Volume one contains: Eoin Colfer, 'A Fowl Tale'; Jackie French, 'After the Drought'; Morris Gleitzman, '101 Text Messages You Must Read Before You Die'; Ken Catran, 'Artists Are Crazy'; Paul Jennings, 'Grandad's Gifts'; Fiona Doyle, 'Iyee Cheeig - Looking for Yams'; John Heffernan, 'Peter Goes to Town'; Philip Temple, 'The Legend of the Kea'; Robin Klein, 'A is for Apple'; Ursula Dubosarsky, 'Percival'; Jacqueline Wilson, 'The Daughter'; Anne Fine, 'Poor, Poor Cordelia'; Tamora Pierce, 'Student of Ostriches'; Margaret Wild, 'Bluebeard's Daughter'; Diana Wynne Jones, 'Dragon Reserve, Home Eight'.
Volume two contains: Deborah Ellis, 'Lev'; Brian Caswell, 'The Garden'; Gillian Bouras, 'Letter to My Granddaughter'; Judith Clarke, 'Flying Horses'; Margo Lanagan, 'A Feather in the Breast of God'; Garry Disher, 'The Difference to Me'; Neil Gaiman, 'The Witch's Headstone'; Sally Odgers, 'Emma in Parentheses'; Anna Fienberg, 'Ghost Bird'; Scot Gardner, 'The Lion, the Witch and Possum'; Aidan Chambers, 'Room 18'; Helen Garner, 'The Dark, the Light'.