Oscar knows bullies are easier to hide from if they can’t see you. And being quiet and on your own is the easiest way to disappear. He doesn’t need friends. He just needs to be left alone.

Pirate is a lost baby kookaburra. He befriends a colourful bunch of dogs and a cat. His sense of fun turns their life upside down. But at the same time, the dogs' survival skills and the cat's wisdom take Pirate on a journey that changes his life forever. Pirate grows up.

Children are the future. Coincidentally, so is sustainability. As one boy observes his family wasting energy throughout the day, he has some rather imaginative suggestions on what his mom and dad can do to help save the planet, the air, the trees — and a few empty calories.

Another gem from the Japanese maestro of storytelling Kenji Miyazawa. Gauche plays the cello in the town orchestra, but he needs to do a lot better if he wants to keep his place. He realizes he is going to have to practice every spare moment if he is going to improve in time for the big concert.

Genres for this novelette series: fantasy/young adult/adventure/sci-fi.

See the book trailer below for "The Trapped in the Hollow Earth Novelette Series".

http://youtu.be/viwT0M8Ms_g

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The dream vacation that might just turn deadly...

Seventeen-year-old Casey Smith can't wait to embark on her summer vacation, not least because she's finally shed her tomboy image, and now heartthrob Mike seems interested. What starts out great, with lots of flirting, taking her a step closer to winning her crush's heart, soon turns into her worst nightmare.

Many, many years ago, the Jumbalees were captured from their distant home planet Jumbala by an evil robot race, the Captubots, to be used as servants.

NEBADOR - the incredible journey of five young adults from poverty and oppression to respected citizenship in the wide universe ...

This epic young-adult science fiction adventure begins as a strange young man arrives in a medieval kingdom. Stepping out of a swamp near the capital city, mysterious bracelet on his arm, only an unearthly fearlessness saves him from mutilation or death from a wild stallion. He is soon smiling and gazing over the kingdom from the top of a high hill.

Every prince is taught that he should do what he should do and not what he wants to do because this is his royal duty. But what if the royal duty is to marry a princess he has never met and who is (as the rumor has it) stupid and ugly?

Robots. Where would we be without them? Those tireless engines of activity that power almost everything in our modern world. They so rarely get to relax, put their clunky feet up and give themselves an oil change.

Flash could run fast, but living in a ghetto in Kingston, Jamaica, abandoned by his father, his mother in prison, life was rough. He performed badly at school, was often absent, and ran wild through the city streets.