Echo by Arlo Kelly
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Eric loves his quiet life living on a remote beach with its ever-changing weather. However he is visually impaired and gets frustrated by how his parents worry about him and restrict what he does on his own. But one summer Eric has a chance encounter with a minke whale which leads to a special connectio ...Show more
The Great Gallipoli Escape by Jackie French
$22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Renowned for her historical fiction titles, Jackie French now tells the story of the brilliant and famous evacuation of Gallipoli. Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915 they know that that there is mo ...Show more
My Survival: a Girl on Schindler's List by Rena Finder; Joshua M. Greene
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's Listfame. Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family - along with all the other Jewish families - into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave laborer with sca ...Show more
The Lost Whale by Hannah Gold
$20.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
The Lost Whale is the enchanting second novel from the author of The Last Bear: the bestselling debut hardback of 2021 and The Times Children's Book of the Week, winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Award and shortlisted for the British Book Awards and the Indie Book Awards ...Show more
Running Away (Meg and Merlin) by Tanya Landman
$16.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Meg and Merlin
A ride in the countryside spirals out of control for Meg and Merlin in this dramatic new addition to Tanya Landman's lovable horse-riding series.
The Rescue of Ravenwood by Natasha Farrant
$18.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
From 2020 Costa Award Winning author of Voyage of the Sparrowhawk comes an epic adventure with a call to arms: we must fight to save the most treasured things on our planet. On the top of the hill, overlooking the sea, that's where you'll find a magicalplace . . .To Bea, Noa and little Raffy, Ravenwood ...Show more
Penny Draws a Best Friend (Penny Draws #1) by Sara Shepard
$21.00 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Penny Draws
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sara Shepard debuts a fun and quirky middle-grade series perfect for fans of Terri Libenson, Raina Telgemeir and Jacqueline Harvey How come Violet is suddenly not into drawing? Who etched the words 'I Am Bug Man' inside my desk? Why is Mom suddenly acting like she ha ...Show more
The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die by PETER LANTOS
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
The Boy Who Didn’t Want to Die describes an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945. Peter and his parents set out from a small Hungarian town, travelling through Austria and then Germany together. Along the way, unforgettable images of adventure fla ...Show more
Escape From East Berlin by Andy Marino
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
December, 1961 - Marta is a young girl who saw thirty miles of barbed wire appear across her city overnight, separating Berlin into West and East ? with Marta’s home on the Communist Bloc-controlled eastern side. January, 1989 - Now a spray-painted concrete monolith, the Berlin Wall bisects the city. Ku ...Show more
After the Worst Thing Happens by Audrey Vernick
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Left reeling after her thoughtless mistake causes a terrible accident, 12-year-old Army Morand channels her grief to protect someone in need.Army Morand feels like her life has been blown to bits when the worst thing imaginable happens--her beloved dog dies. It was an accident, but it was also Army's fa ...Show more
Pearly and Pig and the Lost City of Mu Savan by Sue Whiting
$17.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Pearly and Pig Ser.
A fast-paced adventure series perfect for readers 8+, from award-winning author Sue Whiting. Pearly Woe is a worrier. But there is no room for worries when you are trying to prove yourself. Yet this is little comfort to Adventurologist-in-training, Pearly Woe, as she motors down the mighty Mekong River ...Show more
Swift and Hawk 2: Undercover by Logan Macx
$21.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Swift and Hawk
The unputdownable second book in the action-packed spy thriller series, where cutting-edge tech meets explosive adventure. An undercover mission. A deadly game of spies. When a secretive robotics company is hacked, teen spies Swift and Hawk discover out-of-control weaponized robots battling to escape in ...Show more