Odder: The New York Times Bestseller by Katherine Applegate
$16.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A lyrical tale about a remarkable sea otter. Odder is a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself.
The Lorikeet Tree by Paul Jennings
$22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A sister and brother face the hardest year of their lives and discover the healing power of nature in this compelling tale from master storyteller Paul Jennings. Emily loves the bush and the native animals on her family's reforested property, particularly the beautiful rainbow lorikeets that nest in one ...Show more
The Adventure Is Now by Jess Redman
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Sometimes it's hard to be Milton P. Greene. He says all the wrong things. He has a very sensitive stomach. His family life is falling apart, and his friends will barely speak to him after the embarrassing Bird Brain Incident. But when Milton plays his video game Isle of Wild, he becomes Sea Hawk, the br ...Show more
The Fish in the Bathtub by Eoin Colfer
$14.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Eoin Colfer's heartwarming tale of an unlikely friendship and the bond between a girl and her grandfather - now in a standard paperback format for middle-grade readers.
Glowrushes by Roberto Piumini; Leah Janeczko (translator)
$22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A gorgeous modern classic from Italy - a stunning tale of friendship, beauty and mortality. Madurer is the son of a great lord, with untold wealth, but he is also the victim of a mysterious disease that means he cannot be exposed to sunlight or fresh air. He is confined to three windowless rooms inside ...Show more
Dogs of the Deadlands by Anthony McGowan
$20.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Chernobyl, 1986. Without humans, how will dogs survive? As humans fled the nuclear disaster, they were forced to leave their pets behind. Without people, nature began to return to the woods surrounding the power plant – lynx and bear and wolves. But the overgrown forest is no place for dogs. Can Zoya, ...Show more
The Pickpocket and the Gargoyle by Lindsay Eagar
$22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A beautifully crafted epic adventure spiced with magic from the acclaimed author of Hour of the Bees. Fished from the river as an infant and raised by a roving band of street urchins who call themselves the Crowns, eight-year-old Duck keeps her head down and her mouth shut. It’s a rollicking life, alway ...Show more
World Champions! (#4 Max Einstein) by James Patterson
$17.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Max finally meets her hero, Albert Einstein, as she dashes across glaciers, visits the Great Barrier Reef, and flies a solar-powered jet in a race to stop global warming - before it's too late for planet earth.So far, Max and her team of genius friends have solved problems that no one else could, includ ...Show more
My Friend the Octopus by Lindsay Galvin
$20.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
From the bestselling author of Darwin's Dragonscomes a high-stakes aquatic adventure, perfect for fans of The Murderer's Ape! England, 1877, and aquarium fever is at its height. Twelve-year-old Vinnie Fyfe works in the tea-shop at Brighton aquarium, and waits for her milliner mother to return from Par ...Show more
Berani by Michelle Kadarusman
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Malia, Ari and Ginger's three distinct voices are interwoven to tell the story of Ginger Juice, an orangutan kept captive in a cage in this powerful and uplifting novel suitable for readers of The One and Only Ivan. Malia has had a privileged upbringing in Indonesia, but since her Indonesian father die ...Show more
Always, Clementine by Carlie Sorosiak
$16.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A funny, wise and heartwarming story, with a truly one-of-a-kind hero, from the author of the highly-acclaimed I, Cosmo and My Life as a Cat. Clementine is a genius. She can calculate pi to 69,689 places, dreams in Latin, and is a chess prodigy. Clementine is also a mouse. But when she escapes from th ...Show more
You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl From Ukraine by Yeva Skalietska
$22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Everyone knows the word "war". But very few understand what it truly means - when you find you have to face it, you feel totally lost, walled in by fright and despair. All of your plans are suddenly interrupted - Until you've been there, you don't know what war is. This is the gripping, urgent and movi ...Show more