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Baa Baa Smart Sheep by Mark Sommerset; Rowan Sommerset

$19.99 NZD

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Category: NZ Picture Books

Kids who love wicked humor will gobble up this tale of a trickster sheep and a comically gullible turkey. Ewww   Little Baa Baa is bored. So when Quirky Turkey comes along, the opportunity to make mischief is too good to resist. "What's that?" asks Turkey, pointing at a suspicious something on the groun d. "What's what?" "That there." "This here?" "Yes, that there." "Oh, it's just a pile of . . . smarty tablets." "Ohhh. . ." After a well-sustained buildup evoking hilarity and disbelief, this kid-pleasing trickster tale will have readers both groaning and laughing out loud at the payoff. ...Show more

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The Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

$79.99 NZD

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Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: The Chronicles of Narnia

All seven tales in The Chronicles of Narnia are bound together, with full-colour illustrations, in one magnificent hardcover volume with a personal introduction by Douglas Gresham, stepson of C. S. Lewis. Talking beasts, heroic deeds and epic battles between good and evil await you in C. S. Lewis's cla ssic fantasy series, which has been enchanting readers for over sixty years. This edition presents the seven books-The Magician's Nephew, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Horse and His Boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, and The Last Battle-unabridged and arranged in C.S. Lewis's preferred order, featuring full-colour artwork by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. ...Show more

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The Vanishing Deep by Astrid Scholte

$22.99 NZD

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Category: Teen Fiction

Two sisters. One dangerous secret. Twenty-four hours to uncover the truth. Seventeen-year-old Tempest was born into a world of water. The most skilled diver on the Equinox Reef, she searches drowned cities with her older sister Elysea, seeking out old world treasures to trade for Notes. After Elysea mys teriously drowns, Tempest scavenges the ruins alone, driven to collect enough Notes to buy her sister's life for 24 hours, and to finally learn the secret she had kept until her last breath. However, once revived, Elysea convinces Tempest to break her out of the Palindromena research facility and they embark on a dangerous journey to discover the truth about their parents' death. But they're pursued by two Palindromena employees desperate to find them before Elysea's time is up and prevent them from uncovering the secret behind the revival process and the true cost of restored lives. Dead or living, everyone must pay the price. ...Show more

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This Is a Ball and Other Books That Drive Kids Crazy (Books That Drive Kids Crazy, #1-5) by Beck Stanton; Matt Stanton

$39.99 NZD

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Category: Boxed Sets | Series: Books That Drive Kids Crazy

FIVE BESTSELLING, MIND-BOGGLING BOOKS THAT WILL GET KIDS GIGGLING   PRAISE FOR THE BOOKS THAT DRIVE KIDS CRAZY SERIES   'The kids are having a ball (whoops, having fun) and a discussion is born' - 4 stars, Good Reading   'Funny, clever, deliciously dry ... this book encourages kids to think outsid e the square, and hopefully, somewhere deep in that unlimited subconscious, understand that what we see is all about perception. What a powerful thought' - Kids' Book Review   'Witty, silly, and interactive ... A rollicking read for children and adults alike' - Kirkus Reviews ...Show more

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Willow Moss and the Lost Day (#1 Starfell) by Dominique Valente

$19.99 NZD

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Category: Fantasy, Magic and Science Fiction | Series: Starfell

Willow Moss, the youngest and least powerful sister in a family of witches, has a magical ability for finding lost things - like keys, or socks, or wooden teeth. Useful, but not exactly exciting . . . Then the most powerful witch in the world of Starfell turns up at Willow's door and asks for her help. A whole day - last Tuesday to be precise - has gone missing. Completely. And, without it, the whole universe could unravel. Now Willow holds the fate of Starfell in her rather unremarkable hands . . . Can she save the day - by finding the lost one? Step into Starfell, a world crackling with warmth, wit and magic, perfect for readers aged 8-12. ...Show more

