

By Betsy Sewell – 1476 words.

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Sequel to My Days in the Skidder Gang. The logs are stacked on a frozen river, and when the ice melts, the river pigs must ride the logs down the river to prevent tangles and log jams.

By Betsy Sewell – 1645 words.

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Mum loses the jar of jam she has just bought, and it is found by one person in need of sustenance after another, until Mum finds it just where she left it, containing nothing but a fat slug with a single red foot. What does Mum think has happened?

By Betsy Sewell – 1137 words.

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A girl makes friends with a ghost trapped under her bed.

By Betsy Sewell – 1006 words.

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The incredibly complex social and farming systems of these ants.

By Betsy Sewell – 759 words.

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The Aswan Dam has changed Egypt, but there have been some downsides. The story of the changes the dam has brought to Egypt, told from the point of view of those who live along the riverbanks.

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By Betsy Sewell – 1868 words .

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From the gold fields of Central Otago. Finding gold is not quite as easy as the rumours suggest, and then when you do, that is when your problems really begin.

By Betsy Sewell – 1404 words.

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The farmers of Kenya had a problem with elephants raiding their gardens. They tried everything from electric fences to massive walls, but in the end it was a simple bee fence that kept the elephants well away.

By Betsy Sewell – 943 words.

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In the days before text messaging, television or even radio, it was the children of New Zealand who spread the news that World War 1 was over.

By Betsy Sewell – 1056 words.

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The true story of Shackleton’s ill-fated voyage to Antarctica, and how the crew survived the loss of their ship.

By Betsy Sewell – 3545 words.

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