Harriet And The Eye Of The Bird by Julie Lamb
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
One moment Harriet's only problem is that she's not allowed to get her nose pierced, and the next her dad has disappeared. Now there's a new home, a new school and new friends that are not really friends at all. Awkward Alice who forgets her lunch is not a great substitute, nor is the monster gnawing at ...Show more
Torn Apart - the Partition of India, 1947 by Swapna Haddow
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
A thrilling and moving account of the largest movement of people in history, telling both sides of the story through the voices of children at the heart of Partition. It's October 1947 and two young boysfind themselves thrown together during the dramatic changes of Partition. As the new India and Paki ...Show more
Below by David Hill
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
A nerve-wracking underground adventure from a master storyteller . . . Caught in a tunnel collapse, Liam and Imogen have to use all their wits to survive in this gripping novel for readers eight years and up. When you stood deep inside the tunnel, you could hear the mountain groaning overhead. That's ...Show more
Those Snake Island Kids (#1 Those Kids) by Jon Tucker
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
An uplifting tale of youthful naivety, friendship, calamity and triumph. When Jake persuades his family to embark on a sailing-camping holiday on a Tasmanian island, he is mostly interested in pirate fantasies and his home-built Optimist sailing dinghy. But he does not plan on events which are to leave ...Show more
Steel Pelicans by Des Hunt
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Inseparable best friends Dean and Pelly frequently get up to no good. Dean is a dare-devil, and Pelly always seems to end up going along for the ride. Dean's amateur bomb-making is one step too far, and is soon followed by a bombshell of another sort: Pelly's parents are shifting the family back to New ...Show more
The Impossible Boy by Leonie Agnew
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Can an imaginary friend become real? A spell-binding and exciting new novel from Leonie Agnew, author of the award-winning Conrad Cooper's Last Stand. Benjamin figures Vincent Gum can do anything. Which I can. I'm not possible. Yet here I am. Ben literally pushed me out of his head and into the world. ...Show more
The Loblolly Boy and the Sorcerer (#2) by James Norcliffe
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: The Loblolly Boy
The Loblolly boy wants his old life back and his plight is all the more poignant for his searching. In this stunning junior fiction fantasy sequel to The Loblolly Boy, Michael convinces the unhappy boy at the Great Hall to Exchange with him once again, and Michael begins a magical journey home. Complica ...Show more
Quarantine (My New Zealand Story) by Philippa Werry
21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
“Being in quarantine sounds like being in prison,” I said, shivering. Lily nodded. “A bit like that. Except that the prison is your own home.” It might sound familiar in 2021, but this is New Zealand in 1936–37. The disease is infantile paralysis, or polio, and nobody knows where it will strike next. Wh ...Show more