After the Worst Thing Happens by Audrey Vernick
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Left reeling after her thoughtless mistake causes a terrible accident, 12-year-old Army Morand channels her grief to protect someone in need.Army Morand feels like her life has been blown to bits when the worst thing imaginable happens--her beloved dog dies. It was an accident, but it was also Army's fa ...Show more
Pearly and Pig and the Lost City of Mu Savan by Sue Whiting
$17.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Pearly and Pig Ser.
A fast-paced adventure series perfect for readers 8+, from award-winning author Sue Whiting. Pearly Woe is a worrier. But there is no room for worries when you are trying to prove yourself. Yet this is little comfort to Adventurologist-in-training, Pearly Woe, as she motors down the mighty Mekong River ...Show more
Swift and Hawk 2: Undercover by Logan Macx
$21.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Swift and Hawk
The unputdownable second book in the action-packed spy thriller series, where cutting-edge tech meets explosive adventure. An undercover mission. A deadly game of spies. When a secretive robotics company is hacked, teen spies Swift and Hawk discover out-of-control weaponized robots battling to escape in ...Show more
So That Happened . . . But Maybe You Already Knew That by Tami Sussman
$18.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
This hilarious and heart-warming middle-grade debut tackles how to be a good friend (and realise when you’ve been a bad one), leaving childhood behind, and, most importantly, how to get back up when it feels like the world has knocked you down. Natalie (Nutty to her friends) knows turning 12 is a big de ...Show more
Saltwater Boy by Bradley Christmas
$21.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Heartfelt and poignant, this coming of age story explores father-son relationships, against a backdrop of small town rivalries, buried truths, with themes of sustainability, preserving the past and environmental care. When Dad goes to jail, Matthew and his mum move to the coast, so mum – an artist – thi ...Show more
Air by Monica Roe
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
An action-packed, empowering middle grade novel about a girl who has to speak up when her wheelchair motocross dreams get turned upside down. Twelve-year-old Emmie is working to raise money for a tricked-out wheelchair to get serious about WCMX, when a mishap on a poorly designed ramp at school throws ...Show more
The Starlight Stables Gang by Esme Higgs
$21.00 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: The\Starlight Stables Gang Ser.
Fans of Clare Balding and Jacqueline Wilson will love this fun and heartwarming new adventure series for animal-mad 8-12 year olds from superstar equestrian influencer Esme Higgs!Summer has always loved horses but she never thought she'd be able to learn how to ride them - not with money being so tight ...Show more
Catching a Storyfish by Janice N. Harrington
$21.00 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearWinner of the Paterson Prize for Books for Young PeopleArnold Adoff Poetry Honor Award This lyrical middle-grade novel-in-verse celebrates the power of story and of finding one's individual voice. Keet knows the only good thing about moving away from her Alabama hom ...Show more
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
$24.00 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...' This is the story of Cassandra, precocious and charming, who begins a journal detailing her life with her bohemian family in a crumbling old castle. On the cusp of adulthood, Cassandra meets the family's growing challenges of poverty and decay with indefatig ...Show more
Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
$24.00 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Rebel Voices: Disruptive Stories from Trailblazing Women - a new Puffin Classics collection, celebrating International Women's Day 2023 To me, writing was pure pleasure. It thrilled me to be able to escape the horrors of my daily life in such a simple way. When I wrote, I forgot that I was the unwanted ...Show more
A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus
$24.00 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A heartwarming story about three siblings, evacuated from London to live in the countryside, looking for a permanent home--and a new meaning for family. A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year It is 1940 and William, 12, Edmund, 11, and Anna, 9, aren't terribly upset by the death of the not-so-g ...Show more
Fortune's Fool: a Romeo Rollercoaster! by Ross Montgomery
$17.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Shakespeare Shake-Ups
Prepare for Sports Day carnage as the Montagues and Capulets battle for the House Medal in this laugh-out-loud Shakespeare-inspired drama from Ross Montgomery.School athletes Tom and Blake have been best friends forever - but with Sports Day approaching, their friendship is suddenly under threat ... Pre ...Show more