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Seaman and the Great Northern Adventure (Time Dogs #2) by Helen Moss; Misa Saburi (Illustrator)
$14.99 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds | Series: Time Dogs
An exciting new illustrated chapter book series for dog-loving readers from writer Helen Moss and artist Misa Saburi When a pack of senior dogs find themselves transported back in time--and turned into puppies --they must make their way back home, helping real-life historical dogs along the way. In t ...Show more
Stuck by Oliver Jeffers
$18.99 NZD
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 ...Show more
The Barnabus Project by The Fan Brothers
$32.99 NZD
Category: Hardback Books
Deep underground beneath Perfect Pets, where children can buy genetically engineered "perfect" creatures, there is a secret lab. Barnabus and his friends live in this lab, but none of them is perfect. They are all Failed Projects.Barnabus has never been outside his tiny bell jar, yet he dreams of one da ...Show more
The Dark by Lemony Snicket
$19.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books
Laszlo is afraid of the dark. The dark lives in the same house as Laszlo. Mostly, though, the dark stays in the basement and doesn't come into Lazslo's room. But one night, it does. This is the story of how Laszlo stops being afraid of the dark. With emotional insight and poetic economy, two ...Show more
The Erasure Initiative by Lili Wilkinson
$22.99 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction
A brilliant psychological thriller from one of Australia's finest YA authors. I wake up, and for a few precious seconds I don't realise there's anything wrong.The rumble of tyres on bitumen, and the hiss of air conditioning. The murmur of voices. The smell of air freshener. The cool vibration of glass a ...Show more
The Explorer by Katherine Rundell
$18.99 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 ...Show more
The Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe
$19.99 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction
As an ex con artist, Nora has always got herself out of tricky situations. But the ultimate test lies in wait when she's taken hostage in a bank heist. And this time, Nora doesn't have an escape plan. Meet Nora. Also known as Rebecca, Samantha, Hayley, Katie and Ashley - the girls she's been. Nora didn ...Show more
The Lights and Types of Ships at Night by Dave Eggers
$34.99 NZD
Category: Hardback Books
You may have heard of ships. You may have also heard of the sea and the night. But did you realize there's nothing more beautiful than a ship and its lights on the sea at night? In warm and witty prose, this picture book's narrator asks the reader to consider the splendor of glowing lights cast by ships ...Show more
The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Teen Fiction
Three strange men stood behind her. 'You're not alone on Teddy Carnival's Beach,' said one, not asking a question but sounding as if he were giving her a warning. The Hamiltons look forward to their annual Christmas holiday on the New Zealand coast. Jack and Naomi, their five children and their guests a ...Show more
The Vanishing Deep by Astrid Scholte
$22.99 NZD
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 ...Show more
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
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 ...Show more
Viola Vincent Reporting by Anna Kenna
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
There was a loud crack as the handlebars snapped off. Caitlin watched as her mother, with a surprised look on her face, somersaulted through the air like some bizarre circus performer, before landing with a dull thud on her back. The accident that almost killed her mother seals Caitlin’s own destiny. An ...Show more
