Te Hiakai Tangata: The Taniwha of Tuarā-Rangaia by Hirini Moko Mead
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
This is a story of a taniwha that lives beside a track between villages and menaces travellers and the surrounding iwi. When a chief’s son is taken by the taniwha, Te Hiakai, the people devise many plans to trap and kill the taniwha, but each time Te Hiakai outwits them. In the end, Pōhutukawa, a chief’ ...Show more
Dawn Raid (My New Zealand Story) by Pauline Smith
21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Like many 13-year-old girls, Sofia’s main worries are how to get some groovy go-go boots, and how not to die of embarrassment giving a speech at school! But when her older brother starts talking about protests and overstayers, and how Pacific Islanders are being bullied by the police, a shadow is cast o ...Show more
Once Upon a Wickedness by Fleur Beale
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
An exciting adventure novel for contemporary kids with a fairytale setting, a daring hero and message that you're never too young and powerless to stand up to tyrants! What happens when a group of school children, led by the resourceful ten-year-old Dance Violet, dare to ask those in power some hard qu ...Show more
Toitoi #30 (Summer 2023) by edited by Charlotte Gibbs
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction
Our fantastic summer issue has arrived and we are so excited to share it with you all. Congratulations to Maxwell Zhao, age 7, for his incredible cover illustration, and to all the young writers and artists for submitting their work for publication. We hope you love this journal as much as we do!
Kidnap at Mystery Island by Carol Garden
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Set in a time after the great global Environment Revolution of 2072, readers enter a high-tech world of eco criminals, artificial islands, global warming, rising seas and patrolling coastal rangers. Like other kids of his generation, Dom has a special talent, chosen by his parents at conception. He is ...Show more
Maggie and the Mountain of Light - The Wayfinder Girls by Mark Snoad
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
A respected organization, a hidden purpose, a world-ending threat. 12-year-old Maggie Thatcher longs to be a courageous Wayfinder Girl. But that's not very likely; she is barely coping with life as it is, relying on her asthma inhaler, epi-pen, and the support of her best friend, Anahira Waititi. ...Show more
The Butterflies of Meadow Hill Manor by Stefanie Parks
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Amy has been sent to live with her aunt at Meadow Hill Manor in Belper, Derbyshire, to help her 'recover'. Rumours abound that the house is haunted, but Amy doesn't care. It's just another place to live and Amy is determined not to care about anything. What would be the point? Amy's obsession with shutt ...Show more
All Is Lost (Dragon Defenders #4) by James Russell
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: The Dragon Defenders
The Pitbull is furious. His evil plans to capture the dragons on Flynn and Paddy's paradise island have come to nothing. And now his niece, Briar, has joined forces with the brothers. As he musters his men and machines for a final attempt, a devastating natural disaster strikes which completely changes ...Show more
The Guardian of the Land by Joanna Orwin
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Guardian of the Land was first published in 1985 by Oxford, winning the 1986 Children's Book of the Year and is an exciting time travel adventure which also has valuable historical and ecological lessons. It has been selected as the fourth title in the Collins Modern New Zealand Classic series.Twelve-ye ...Show more
Kaitangata Twitch by Margaret Mahy
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
The brooding island of Kaitangata lies just across the water from Meredith's home. It seems to have a supernatural presence, a will and a voice of its own, although only Meredith can hear it. Can Meredith save the island from an unscrupulous developer? How could the dreamer of the family succeed where ...Show more
Bonjour Lucy Bee (#2 Lucy Bee) by Anne Ingram
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Lucy Bee
Lucy and her mother are in France for the summer to visit family. As they arrive they pass refugees, who are not welcome in this little village. Then valuables are stolen and the young refugees are accused. Lucy sides with the refugees - this could be dangerous.
Grandad's Wheelies by Jack Lasenby
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
When Jack visits his grandparents, they tell him stories - each outdoing the other with a tale taller and wilder than the last. When Jack visits his grandparents, there's no television to entertain him. No internet, no mobile phone, no tablets. In fact, there's no technology or modern distractions at a ...Show more