Elizabeth Fensham

Eric Bright and his doggy best mate, Ugly, are back, and they're facing their biggest challenge yet—cheering up Eric's mean and miserable big sister, Gretchen. A paw-some tale of friendship, compassion, and finding happiness. Eric Bright and his doggy best mate, Ugly, are back. They're up against their biggest challenge yet—solving the serious problem looming over Eric's mean and miserable...

Mat and Bill are neighbours - and best friends. They've told each other their deepest, darkest secrets and in return provide each other with someone to trust and to turn to when things aren't right at home. For Bill, it's a challenging time of missing his father, consoling his sad mother, and starting a new school. For Matty, it is...

My Dog Doesn't Like Me. It's a fact. When I got back from running away, I explained this to my family. Eric is very disappointed in the dog he got for his eighth birthday. He thought the dog, named Ugly (because he is just that), was going to be his 'best friend'. But Ugly doesn't even consider Eric his first-or...

There's a new boy at Bill and Matty's school - Crispin de Floriette. He's from England and not like anyone else they've met before, with talk of castles and lands far away. Isabelle soon notices Crispin and plots to make him her new friend. But Bill knows first-hand what sort of friend Isabelle can be... However, Crispin is not the...

Philip has spent his whole life at school either being invisible or being called stupid. He's used to being the loner, the odd one out, the boy who lives with his nan. So when Philip's class is given a school assignment to write about heroes and villains, the project causes conflict in the classroom as everyone weighs in on the...