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Stuck by Oliver Jeffers

$18.99 NZD

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Category: Picture Books

Delightful chaos ensues when a young boy gets his kite stuck up a tree in this laugh-out-loud new picture book from award-winning, internationally best-selling author-illustrator Oliver Jeffers!Floyd gets his kite stuck up a tree. He throws up his shoe to shift it, but that gets stuck too. So he throws up his other shoe and that gets stuck, along with... a ladder, a pot of paint, the kitchen sink, an orang-utan and a whale, amongst other things!Will Floyd ever get his kite back?A hilarious book with a wonderful surprise ending. ...Show more

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The Ghouls of Howlfair by Nick Tomlinson

$18.99 NZD

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Category: Mystery and Detective Stories

Molly Thompson has lots of questions. Questions like, is her Aunt Carol an undead fiend who drinks the blood of the living? Is she secretly lurking in the attic? And is Molly's friend Lowry a descendant of a long line of Kroglin werewolves?Serious young historian Molly suspects that the creepy legends a bout her tourist town of Howlfair are starting to come true. But when her mother bans her from doing any further research, bookworm Molly and her friends - Lowry and guardian-cat Gabriel - become covert monster-hunters to keep Howlfair safe. It seems that someone is secretly trying to summon Howlfair's mythical monsters, and with the election of a new town mayor looming, everything - and everyone - is becoming increasingly suspicious... ...Show more

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The Afterwards by A. F. Harrold

$18.99 NZD

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Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds

Fact- Ember and Ness are best friends.There's nothing more to say about it. It is what it is. It is what will always be. Ember and Ness.Then Ness dies. It is sudden and unexpected and leaves Ember completely empty. How can this be?When Ember finds a way into the Afterworld, she determines to bring Ness back. Because that's what friends do isn't it? They rescue each other. They help. They never give up. Ember and Ness. That don't change.A powerful, poignant, darkly comic and deeply moving story about friendship at its most extraordinary. ...Show more

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Becoming Dinah by Kit De Waal

$19.99 NZD

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Category: Teen Fiction

In her first YA novel, Costa-shortlisted Kit de Waal responds to classic Moby Dick by tearing the power away from obsessive Captain Ahab and giving it to a teenage girl. Dinah's whole world is upside down, dead things and angry men and cuts all over her head that are beginning to sting.... Seventeen-y ear-old Dinah needs to leave her home, the weird commune where she grew up. She needs a whole new identity, starting with how she looks, starting with shaving off her hair, her 'crowning glory'. She has to do it quickly, because she has to go now. Dinah was going to go alone and hitch a ride down south. Except, she ends up being persuaded to illegally drive a VW campervan for hundreds of miles, accompanied by a grumpy man with one leg. This wasn't the plan. But while she's driving, Dinah will be forced to confront everything that led her here, everything that will finally show her which direction to turn... In her first YA novel, Costa-shortlisted author Kit de Waal responds to the classic Moby Dick with entirely new characters, a VW campervan, and by tearing the power away from obsessive Captain Ahab and giving it to a teenage girl who's determined to find a new life, far away from her unconventional upbringing. ...Show more

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Llama Destroys the World by Jonathan Stutzman

$17.99 NZD

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Category: Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds

Meet Llama, a true hero for the ages, who has most definitely driven a bus and who loves cake way more than you. On Monday, Llama discovers a pile of cake, which he promptly eats. On Tuesday, Llama squeezes into his dancing trousers, which he promptly rips. The force of the rip creates a black hole (na turally). By Friday, Llama will (indirectly) destroy the world. In their debut picture book, author/illustrator team Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox introduce young readers to the hilarious, the oblivious, the apocalyptically adorable Llama. So grab some cake and prepare to dance . . . because the time for Llama is nigh! ...Show more

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The Peculiar Peggs of Riddling Woods by Samuel J. Halpin

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Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds

When Poppy moves to Suds to stay with her grandmother, she discovers three peculiar women at the heart of this sleepy little town who seem to weave a strange magic over the inhabitants. But there's an even bigger mystery to solve. Children have been disappearing from Suds. Children who turned completely grey before they disappeared. Can Poppy and her new friend Erasmus brave the Riddling Woods and solve both mysteries? ...Show more

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