The Pōrangi Boy (Porangi) by Shilo Kino
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
Twelve-year-old Niko lives in Pohe Bay, a small, rural town with a sacred hot spring and a taniwha named Taukere. The government wants to build a prison over the home of the taniwha, and Niko's grandfather is busy protesting. People call him pōrangi, crazy, but when he dies, it's up to Niko to convince ...Show more
Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea by T K Roxborogh
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
On a beach clean-up, thirteen-year-old one-legged Charlie and his half-brother, Robbie, find a ponaturi - a mermaid - washed up on a beach. An ancient grudge between the Maori gods Tane and Tangaroa has flared up because a port being built in the bay is degrading the ocean and creatures are fleeing the ...Show more
The Dragon Defenders (#1) by James Russell
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: The Dragon Defenders
The wild and wonderful island home of Flynn and Paddy holds an incredible secret: dragons live there! When evil boss The Pitbull finds out, he sends his men to kill a dragon, and to bring him back the body. He also wants a dragon's egg, so he can hatch it in his private zoo. Flynn and Paddy's world is a ...Show more
Skinny Dip: Poetry by Susan Paris & Kate De Goldi
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
A poetry anthology from the makers of the famous Annuals. A new school year: nits, crushes, maths lessons, and rainy-day lunchtimes. But what happens when you send a bunch of poets to school? They loiter in corners and see between the lines. They notice the school bus is missing, there are hungry piranh ...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
Where the Rekohu Bone Sings by Tina Makereti
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
From the Chatham Islands/ Rekohu to London, from 1835 to the 21st century, this quietly powerful and compelling novel confronts the complexity of being Moriori, Maori and Pakeha.In the 1880s, Mere yearns for independence. Iraia wants the same but, as the descendant of a slave, such things are hardly con ...Show more
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
The birth of a daughter - Kahu - breaks the lineage of a Maori tribe. Rejected by her grandfather, Kahu develops the ability to communicate with whales, echoing those of the ancient Whale Rider after whom she was named. This magical and mythical novel tells of the conflict between tradition and heritage ...Show more
Potiki by Patricia Grace
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
In a small coastal community threatened by developers who would ravage their lands it is a time of fear and confusion - and growing anger. The prophet child Tokowaru-i-te-Marama shares his people's struggles against bulldozers and fast money talk. When dramatic events menace the marae, his grief and rag ...Show more
Lit: Stories from Home by Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
Home-grown literary heroes, established contemporary authors, and award-winning emerging writers have been brought together in this new short story collection. Sixteen stories have been selected specifically for New Zealand/Aotearoa secondary English classroom teaching, with stories exploring ideas abou ...Show more
Hine and the Tohunga Portal by Ataria Sharman
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Hine and the Tohunga Portal is a fast-paced fantasy adventure. Hine and her brother, Hōhepa, unwittingly step through a portal into an ancient realm inhabited by the atua Māori (Māori deities), Kea bird tribes, patupaiarehe (fairy people), moa and giant eagles. This world is in turmoil as evil sorcerer ...Show more
Bugs by Whiti Hereaka
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Bugs is about the unfolding lives of three young people in their last year of school in small-town New Zealand. Life is slow, and it seems not much happens in town or in Jez and Bugs's lives. But when Stone Cold arrives, the three come to different conclusions about how to deal with being trapped in a s ...Show more
Mansfield and Me - A Graphic Memoir by Sarah Laing
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Katherine Mansfield is a literary giant in New Zealand-but she had to leave the country to become one. She wrote, 'Oh to be a writer, a real writer.' And a real writer she was, until she died at age 34 of tuberculosis. The only writer Virginia Woolf was jealous of, Mansfield hung out with the modernists ...Show more