Calling the Whales by Jasbinder Bilan
18.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14
After rowing out to an island near their seaside home, Tulsi and Satchen discover a whale that has been trapped in a fishing net. Determined to try to free the poor creature, they repeatedly dive down into the freezing sea to cut the netting, but eventually, exhausted and with a storm rolling in, they ...Show more
Good Sports - A Storybook of Kiwi Sports Heroes by Stuart Lipshaw
45.00 NZD
Category: Children - Reference
GOOD SPORTS is a powerful illustrated storybook celebrating Aotearoa's sporting heroes.Be inspired by this collection of true stories about 50 remarkable Kiwi sports heroes- people who have set goals, aimed high and achieved their dreams. A real mixture of well-known and lesser-known stories, this book ...Show more
Those Shipwreck Kids (#3 Those Kids) by Jon Tucker
23.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14
A thought-provoking Ransome-inspired tale with strong appeal to adventure-loving readers in the nine to ninety-nine age bracket. Underlying its clear environmental theme is the conclusion that freedom and responsibility go hand in hand. When a Tasmanian sailing family anchors near an old wrecked hulk i ...Show more
Once Upon a Wickedness by Fleur Beale
22.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14
An exciting adventure novel for contemporary kids with a fairytale setting, a daring hero and message that you're never too young and powerless to stand up to tyrants! What happens when a group of school children, led by the resourceful ten-year-old Dance Violet, dare to ask those in power some hard qu ...Show more
The Blunders by David Walliams
25.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14
Absurd and hilarious, The Blunders is David Walliams’ funniest book yet – a laugh-out-loud tale of the most blundering and lovable family in history! A hugely entertaining adventure that combines timeless, nonstop comedy, the wild inventiveness of comics, a crumbling old house and a madcap family full ...Show more
Across the Sea: Wolf Girl 5 by Anh Do
18.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14 | Series: Wolf Girl
Gwen and the pack are back for a thrilling new adventure! On a mission to find their families, Gwen, Rupert and the dogs strike out across treacherous ice and frigid oceans. If they are to have any hope of survival, they must stowaway on a ship full of enemy soldiers. But sometimes help comes in unexpe ...Show more
The 13-Storey Treehouse (Colour Edition) by Andy Griffiths
23.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14
Andy and Terry's 13-storey treehouse is the most amazing treehouse in the world! It's got a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of man-eating sharks, a giant catapult, a secret underground laboratory and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and shoots marshmallows into your ...Show more
The 169-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton
18.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14
Andy and Terry have built their biggest and most astonishing treehouse yet! It has everything they - and you - could wish for, including an electric pony stable, a Santa Land, a NOISY level, a kangaroo-riding range, a WHATEVER-WEATHER-YOU-WANT dome, a 100% edible gingerbread house and a hall of funhouse ...Show more
Those Snake Island Kids (#1 Those Kids) by Jon Tucker
23.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14
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
Collision Course (#12 Friday Barnes) by R.A. Spratt
21.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14
Friday Barnes is Europe's most wanted in this latest installment of the bestselling detective series. Friday's Mum, the Nobel Prize winning physicist, has been accused of espionage. The police think she's been selling secrets about the CERN Hadron Super Collider. Friday knows her mother isn't capable of ...Show more
Those Eco-Pirate Kids (#2 Those Kids) by Jon Tucker
23.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14 | Reading Level: Adult
Fin has always been passionate about fishing so when he discovers an illegal net full of undersized fish in Sydney's northern waterways his first reaction is to empty it. The subsequent events turn a joint Kiwi-Australian family holiday into a rather more complex experience. An Arthur-Ransome-inspired ...Show more
Those Sugar-Barge Kids (#4 Those Kids) by Jon Tucker
23.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14
When three Australian sailing kids meet a couple of home-alone children who live on an old barge in New Zealand's Bay of Islands, they soon find themselves heavily involved in a conflict with one of the local oyster-farmers. The outcome is a signal to youngsters everywhere that it is possible to bring a ...Show more