All the Way Down by Stewart Foster
$21.00 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A life-affirming story about friendship, adventure and self-belief, from the award-winning author of The Bubble Boy. Perfect for fans of Louis Sachar's Holes and Elle McNicoll's A Kind of Spark.When three eleven-year-old 'problem children' are thrown together at summer camp, they're challenged to build ...Show more
Nightshade Revenge (#13 Alex Rider) by Anthony Horowitz
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Alex Rider
The world’s bestselling teenage spy takes on a new and daring mission. This much-awaited new book in the bestselling Alex Rider series continues Alex’s fight against the deadly assassins encountered in the last book, Nightshade. Alex still has unfinished business with this sinister group made up o ...Show more
Children of the Rush (#1) by James Russell
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | 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 Explorer: WINNER OF THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD by Katherine Rundell
$20.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him.As the plane crashes into t ...Show more
Koro's Star by Claire Aramakutu
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Set in the 1960s, Koro’s Star is a heart-warming, exciting, adventure story. It’s the beginning of the summer holidays in 1967 when 10-year-old Atama moves with his family into a new army base. His father, Atama’s hero, departs for Vietnam, asking Atama to look after his mum and his younger sister, Maia ...Show more
To the Ice by Thomas Tidholm
$27.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
An epic story set in a polar wilderness that blurs realism and imagination—fully illustrated for newly independent readers.Ida, Max and Jack go to the creek one winter’s day. They play on an ice floe then find themselves floating away—all the way to the polar ice, with just a box, a branch and some sand ...Show more
Striking Out: a Thrilling Novel from Superstar Striker Ian Wright by Musa Okwonga; Ian Wright
$26.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
From the writing team of Ian Wright and Musa Okwonga. Inspired by the story of the superstar striker, Ian Wright. CO-WINNER OF THE CHILDREN'S SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 "A thrilling book ... an uplifting story about triumph against all odds ... You don't have to be a football fan to love it!"Dav ...Show more
The Ape Star by Frida Nilsson
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
In this award-winning chapter book about prejudice and justice, an orphan girl is adopted by a gorilla who owns a junkyard. A surprising friendship grows between them. Jonna lives in an orphanage whose manager is strict and obsessed with cleanliness. Like all the other children, Jonna has only one drea ...Show more
The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
'Vita set her jaw, and nodded at New York City in greeting, as a boxer greets an opponent before a fight.' Fresh off the boat from England, Vita Marlowe has a job to do. Her beloved grandfather Jack has been cheated out of his home and possessions by a notorious conman with Mafia connections. Seeing J ...Show more
Glowrushes by Roberto Piumini
$22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A gorgeous modern classic from Italy - a stunning tale of friendship, beauty and mortality. Madurer is the son of a great lord, with untold wealth, but he is also the victim of a mysterious disease that means he cannot be exposed to sunlight or fresh air. He is confined to three windowless rooms inside ...Show more
Foxlight by Katya Balen
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
From the author of October, October, winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal, comes a heartbreaking and heart-warming story about sisterhood, found family and accepting love in the most unusual and unknown places. Fen and Rey were found curled up small and tight in the fiery fur of the foxes at the very edge ...Show more
Lopini the Legend by Feana Tu'akoi
$20.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
When Lopini is replaced as kapa haka leader at school, he starts to spiral. It doesn’t matter that he thinks it’s a good idea, or that he agreed to the change in the first place. He’s a hard-out perfectionist and this feels like a public failure. Lopini’s best mate, Fi, thinks he’s overreacting. After ...Show more