ZOOM-BAH! Wiley Tyler is waiting for his mum to take him to the skate park when a girl called Spanner offers him a speccy silver skateboard. This incredible gift comes with a catch: to own the board Wiley must commit to becoming Wiley Tyler: Monster Finder

Are you ready for awesomeness? You can write awesome stories. All you need is an idea, some characters, a setting, a plot and- Whoa there This is starting to sound like hard work. And you know what? It is hard work, but it can still be fun. In this book you'll find out lots of ways to make those awesome stories even more awesome. You'll learn about Ideas Tools Beginnings Middles Ends Characters Plots and paces Settings and periods Awesome words Not-so-awesome words Dialogue Editing And lots and lots more."

The people in these twelve stories don't lead what you might call ordinary lives. Ingrid is Elevenish. What does that mean? Levi is not too sure what's going on when he gets the cryptic message that states, Mr Calidinori is an alian monster from Mars. This is so true. Pass it on. How would you feel if you found out, quite by accident, that you weren't exactly human? Jake has a journal and it's just as well. No one else would believe the weird things that happen. Paul and Marla are not too keen when Dad house-swaps them to an ancient inn. Red is on holiday at Seaharbour when she sees the...

I was hanging out with Elizabeth when I saw the boy again. Not just a boy, but that boy, the one you sort-of notice, but only to think, hey, wasn't he here yesterday? He glided by Elizabeth's hedge on his bike once too often, giving that sliding sideways glance he hoped (I expect) looked casual, disinterested and, oh, there's that chick again, hanging out with her big sister...or is it her auntie? Too old to be a friend. Elizabeth is my great-great-great-great-great granny, for your information, Bike Boy, I thought-spoke to him on the fourth bypass of the week. He toed his pedal down and...