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
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
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
The Pōrangi Boy (Porangi) by Shilo Kino
$24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
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
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
Children of the Rush (#2) by James Russell
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: The Children of the Rush
All is well in Gabriel's Gully, the ramshackle gold rush town. But not for long. Michael and Atarangi have become firm friends with Siu, a Chinese miner's daughter who came to the schoolhouse to learn. But when bad news from the coast draws their parents away, things take a shocking turn. Disaster strik ...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
The Sparrow by Tessa Duder
$22.99 NZD
Category: NZ Teen Fiction
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
Below by David Hill
$22.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
A nerve-wracking underground adventure from a master storyteller . . . Caught in a tunnel collapse, Liam and Imogen have to use all their wits to survive in this gripping novel for readers eight years and up. When you stood deep inside the tunnel, you could hear the mountain groaning overhead. That's ...Show more
Access Denied (#1 S.T.E.A.L.T.H./ Stealth) by Jason Rohan
$21.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: S.T.E.A.L.T.H.
When his dad disappears, Arun Lal is amazed to discover that he was secretly working on a classified project and has been kidnapped by people intent on stealing it. Along with his geeky best friend Sam and tough-talking Donna, Arun is plunged into a race to rescue his father and find his creation before ...Show more
The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell
$20.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell - From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Prize 'A writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination' Philip Pullman Feodora and her mother live in the snowbound woods of Russia, in a house full of food and fireplaces. Ten minutes away, in a ...Show more