Cora Seen and Heard by Zanni Louise
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Cora Lane gets tongue-tied, is often ignored and would rather hide in the library than step onto a stage. However, when her parents decide to renovate an old theatre in small-town Tasmania, Cora realises this is the perfect opportunity for her to reinvent her personality. Enter Cora 2.0, stage left. Wh ...Show more
Smile (Clarice Bean) by Lauren Child
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Clarice Bean Ser.
Clarice Bean is back with all her trademark humour in this heartwarming story by former Children's Laureate Lauren Child. At the moment I am daydreaming about inventing something exceptionordinarily good that could change the world for the better, because of all the things, it's the better that's neede ...Show more
The Prisoner of Bhopal by T. I. M. WALKER
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
In Bhopal in 1984, Amil learns that he can predict the movement of the wind. Can this gift free him from working for the hateful Mr Kumar and protect him from an impending poisonous gas leak at the Bhopal Pesticide Plant?Amil has always dreamed of working at the modern, space-age pesticide plant in Bhop ...Show more
The Night War by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
$23.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A castle, a bridge, and dangerous secrets- in this page-turning story, set in Nazi-occupied France, a 12 year-old Jewish girl must learn who to trust and how to find her courage. 'We don't choose how we feel, but we choose how we act. Choose courage.' From the two-time Newbery Honor-winner and a #1 New ...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
Nightshade Revenge (#14 Alex Rider) 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
Children of the Rush (#1) by James Russell
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Children of the Rush
It's 1861, and gold fever is sweeping the world. Otherwise sensible adults have gone mad and will do anything to get their hands on the precious metal. But two children have been caught up in the rush. Michael and Atarangi couldn't be more different, but they share one thing: each has a remarkable and m ...Show more
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, Mai ...Show more
The Letter with the Golden Stamp by Onjali Q. Rauf
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
'I can't remember how old I was when I first started collecting stamps. But I've got a whole shoebox full of them now.Mam used to help me collect them ... Before she got so ill that she lost her job, her friends...everything. Now it's my job to take care of her and protect her - and my little brother an ...Show more
Ferris by Kate DiCamillo
$24.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real love story about a girl, a ghost, a grandmother, and growing up. It's the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer pandemonium: Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to beco ...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