Nine Girls by Stacy Gregg
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Children - 9 to 14 | Reading Level: middle fiction
Nine Girls is a page-turning adventure from Stacy Gregg, one of Aotearoa's most internationally successful and locally awarded writers.An epic story woven with suspense by Pony Club Secrets and The Princess and the Foal author Stacy Gregg.They dug a hole and they put the box filled with gold inside it.T ...Show more
Mophead: How Your Difference Makes a Difference by Selina Tusitala Marsh
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Children - 9 to 14 | Series: Mophead
An inspirational graphic memoir of growing up Pasifika in New Zealand, written and illustrated by our fast-talking PI Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh. At school, Selina is teased for her big, frizzy hair. Kids call her ‘mophead’. She ties her hair up this way and that way and tries to fit in. Until ...Show more
Take Me to Your Leader by Leonie Agnew
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Children - 9 to 14
Eleven-year-old Lucas has got a new worry to add to his long, long list - his rural school is on the Ministry of Education's list for closure. What's his mum going to do if he and his sister have to start travelling to a school an hour or two away? She can't drive them; she certainly can't afford boardi ...Show more
The Sparrow by Tessa Duder
22.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
A powerful new historical novel from one of New Zealand's best-loved YA authors. An exciting new novel from the author of Alex. In September 1840, two ships arrive on the shores of the Waitemata Harbour to establish Auckland, the new capital of New Zealand. Among the settlers on board the Platina is yo ...Show more
Time's Raven (#2 Eternity Loop) by Eileen Merriman
22.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Eternity Loop
Can you escape an eternal loop? Book 2 of the gritty, fast-paced, thought-provoking Eternity Loop series. What's done cannot be undone. Don't forget. Having broken the rules against time travel, Indigo is in trouble with everyone, but at least the problem of Billy Raven has been solved - hasn't it? I ...Show more
Runt by Craig Silvey
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Children - 9 to 14
A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author of Jasper Jones and Honeybee. 'You don't have to carry the weight of the world in your tool belt.' Annie Shearer lives in the country town of Upson Downs with her best friend, an adopted stray dog called R ...Show more
Children of the Rush (#1) by James Russell
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Children - 9 to 14 | Series: Children of the Rush
It's 1861, and gold fever is sweeping the world. Otherwise sensible adults have gone mad and will do anything to get their hands on the precious metal. But two children have been caught up in the rush. Michael and Atarangi couldn't be more different, but they share one thing: each has a remarkable and m ...Show more
The Inkberg Enigma by Jonathan King
30.00 NZD
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
A graphic-novel mystery adventure for eight- to twelve-year-olds in which a girl and boy uncover the secret that has corrupted their seaside town. "Haven't you always thought there's something WEIRD about this town, Miro?" Miro and Zia live in Aurora, a fishing town nestled in the shadow of an ancient ...Show more
Spark Hunter by Sonya Wilson
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Children - 9 to 14
Over a million hectares of wild bush-clad land and one young hunter ... Nissa Marshall knows that something is hiding deep in the forests of Fiordland National Park - she's seen their lights in the trees. But what are they, and why does no one else seem to notice them? When Nissa abandons her school c ...Show more
The Halfmen of O (#1 The O Trilogy) by Maurice Gee
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Children - 9 to 14 | Series: O Trilogy | Reading Level: good
'Nick had seen the birthmark on Susan's wrist. It had two parts. Each was shaped like a tear drop, curved like a moon. One was bright red and the other golden brown.' Susan had always been a bit odd and never really got on with her cousin Nick, but the mark on her wrist draws them together in a frighten ...Show more
Duck's Backyard by Ulrich Hub
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Children - 9 to 14
A very funny illustrated chapter book by a bestselling author/illustrator pair about courage, true friendship and our most secret wishes, in which a duck with a limp takes a blind chicken on a goose chase, as they search for adventure and answers to some big questions. A duck spends her days limping ar ...Show more
Echo by Arlo Kelly
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Children - 9 to 14
Eric loves his quiet life living on a remote beach with its ever-changing weather. However he is visually impaired and gets frustrated by how his parents worry about him and restrict what he does on his own. But one summer Eric has a chance encounter with a minke whale which leads to a special connectio ...Show more