Lizard's Tale by Weng Wai Chan
21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
It's Singapore in 1940, war is just around the corner-but twelve-year-old Lizard doesn't know that. He lives in Chinatown above a tailor's shop, surviving on his wits and hustling for odd jobs. When he steals a small teak box containing a Japanese code book from a Raffles Hotel suite, he finds himself i ...Show more
Lighthouse Family: Coastal NZ, 1941-42 (My New Zealand Story) by Philippa Werry
19.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
For Frances and her family, living on a lighthouse, the war is both far away and scarily close. There are rumours of submarines in the Pacific. The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, taken Singapore and bombed Darwin, so what’s to stop them invading New Zealand next? But soon Frances, the only girl on ...Show more
Toitoi #10 (Summer 2018) by edited by Charlotte Gibbs
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction | Series: Toitoi: A Journal for Young Writers and Artists
Toitoi is a quarterly journal of writing and art by New Zealand children, ages 5-13. With 100 pages of original stories, poetry and artwork, Toitoi gives our young writers and artists a real purpose and a wide audience. Toitoi can be read at home or at school and is a valuable classroom resource.
Here Come the Marines: Warkworth, 1943 (My New Zealand Story) by Lorraine Orman
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
In late 1942 Margaret Glenmore realises that daughter Joyce, who is doing a secretarial course, will probably be manpowered into a war job soon, when the age limit is dropped to 18. Her other daughter, Lillian, is coughing a lot and an x-ray has shown a spot on her lung. Lillian needs to live in a healt ...Show more
The Ghost House by Bill Nagelkerke
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
David's family moves to a house on the edge of the Red Zone - a strange wilderness that's returning to nature after earthquakes destroyed the homes there a decade before. But David doesn't venture into the area. He's not well - he can't play cricket or go to school - and his parents have declared the Re ...Show more
Liberty and the Dream Ride (#11 Pony Club Secrets) by Stacy Gregg
17.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Pony Club Secrets
Saddle up for the eleventh Pony Club Secrets adventure! Issie leaps to new heights with showjumper Comet, but will she ride to victory on Liberty? The penultimate book in the Uk's bestselling pony adventure series. Issie and Comet have travelled to Lexington, USA to take on the best riders in the world ...Show more
The Champion by Maurice Gee
19.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
What do you answer when people say, 'Who was the most important person you've ever known?'...It was Jackson Coop. He changed my life - Jackson and the things that happened in those two weeks. It is summer 1943 in a small New Zealand town, and a wounded American soldier is coming to stay with 12-year-ol ...Show more
The Halfmen of O (#1 The O Trilogy) by Maurice Gee
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: O Trilogy
'Nick had seen the birthmark on Susan's wrist. It had two parts. Each was shaped like a tear drop, curved like a moon. One was bright red and the other golden brown.' Susan had always been a bit odd and never really got on with her cousin Nick, but the mark on her wrist draws them together in a frighten ...Show more
Slope, Style, Fashion (Lily Max #2) by Jane Bloomfield
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Lily Max
'I thought you said you could ski, Lily Max?' says Violet. Like my outfit screams CANNOT SKI or something. Exuberant young fashionista Lily Max finds herself in a major predicament on the first day of school skiing. Miss Sprotts is totally NOT COOL with her radically modified ski outfit - and everyone i ...Show more
The Tunnel of Dreams by Bernard Beckett
21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
In an abandoned house at the end of their street, twin brothers Stefan and Arlo discover a young girl hiding in its dusty shadows. Alice needs their help - her twin sister is locked in a cage suspended high above a mysterious mine in a strange parallel world-and she asks an impossible favour. Will they ...Show more
Stop the Tour! (My New Zealand Story) by Bill Nagelkerke
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
The Springbok Tour held in New Zealand over 3 months in 1981 remains one of the most divisive periods in New Zealandâs recent history. Through his (fictional) diary entries, we learn about 13-year-old Martin Daly's experiences during the tour and his thoughts and feelings about the escalating conflict. ...Show more
Frog Whistle Mine by Des Hunt
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Set in Charleston, a gold-mining ghost town 30km south of Westport, Frog Whistle Mine is another of Des Hunt's trademark exciting, beautifully written contemporary action adventure stories for children, with ecological themes. Twelve-year-old Tony has lived all around New Zealand, travelling with his no ...Show more