Koro's Star by Claire Aramakutu
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Set in the 1960s, Koro’s Star is a heart-warming, exciting, adventure story. It’s the beginning of the summer holidays in 1967 when 10-year-old Atama moves with his family into a new army base. His father, Atama’s hero, departs for Vietnam, asking Atama to look after his mum and his younger sister, Maia ...Show more
Conrad Cooper's Last Stand by Leonie Agnew
$20.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Set in 1978 against the Bastion Point occupation, Conrad Cooper's Last Stand is junior fiction full of humour but with a powerful core. Award-winning author Leonie Agnew has created a surprising, brave and totally engaging novel for young readers. Dear Tane, I've never prayed to a god, so hope this is o ...Show more
Sally Jones and the False Rose (#2 The Legend of Sally Jones) by Jakob Wegelius
$22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Sally Jones returns in the thrilling sequel to The Murderer's Ape! With gorgeously detailed black-and-white illustrations throughout. When Sally Jones and The Chief discover a curious rose-shaped necklace hidden onboard their beloved Hudson Queen, it's the start of another perilous adventure for the se ...Show more
My Nest of Silence by Matt Faulkner (Illustrator)
$20.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Told in a brilliant blend of prose and graphic novel, this "magnificent, essential" (Booklist, starred review) middle grade story about a Japanese American family during World War II is written and illustrated by Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature winner Matt Faulkner. Manzanar is nothing like ...Show more
Silver Linings by Katrina Nannestad
$22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A new heartwarming novel set in 1950s Australia from bestselling author Katrina Nannestad Nettie Sweeney has a dad, three big sisters, a farm full of cows and a cat called Mittens. But it's not enough. She longs for a mother. One with a gentle touch and sparkles in her eyes. Instead, she has Aunty Edit ...Show more
To the Ice by Thomas Tidholm and Anna-Clara Tidholm
$27.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
An epic story set in a polar wilderness that blurs realism and imagination—fully illustrated for newly independent readers.Ida, Max and Jack go to the creek one winter’s day. They play on an ice floe then find themselves floating away—all the way to the polar ice, with just a box, a branch and some sand ...Show more
Nightshade Revenge by Anthony Horowitz
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Alex Rider
The world’s bestselling teenage spy takes on a new and daring mission. This much-awaited new book in the bestselling Alex Rider series continues Alex’s fight against the deadly assassins encountered in the last book, Nightshade. Alex still has unfinished business with this sinister group made up o ...Show more
The Sparrow by Tessa Duder
$22.99 NZD
Category: NZ Teen Fiction
A powerful new historical novel from one of New Zealand's best-loved YA authors. An exciting new novel from the author of Alex. In September 1840, two ships arrive on the shores of the Waitemata Harbour to establish Auckland, the new capital of New Zealand. Among the settlers on board the Platina is yo ...Show more
The Explorer: WINNER OF THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD by Katherine Rundell
$20.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him.As the plane crashes into t ...Show more
All the Way Down by Stewart Foster
$21.00 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A life-affirming story about friendship, adventure and self-belief, from the award-winning author of The Bubble Boy. Perfect for fans of Louis Sachar's Holes and Elle McNicoll's A Kind of Spark.When three eleven-year-old 'problem children' are thrown together at summer camp, they're challenged to build ...Show more
Lopini the Legend by Feana Tu'akoi
$21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
When Lopini is replaced as kapa haka leader at school, he starts to spiral. It doesn’t matter that he thinks it’s a good idea, or that he agreed to the change in the first place. He’s a hard-out perfectionist and this feels like a public failure. Lopini’s best mate, Fi, thinks he’s overreacting. After ...Show more
The Ape Star by Frida Nilsson
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
In this award-winning chapter book about prejudice and justice, an orphan girl is adopted by a gorilla who owns a junkyard. A surprising friendship grows between them. Jonna lives in an orphanage whose manager is strict and obsessed with cleanliness. Like all the other children, Jonna has only one drea ...Show more