Ben Harrison loves scuba diving. He is with a group of students on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. They are learning how to dive and how to stay safe under water. But Karl, one of the other students, wants to do things his own way. Ten metres down, Karl gets into trouble. Ben has to stay calm and think fast to get the two of them out of danger.

There are grizzly bears in Yoho National Park in the Rocky Mountains of Canada. Before Joe and Randall go walking in the park, Joe's mother tells them to be careful. They should stay on the trail, stay together and never stand between a mother bear and her cub. Randall is scared. Joe thinks that's silly. But will Joe remember his mother's warning when he needs it most?

Every night, Dylan plays a computer game called Orloff's Castle. In the game he has to try and free Princess Zia, a prisoner of the evil Count Orloff. But one night something very strange happens to Dylan — by magic, he is pulled into the computer. He's not just playing the game any more — he is in the game! His only way back to the real world is to go into the castle himself and find the princess. Can Dylan defeat Count Orloff and free the princess? And will he get back home?

Mitch has a new camera. He wants to win the prize for the best photograph at the Vancouver Giants' ice hockey game. He takes pictures of the players on the ice and the people in the crowd. But some people aren't happy to have their picture taken, and one of Mitch's pictures gets him and his brother Ben into big trouble.

Sam Martin loves watching the beautiful sea eagles flying over Blue Moon Beach. But when two suspicious-looking men arrive, Sam begins to get worried. What do these men want? Soon Sam and his new friend Tim realise that the sea eagles are in danger, and they decide that they have to stop the men and save the birds.

Jeremy and his mother are on holiday in San Francisco. They buy a toy monkey. It's a gift for Jeremy's baby sister. But they are not the only ones who want that monkey — there are other people who want it very badly. After someone steals it from him, Jeremy can't understand why. What's so special about this toy monkey? Jeremy gets a big surprise when he finds out.

Tom and Fraser are excited when TV star Heath Mason visits their school and announces a play competition. The best actor in the competition will go on TV! The boys decide to put on a play together. But that's the easy part. As the night of the competition gets closer and closer, they face more and more problems — with the actors, with the script, with the costumes... The show must go on — but will it?

CHOIR is the Central Headquarters of the Organisation for Invention and Research. It's top-secret! At CHOIR, highly intelligent young people make new inventions that will help the world. Harley Baxter has invented a robot. It's so life-like that he is sure nobody will ever know it's a robot. But when Harley takes his robot home and to school, things don't go quite the way he planned! CHOIR Boy is a play. You can read it like any story, or you can act it out with a group — like real actors!

'Going to Samoa changed my life', says Corey Cassidy. He and his friend Grant are driving around the beautiful Pacific island, looking for good places to surf, when the weather changes. The sea gets rougher and the wind gets stronger and stronger. A tropical cyclone is coming. Corey tells the story of the terrible storm, and the people who help him get through it.

Mia Alati gets a shock when thieves arrive at her family's villa in the Italian countryside. They have come to steal her father's fabulous art collection. The thieves have guns, but Mia and her grandmother are smart. When they are taken prisoner, the two of them use some quick and clever thinking to get out of a dangerous situation.

'Find the stones... You will find the way to help all of Avondel'. Finn doesn't understand the note that his great aunt gave him, but he doesn't have time to think about it. When soldiers come to his village looking for him, Finn has to escape and go on a dangerous journey. He soon learns that only he can defeat the evil warlord Gondar and bring happiness back to the land. But he'll need the help of the singing stones, and of the strange, wonderful friends he meets along the way.

Lewin's quiet life changes on the day he turns sixteen and finds out that he is a sky reader — he has the power to read the past, the present and the future. Lewin leaves home to learn the ways of old magic from his grandfather Laylan. When they start to see dark, troubling visions, the two sky readers realise they must make a journey to the city of Liana to help save their land from evil. The Sky Readers, like The Singing Stones, is a story from the Avondel Chronicles.

'Don't let this place change you', says an old man when Sorrow arrives in the township of Chimuka. But Sorrow wants to change. He's come from a small village, he's going to stay with his uncle and he's starting at a new school — it's the start of a new life. But the people Sorrow meets and the things that happen to him in Chimuka change him in ways that he never imagined. He soon has to learn for himself what is right and what is wrong.

'Do you want an exciting adventure? Then come on the Black Bear whitewater rafting trip'! Four friends — Mouse, Scott, Dario and Ryan — decide to go on the trip down Black Bear River. At first it's a lot of fun. But when things start to go wrong, they find that whitewater rafting can also be deadly.