Helen Brain

Someday I’ll see the sky. I’ll climb the thousand steps. The gates will open and my family will be waiting, ready to take me home. Sixteen-year-old Ebba has never experienced life outside the underground bunker deep inside Table Mountain, known as the colony. But in a sudden twist of fate she is Elevated to join the elite living on the surface in a post-apocalyptic world. Was she saved because of the mysterious birthmark on her hand? The High Priest and his handsome son Hal are especially...

Time is running out. A military coup has put General de Groot in control of Table Island City. There are only three months until the winter solstice, and all four amulets are missing. If Ebba does not find them in time a second and final calamity will wipe out Earth completely. But she has other pressing problems. Food is running out in the Colony, and the General is planning a final solution. Can she get the 2000 young adults out of the bunker in time? Can she use her new position as a member...

Ebba is in Celestia, the land of the gods, and the only way to return to earth is to journey across a barren, lifeless landscape until she reaches the Fiery Spiral. But the road is fraught with difficulties and danger. She must learn the meaning of love and courage before she can fulfil her true destiny. It seems that Lucas has to share her journey. But to save everyone she loves, she might have to give up her life . . . and her heart. This is the exciting conclusion to the popular fantasy...

Wat maak ’n meisie wanneer sy die eerste keer in haar lewe verlief is? Op ’n ou met oë so donker soos Bel-giese tjoklits? ’n Ou met ’n tergende lag en seesout op sy lippe? ’n Droomou soos Scott . . . Hoe vang jy hom? Dít is Tamara se probleem. En dit sou geen probleem gewees het as dit nie vir Jasmin was nie. Jasmin met die designer-klere wat altyd haar sin kry. Jasmin wat net een doel voor oë het: Scott. Watter kans het ’n beginner soos Tamara teen ’n ervare flirt? Iets drasties sal moet...

Katrina is moeg vir vervelige mense, moeg vir ’n vervelige lewe, moeg vir haar outydse naam. Sy is Kat . . . en Kat is sexy, suave en gesofistikeerd. Net jammer haar lewe bly so gewoon en saai. Naweke werk sy en Van Aardt op die kunsmark en by die skool het sy te doen met irriterende mense soos Marlé Groenewald, die girl met die supergroot boobs. Tot hý op die toneel verskyn. Hý met die ontwerperstoppels en die romantiese Franse naam. Kat is verlief. So verlief dat sy haar beeld heeltemal...

Princess Talia saves the day when she cleverly, but politely, gets rid of the fierce dragon that has landed on the roof of the palace. But why had the dragon landed there in the first place? And why didn’t he want to budge? Read this playful, humorous story and find out for yourself – and at the same time learn some new interesting words.

Prinses Talia is almal se heldin toe sy op ’n baie ordentlike, maar slim manier van die kwaai draak op die paleis se dak ontslae raak. Maar hoekom het die draak nou juis dáár geland? En waarom het hy geweier om weg te gaan? Lees hierdie oulike, prettige storie en vind self uit – en leer sommer ’n paar interessante nuwe woorde by.

’n Pragtige perd, Oreo, is te koop en Tania het reeds haar hart op hom verloor. Maar die tyd is besig om uit te loop en dit lyk asof die neus-in-die-lug nuwe meisie, Shardonnay, ‘n aanbod op Oreo gaan maak nog voordat Tania genoeg geld kan bymekaarskraap. Haar ma kan haar nie help nie, want die laaste ding wat hulle nou kan bekostig is ’n perd. Intussen verdwyn die professor se onderbroeke nog steeds, Tiek en sy apie is weer met hulle ou streke besig en Tobie is dolverlief en desperaat om...

Tania wil graag haar skoolhoof beïndruk, maar met ’n familie soos hare gaan dit meer as ’n A-gemiddeld vat! Gelukkig is die hondekompetisie om die draai en Tania het haar planne agtermekaar. Vlooie, haar energieke, rowwe, wasgoed-stelende hond sal die Gehoorsaamste Hond in die kompetisie wees. Maar daarvoor moet sy dokter Katzenellenbogen se Towerfluitjie in die hande kry; dis nou as sy vir Bieber, haar broer Tiek se apie, kan uitoorlê. Boonop kom haar irriterende niggie kuier en Tiek het die...

The beautiful Anglo Arab horse, Oreo, is for sale and Jamie has her heart set on him. But her mom has more important things to buy than ponies. Time is running out and it looks like the bratty new girl, Shardonnay, may be putting in an offer before Jamie can scrape together the money. Meanwhile the professor’s underpants are still disappearing, Tick and his pet monkey are up to their usual mischief and Toby is desperately hoping for a date with Shardonnay. Will Jamie ever get to ride Oreo in the...

Jamie wants to impress her headmistress, but with a family like hers it’s going to take more than straight A’s. Luckily the dog show is coming up and Jamie has a plan. Fungi, her bouncy, scruffy, underpants-stealing dog will be the Best Behaved Dog in the competition. That means she needs Doctor Knight’s Magic Whistle, but first she has to get past Bieber, her brother’s monkey. As if this isn’t enough, her irritating, allergy-prone cousin, Fifi, is coming to stay for a whole week and her brother...