A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grim Grotto 11 by Lemony Snicket
25.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14 | Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events
Dear Listener, Unless you are a slug, a sea anemone, or mildew, you probably prefer not to be damp. You might also prefer not to listen to this audiobook, in which the Baudelaire siblings descend into the depths of despair, underwater. The horrors they encounter are too numerous to list, and include mus ...Show more
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1) by Lemony Snicket
25.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14 | Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky. In the tradition of great storytellers, from Dickens to Dahl, comes an exquisitely dark comedy that is both literary and ir ...Show more
Mim and the Baffling Bully (The Travelling Bookshop, #1): CBCA Notable Book 2022 by Katrina Nannestad
20.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14 | Series: The Travelling Bookshop
The right book might just change your life ... Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arriv ...Show more
The World's Worst Teachers by David Walliams
19.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14 | Series: World's Worst Ser.
A delightfully dreadful collection of the most gruesome grown-ups - from the phenomenally bestselling David Walliams and artistic genius Tony Ross Think your teachers are bad? Wait until you meet this lot. These ten tales of the world's most splendidly sinister teachers will have you running for the sch ...Show more
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (#1 Harry Potter PB) by J.K. Rowling
22.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14 | Series: Harry Potter | Reading Level: very good
Strange things always seem to happen when Harry Potter is around. Things that unsettle his guardians, the Dursleys. They strongly disapprove of strangeness. It's only when a letter arrives, delivered by a shaggy giant of a man called Hagrid, that Harry learns the truth that will transform his entire fut ...Show more
Jodie by Hilary McKay
18.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14
Trapped and alone on the salt marshes, Jodie is troubled by a haunting presence in this eerily atmospheric ghost story from multi-award-winning author Hilary McKay. Jodie never wanted to come on the residential trip to the field centre. A loner at school, she's forced into a dormitory with other girls f ...Show more
Paper and Fire (#2 Novels of the Great Library) by Rachel Caine
18.99 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14 | Series: Novels of the Great Library
The New York Times Bestseller In Ink and Bone, bestselling author Rachel Caine introduced a world where knowledge is power, and power corrupts absolutely. Now she continues the story of those who dare to defy the Great Library--and rewrite history... Jess Brightwell has survived his introduction to ...Show more
Willow Moss and the Vanished Kingdom (#3 Starfell) by Dominique Valente
20.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14 | Series: Starfell
For the very first time, magical children like Willow are allowed to go to school alongside their non-magical neighbours. But Willow is suspicious. She knows the Brothers of Wol are up to no good, so why are they changing the rules all of a sudden? On her first day, Willow meets an elf girl named Twist, ...Show more
Mask (#2 The League of Secret Heroes) by Kate Hannigan
18.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14 | Series: The League of Secret Heroes
“Pitch-perfect action scenes…A winning blend of comedy, superheroics, inspirational women from history, and puzzle-solving.” —Kirkus Reviews A trio of young superheroes try to thwart a spy in this second book in the action-packed, comics-inspired adventure series that’s Hidden Figures meets Wonder Woman ...Show more
The Wide Window (#3 A Series of Unfortunate Events) by Lemony Snicket
20.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14 | Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events | Reading Level: very good
If you like stories with happy endings, listen to something elseDear Listener,If you have not heard anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted, but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of ...Show more
The Field Guide (#1 Spiderwick Chronicles) by Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black
21.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14 | Series: The\Spiderwick Chronicles Ser.
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the international bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles. After finding a mysterious handmade field guide in the attic of the ramshackle old mansion they've just moved into, the Grace children - Jared, Simon and Mallory - discover that there's a magical and maybe dangerous w ...Show more
Something Like Home by Andrea Beatriz Arango
19.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14
A heartfelt and moving novel in verse for readers 9+.who wants a temporary placeto act like a forever one?Especially when the social services people keep telling youover and over and over that placeis "safer" than your parentsis a "good" solutionis someone you're "extremely lucky"to have offered you a h ...Show more