My Own Lightning (#2 Wolf Hollow) by Lauren Wolk
$21.00 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Wolf Hollow
The powerful and captivating sequel to the award-winning Wolf Hollow. 'Harper Lee has a worthy successor. Wolk is a big new talent' The Times Several months have passed since devastating events changed the sleepy community of Wolf Hollow forever. Annabelle, still trying to make sense of her own part ...Show more
Hetty and the Battle of the Books by Anna James
$14.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A passionate campaign brings four best friends back together in a fight to save their school library in this heartwarming tale from bestselling author Anna James. A passionate campaign brings four best friends back together in a fight to save their school library in this heartwarming tale from the bests ...Show more
Birdsong by Katya Balen
$17.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
After a devastating car crash, Annie is unable to play her flute and retreats from the music she's always loved.She exists in a world of angry silence - furious with her mum and furious she can't seem to play her beloved flute any more.Then she meets Noah, who shows her the blackbirds' nest hidden in t ...Show more
My Mum Is A Spy by Andy McNab, Jess French
$16.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
When Lucia and her dad come to stay with Idris and his mum, Lucia is convinced Idris' mum is a spy. And that just can't be true... can it? My mum is absolutely definitely 100% NOT a spy... When Lucia and her dad come to stay for half term, Idris can't believe his bad luck. He had prepared himself to sha ...Show more
Parvana by Deborah Ellis
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Based on real-life events, Parvana is the compelling story of a young girl in Afghanistan who is determined to provide for herself and her family. This bestselling novel is recommended by Malala Yousafzai and continues to inspire young readers around the world. Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her fam ...Show more
We Were Wolves by Jason Cockcroft
$22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
An intense, darkly spellbinding story of a boy awaiting his father's return from prison as an ancient woodland awakes. Nominated for the Carnegie Medal Boy lives in a caravan on his own in the woods. His dad, John, is in prison and promises to get out soon. All the boy needs to do is survive alone for a ...Show more
The Giant's Necklace by Michael Morpurgo
$16.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A tense and thrilling ghost story that revisits Cornwall's industrial past. Short-storytelling at its very best, from the UK's most beloved writer for children, the internationally acclaimed author of War Horse. It all began with a necklace, made of glistening pink cowrie shells. A long, long necklace t ...Show more
Cuckoo Summer by Jonathan Tulloch
$21.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
When Tommy and Sally discover a wounded Nazi airman who has been shot down in their local woods, they must decide whether to report him or keep him hidden.Summer 1940. As the cuckoo sings out across the Lake District, life is about to change for ever for local boy Tommy and his friend Sally, the mysteri ...Show more
Tilda by Sue Whiting
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
L.M. Montgomery meets Ruth Park in a story of friendship, hope and resilience. You have a big heart. And people blessed with a big heart have a choice to make. Do they fill that heart with light and love or do they fill it with darkness and hate? This is your choice to make, Matilda. Make it wisely. T ...Show more
A Little Spark by Barry Jonsberg
$18.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
From the bestselling multi-award-winning author of My Life as an Alphabet and A Song Only I Can Hear comes another wonderful middle fiction novel that is warm, upbeat, intriguing and wholly absorbing. I don't tell Mum and Sam anything about my weekends with Dad. It would be giving them tickets into that ...Show more
Noah's Gold by Frank Cottrell Boyce
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
'Brilliantly entertaining & thought provoking . . . I am in total awe.' David Walliams'Proper, sparkly, witty, enticing storytelling . . . It's perfect.' Hilary McKayPacked with mystery, adventure and laughs, Noah's Gold is the exciting novel from the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of Milli ...Show more
The Goodbye Year by Emily Gale
$21.00 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A thoughtful and gentle middle-grade novel about the excitement and apprehension of life on the cusp of change at the end of primary school It's the start of 2020 and Harper is filled with anticipation about being in the final year of Riverlark Primary. She wants a leadership role, the comfort of her f ...Show more