Author: | Sophie Siers |
Category: |
NZ Picture Books |
Series: | Allis the Little Tractor |
Reading Level: | 3 to 6 |
Awards: | Winner of the Best First Book Award at the NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults 2016 |
Just imagine how Allis feels when her best friend Toby brings his Uncle to see her. 'I think Allis is thirsty, let's find her something to drink' Allis' heart jumped. 'I am thirsty, I am thirsty,' she cried. Let the adventure begin!
Author: | Kat Merewether |
Category: |
NZ Picture Books |
Series: | Kuwi the Kiwi |
Kuwi the Kiwi decides to take Chick on his first huhu hunt. They could make huhu hangi, huhu hummus and huhu BBQ...Kuwi is an endangered brown kiwi and a new mum with a very fussy chick. Will she ever find Chick any huhu to eat? A superb book from a well known author and i... read more
Author: | Aaron Topp |
Category: |
NZ Young Adult Fiction |
"Life has been pretty average for Cody Harrington lately. First, there's his job at the bike shop where he's being blamed for not locking the door and causing a burglary. Then there's his wild brother Zane who's promised his parents he's back on the rails, but is he? As ... read more
PUBLICATION SEPTEMBER 2015
Author: | Gregory O'Brien |
Category: |
Photography & Film |
Awards: | Non-Fiction Finalist 2016 - NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults |
Photography was invented the year before the Treaty of Waitangi was signed. Within a few years, cameras were charting the life and times of people at this end of the planet. See What I Can See is a celebration of the camera - th... read more
PUBLICATION OCTOBER 2015
Author: | Donovan Bixley |
Category: |
Biography & Autobiography |
Reading Level: | General Adult |
Awards: | Winner of the Russell Clark Illustration Award at the NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults 2016 |
There has never been a period when Shakespeare was out of fashion. In his lifetime he was incredibly successful, and soon after his death his works were published to the world.
Within these pages you will find a new interpretation of Shakespeare's stage... read more
Author: | Jane Bloomfield |
Category: |
NZ Middle Fiction |
Series: | Lily Max |
Awards: | Shortlisted for New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults: Junior Fiction 2016. |
The adventures of Lily Max, a schoolgirl at Middle Lakes Normal, who is crazy about fashion. When she hears the school ball has a prize for best-dressed costume, she comes up with her most daring designs yet...but reckons without her arch-enemy, Violet Hughes.... read more
Author: | Brando Yelavich |
Category: |
Biography & Autobiography |
Awards: | Shortlisted for New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults: HELL Children's Choice Non-Fiction 2016. |
Fast going off the rails and hanging out with the wrong crowd, Brando Yelavich, a plucky 20-year-old from Auckland's North Shore, decided he needed to change his life. He needed a mission. He was going to walk around New Zealand. Bra... read more
PUBLICATION JULY 2015
Author: | David Hill |
Category: |
NZ Picture Books |
Reading Level: | Children's - Grade 1-2, Age 6-7 |
Awards: | Winner of the HELL Children's Choice Non Fiction Award at the NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults 2016 STORYLINES NOTABLE PICTURE BOOK 2015 New Zealand Listener Top 50 Children's Books |
Up on the world's highest mountain, the sky is tinged the black colour of space and the air is almost too thin to breathe. How did Ed, a small, shy boy from the tiny town of Tuakau in New Zealand, grow up to become the world's... read more
PUBLICATION AUGUST 2015
Author: | Sarah Johnson |
Category: |
NZ Middle Fiction |
Awards: | Shortlisted for New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults: Junior Fiction 2016. |
Malachi's life is dull,dull,dull. Dad's always busy and school is dreary, especially science. Then Malachi finds a mysterious bottle on the seashore, and things start to get exciting. What he discovers inside the bottle sends Malachi on the journey of his life. But p... read more
Author: | Brian Falkner |
Category: |
NZ Senior Fiction |
Series: | Battlesaurus |
Awards: | Winner of the Young Adult category of the 2016 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards A Junior Library Guild Selection |
Fifteen-year-old Willem lives in hiding in a small Belgian village on the edge of the great Sonian Forest. Willem and his mother have been living in secret for most of his life since his father, a famous magician, fell out of favour with the French Emper... read more
Author: | Patricia Grace |
Category: |
NZ Picture Books |
Awards: | Finalist In The New Zealand Book Awards For Children And Young Adults 2016 |
Ngati Toa chief Te Rauparaha is pursued by his enemies and fears for his life. At Lake Rotoaira, he is hidden in a kumara pit, and Te Rangikoaea, a woman of great power, sits in front of its entrance. As he hears his enemies, Te Rauparaha whispers in the dark 'Will I die?' Will I... read more
Author: | Patricia Grace |
Category: |
Te Reo Maori Language |
Awards: | Winner of the Te Kura Pounamu Award at NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults 2016 Shortlisted for HELL Children's Choice Te reo Maori at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2016 |
This is the story of the great Ngati Toa chief Te Rauparaha and how he came to compose the haka 'Ka Mate, Ka Mate'.
Te Rauparaha is pursued across the island by his enemies and he fears for his life. At Lake Rotoaira, he is hidden in a kumara pit, and Te Rang... read more