Koro's Star by Claire Aramakutu
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Set in the 1960s, Koro’s Star is a heart-warming, exciting, adventure story. It’s the beginning of the summer holidays in 1967 when 10-year-old Atama moves with his family into a new army base. His father, Atama’s hero, departs for Vietnam, asking Atama to look after his mum and his younger sister, Maia ...Show more
Ferris by Kate DiCamillo
$24.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real love story about a girl, a ghost, a grandmother, and growing up. It's the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer pandemonium: Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to beco ...Show more
The Letter with the Golden Stamp by Onjali Q. Rauf
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
'I can't remember how old I was when I first started collecting stamps. But I've got a whole shoebox full of them now. Mam used to help me collect them ... Before she got so ill that she lost her job, her friends...everything. Now it's my job to take care of her and protect her - and my little brother a ...Show more
Smile (Clarice Bean) by Lauren Child
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Clarice Bean Ser.
Clarice Bean is back with all her trademark humour in this heartwarming story by former Children's Laureate Lauren Child. At the moment I am daydreaming about inventing something exceptionordinarily good that could change the world for the better, because of all the things, it's the better that's neede ...Show more
Tweet by Morris Gleitzman
$21.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A boy and his beloved budgie are thrust into an epic adventure that could change everything. Absolutely everything. Birds. Lots of birds. The people of the world are puzzled. Their feathered friends are trying to tell them something, and they’re not sure what it is. Then a boy and his pet budgie discov ...Show more
No Words by Maryam Master
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Hero doesn't feel like a hero, but sometimes she feels as if the universe is asking her to be one. When Aria, a mysterious boy who never EVER speaks, starts at school and is picked on by His Royal Thug-ness Doofus (Rufus), Hero and her bestie Jaz feel compelled to help. But they're far too chicken to ac ...Show more
Exit Through the Gift Shop by Maryam Master
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Anahita Rosalind Ghorban-Galaszczuk (yes, that really is her name but you can call her Ana) is discovering that life is absurd. As if dying of cancer at the age of 12.5 isn't bad enough, she still has to endure daily insults from her nemesis, Alyssa (Queen Mean) Anderson. Ana's on a wild rollercoaster o ...Show more
Conrad Cooper's Last Stand by Leonie Agnew
$20.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Set in 1978 against the Bastion Point occupation, Conrad Cooper's Last Stand is junior fiction full of humour but with a powerful core. Award-winning author Leonie Agnew has created a surprising, brave and totally engaging novel for young readers. Dear Tane, I've never prayed to a god, so hope this is o ...Show more
My Nest of Silence by Matt Faulkner (Illustrator)
$20.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Told in a brilliant blend of prose and graphic novel, this "magnificent, essential" (Booklist, starred review) middle grade story about a Japanese American family during World War II is written and illustrated by Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature winner Matt Faulkner. Manzanar is nothing like ...Show more
Sally Jones and the False Rose (#2 The Legend of Sally Jones) by Jakob Wegelius
$22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Sally Jones returns in the thrilling sequel to The Murderer's Ape! With gorgeously detailed black-and-white illustrations throughout. When Sally Jones and The Chief discover a curious rose-shaped necklace hidden onboard their beloved Hudson Queen, it's the start of another perilous adventure for the se ...Show more
Nightshade Revenge (#13 Alex Rider) by Anthony Horowitz
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Alex Rider
The world’s bestselling teenage spy takes on a new and daring mission. This much-awaited new book in the bestselling Alex Rider series continues Alex’s fight against the deadly assassins encountered in the last book, Nightshade. Alex still has unfinished business with this sinister group made up o ...Show more
The Explorer: WINNER OF THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD by Katherine Rundell
$20.99 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 t ...Show more