Frankie Best Hates Quests by Chris Smith
$17.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
ONWARD and JUMANJI meets The Wizard in my Shed in an accessible Pixar-like fantasy for 9-12 readers by bestselling author Chris Smith. Frankie is not happy. Not only is she stuck at Grandad's for a whole week while her parents swan off to the arctic, now she's discovered that there's NO WIFI anywhere in ...Show more
The Pony Question by Jackie Merchant
$18.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
The happiness of a young girl and a pony in desperate need of saving depends on the other. Essie doesn't believe in signs or wishing on stars. She likes facts, and the fact is, she's left her love of horses firmly in the past. She doesn't want a new horse and she certainly doesn't need one, not with the ...Show more
The Homecoming Horse by Jackie Merchant
$18.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A touching novel about finding your home, even if it doesn't look the way you expected. Kennedy and Dad have been on the move since Mum left and their farm had to be sold. When Dad takes on a horse called Ugly, the plan for the horse is clear from the start - train him up, sell him off and put the money ...Show more
Kemosha of the Caribbean by Alex Wheatle
$21.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Born a slave, Kemosha makes a desperate bid for her freedom. But the only way to win her brother's freedom is on the high seas - with the notorious Captain MorganKemosha and her brother have lived their whole lives in slavery. Sold away to work in lawless Port Royal, Kemosha takes her chance to escape b ...Show more
Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
$24.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A Barnes & Noble Best Young Adult Books of 2016 | A New York Public Library Best Books for Teens in 2016| An Amazon Best YA Books of 2016 Charlie Davis is in pieces. At seventeen, she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget it through cutting; the pai ...Show more
The Sky Over Rebecca by Matthew Fox
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
There was a single trail of footprints, the first I'd seen all morning. They were fresh tracks, I saw, the edges of the impressions in the snow quite hard. Small feet. Like mine. Someone my age. Then they stopped. When mysterious footprints appear in the Stockholm snow, ten-year-old Kara must discover ...Show more
Halfway to Harmony by Barbara O'Connor
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Walter Tipple is looking for adventure. He keeps having a dream that his big brother, Tank, appears before him and says, "Let's you and me go see my world, little man." But Tank left for the army and never came home, and Walter doesn't know how to see the world without him. Then he meets Posey, the bras ...Show more
The Week at World's End by Emma Carroll
$16.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
1962, London during the Cuban Missile Crisis What would you do if there was a real possibility that the world might end? Ray, aware of his parents' building worry, decides to take matters into his own hands. He builds a shelter in the woods behind his house in the hope that he never has to use it. Only ...Show more
The Rat-Catcher’s Apprentice by Maggie Jankuloska
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Age range 9 to 12 It’s 1665. Rats have infested homes and alleys in Marie Perrin’s provincial French town. Twelve-year-old Marie is set to become a maid, although she hungers for adventure. However, one mistake alters her fate and as punishment she is forced to apprentice for an intimidating rat-catcher ...Show more
Julia and the Shark (PB) by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A captivating, powerful and luminous story from a bestselling, award-winning author about a mother, a daughter, and the great Greenland shark. With mesmerising black and yellow illustrations and presented as a deluxe hardback with tracing paper inserts, this is a perfect gift for 9+ fans of David Almond ...Show more
The Wild Path by Sarah R. Baughman
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
The Line Tender meets The Secret Horses of Briar Hill in this hopeful, heartfelt story about one girl's search for legendary horses and her quest to piece her family back together. Twelve-year-old Claire Barton doesn't like the "flutter feeling" that fills her chest when she worries about the future, ...Show more
Ana on the Edge by A. J. Sass
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
For fans of George and Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World, a heartfelt coming of age story about a nonbinary ice skater navigating a binary world. Twelve-year-old Ana-Marie Jin, the reigning US Juvenile figure skating champion, is not a frilly dress kind of kid. So, when Ana learns that next season's p ...Show more