This is a Neighbours story. It introduces the setting for events that take place in the neighbourhood. It also introduces the learners to the names of familiar places.

The neighbourhood children have to cross a very busy road to get to school. Mrs Patel thinks it is dangerous, so she calls the traffic police. But the drivers slow down when they see the policeman, so he won't help. She complains to Aja, who tells her not to worry. He borrows some equipment and sets up his own pretend speed trap. His plan works and the cars all slow down.

This is a Neighbours story. The readers are introduced to the games that the children who live in First Avenue play or don't play.

Anjali's mother is a doctor who works at a children's hospital. Anjali spends a busy day with her mother at the hospital. She finds out about all the different things that happen at a hospital.

This is a Neighbours story. The readers are introduced to the games that the children who live in First Avenue play or don't play.

This book describes how different tools and equipment are used to combine round shapes in jewellery making. The reader is shown simple step-by-step procedures a jeweller follows to make bracelets and rings.

This is a Neighbours story. Layla and Neesha share a room, but Neesha is very untidy and she leaves her things all over the place. So Layla decides to draw a line down the middle of the room. She makes Neesha take all her things to her own side of the room.

A young boy is in a bad mood and he wants everyone to leave him alone. Everyone leaves him alone but then he starts to feel that it is not much fun to be alone. So he goes back to his friends, family and dogs.

This is a Neighbours story. There is going to be a street party on First Avenue. Tiny is very keen to dance with Dudu, but she is not interested. So Tiny enlists the help of others in First Avenue. They help him dress and they organise music that will make Dudu want to dance. Everyone joins in and Tiny gets his wish!

This story is about how things change with time. It tells how people long ago used to do things, how people do things today and how people may do things in the future. Two examples are given: baking a cake and travelling from a farm to town.

This is a Neighbours story. Mrs Allie, Gogo Vilakazi and Susan Smit are looking for Sam, the twins and Nuha. Layla, Lindi and Neesha offer to help find the other children. They realise that Raj knows where they are, but that he has promised to keep it a secret and not tell anyone else. He does point the girls in the correct direction though and they find the children in an abandoned car on the empty plot. Nuha is reading them stories!

This is a Neighbours story. The children in the neighbourhood are very hot. They decide to go down to the river at the end of their road to have a swim. When they get there, the water is very dirty, so they decide to clean it. As they clean, they get hot and dirty, but they still cannot swim because the water is still too dirty. Then they hear some splashing from Lindi's house. The dirty children look over the wall and ask if they can join her.

This is a Neighbours story. The Vilakazi family has chickens in their yard. One chicken escapes through a hole in the fence and runs around the neighbourhood. The number of items increases as the story progresses, so you have one chicken, two children, three dogs and so on.

This is a Neighbours story. The book introduces one of the main characters in this series as well as her family and her home.

This is a Neighbours story. The story takes us to the houses of most of the neighbours who live in First Avenue. The learners have to say who lives in each house. Each house is different, with the concept of opposites introduced through the adjectives used to describe each house.

This is a Neighbours story, which introduces characters who live in the street and who all look very different.

This is a Neighbours story. Lindi and her family are getting a new swimming pool. The pool is delivered on a truck. All the neighbourhood children are excited about the pool, so they come to see it. But, the pool is too big to fit through the gates. Lindi's dad makes the pool company use a crane to lift it over the wall. Once in the yard, the pool is too big for the hole. Lindi's mom tells the workers to dig some more. Everyone helps to dig the hole. In the end, the pool does fit into the hole and all the people from the neighbourhood squash into the pool.

An element of magic is based on historical events that led to the discovery of phosphorus. The story begins with an accidental discovery Hennig Brandt made about 350 years ago, while he was experimenting to find a way to make a stone that could turn metals into gold. The reader will find out about the first experiments, when urine was boiled, and later experiments with animal bones and making modern day safety matches.

This is a Neighbours story. The children who live in the street decide to make a swing. They ask some of the adults to help them. Kevin supplies a tyre, Mr Patel provides rope and Joe Mokwena helps them hang the swing from a branch on the tree in the open plot where they usually play.