Uncle Trev and His Whistling Bull by Jack Lasenby
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Uncle Trev
It's the 1930s. Our storyteller is crook in bed, trying to get over a long sickness and wanting to go back to school, when Uncle Trev arrives to let Mum go out and do the shopping. Uncle Trev tells one story after another about the animals out on his farm and about his neighbour Gotta Henry. He also goe ...Show more
Chinatown Girl (My New Zealand Story) by Eva Wong Ng
21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Set in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1942, in an area of the city known as Chinatown where the descendants of the Chinese miners and market gardeners gathered together to maintain their culture and provide a sense of community. New Zealand is at war when Silvey starts her diary, but for Silvey this is just ...Show more
The World of Greek Mythology by Ben Spies
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Ever wondered what the Greek myths look like through the eyes of a child? Eleven-year-old author, Ben Spies, writes his version of some of the most thrilling tales from Greek mythology. From Titans to Olympians, The World of Greek Mythology delivers an action-packed retelling of the myths, from how th ...Show more
2020 by Ben Spies
21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Earth's orbit is moving closer to the Sun and our planet is heating up at an alarming rate. The spacecraft sent by NASA, to find a new home for the human race, has been destroyed by an alien force... Twelve-year-old Jacob and his mother, Susan, are fighting for survival while witnessing the horrors of ...Show more
Dog Tucker by Kathryn Drinkwater
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Angry and defiant, thirteen-year-old Devlin believes hes unwanted. His younger siblings, who have also been in foster care, are now back home with his mother, who is in an abusive relationship. Hes fed up with changing schools and foster homes, and tries unsuccessfully to run away from his foster-uncles ...Show more
The Haunting by Margaret Mahy
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
A brand-new edition of the Carnegie Medal-winning THE HAUNTING - written by internationally bestselling author, Margaret Mahy. 'Strong and terrifying . . . The novel winds up like a spring. A psychological thriller' - Times Literary Supplement Eight-year-old Barney has been haunted before. He thought it ...Show more
Stardust and the Daredevil Ponies (#4 Pony Club Secrets) by Stacy Gregg
17.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Pony Club Secrets
The fourth PONY CLUB SECRETS adventure by bestselling author of THE PRINCESS AND THE FOAL. Issie has landed her dream job - handling horses on a real film set And with a group of frisky palominos to deal with, Issie asks her friends at pony club to help out too. But it's not just the horses who play u ...Show more
Red Edge by Des Hunt
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Twelve-year-old Cassi Whelan and her dad have just moved into a repaired house on the edge of Christchurch's Red Zone. Although Cassi was only four when earthquakes decimated Christchurch, her memories still haunt her. An obsessive runner, she finds the wide-open spaces of the cleared Red Zone suit her ...Show more
Troubled Water (Viola Vincent Reporting #3) by Anna Kenna
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Fierce gusts jostled the car... a wave reared over the seawall and smashed against Caitlin’s window. A tropical cyclone is just one of the challenges Caitlin faces on her summer holiday. Her story about a polluted river causes a storm of another kind that stirs up community feelings that run as deep as ...Show more
The Iron Tomb (Pyramid Hunters #1) by Peter Vegas
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Pyramid Hunters
Join Sam Force on a fast-paced adventure through Egypt that's a mix of "Indiana Jones, National Treasure, and The Da Vinci Code" (School Library Journal) with the start to a brand-new series packed with puzzles and clues for readers to figure out along the way! When Sam Force goes to Egypt to spend ...Show more
Satin, Scissors, Frock (Lily Max #1) by Jane Bloomfield
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Lily Max
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. The author Jane Bloomfield says, "I hope my ...Show more
A Canoe in the Mist by Elsie Locke
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Collins Modern New Zealand Classics 3 Canoes in the Mist has been selected as the third title to be released in this series, after Tripswitch and The Blue Lawn. With a younger readership, of 9-12, this much-loved classic retells the traumatic events surrounding the 1886 eruption of Mt Tarawera, from the ...Show more