Summer Reading Guide 2023/2024
These titles have been chosen by us as some of our favourite for the 2023/2024 Summer. They appear on our Summer Reading Guide.
Here Upon the Tide by Blair McMillan
$27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Teen Fiction
When Amir’s city in Syria is bombed as civil war erupts, his father makes a fateful decision. Amir soon finds himself on a perilous journey by land and sea, with little hope of reaching his destination. Milly is still reeling from the aftermath of earthquakes in her home city of Christchurch. Her only r ...Show more
Heartstopper Volume 5 by Alice Oseman
$27.99 NZD
Category: Graphic Books (Teen) | Series: Heartstopper Ser.
Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the much-loved Heartstopper series. Nick and Charlie are very much in love. They've finally said those three little words, an ...Show more
RockyBottoms (Big Little Blue, Book #2) by Raymond McGrath
$18.99 NZD
Category: Graphic (Junior)
There are three simply illustrated, playful stories in this graphic novel-style volume, each one featuring two friends, Big Blue and Little Blue. Each story is connected by a wellbeing theme, and is designed to offer children coping strategies for navigating friendships, understanding emotional response ...Show more
Tonight I Burn by Katharine J. Adams
$27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Teen Fiction
Thorns, Tides, Embers, Storms, and Ores. All five covens are bound in servitude to the tyrant High Warden of Halstett.Penny Albright is a daughter of the thorn coven, forced to patrol the veil between the realms of Life and Death, keeping it safe and whole. Each night, one thorn witch - and only one - m ...Show more
At the Bach by Joy Cowley
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
An evocative and beautiful bedtime book that distils the essence of summer at the bach; creaky old bed, sandy feet, waves hush-hushing and a shell under the pillow.This simple poem by internationally renowned Joy Cowley transports the reader instantly to a childhood summer.Summer holidays by the sea hav ...Show more
Into the Lockjaws (#2 Faelan the Wolf) by Juliette Maclver
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Faelan the Wolf
In this follow-on to Faelan the Wolf: Odd Wolf Out, Faelan’s pack is under threat from the white wolf, Varg Akafar. The Pack Leader is dying, and his successor, weaselly Weylin, is not a fan of odd-ball Faelan and his unwolflike ways. Bardolph’s daughter Tala and Faelan must go and meet Varg (who is in ...Show more
Reo Pēpi Bilingual Colouring Book
$19.99 NZD
Category: Drawing and Colouring
Beautiful bilingual colouring book starring creatures of Aotearoa. Includes over 30 stickers! Featuring native birds, sea creatures, insects and plants, this is a must-have for every Kiwi child. It also teaches te reo and introduces key learning concepts such as opposites and feelings. From the autho ...Show more
The Deadlands: Trapped by Skye Melki-Wegner
$18.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy, Magic and Science Fiction
Dinosaurs fight for freedom and survival in book two of this action-packed middle-grade series. Battle rages on between the two surviving dinosaur kingdoms. Eleri and his fellow outcasts are searching for evidence to prove that the carnivores have manipulated the herbivore kingdoms into war, so they can ...Show more
All the Way Down by Stewart Foster
$21.00 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A life-affirming story about friendship, adventure and self-belief, from the award-winning author of The Bubble Boy. Perfect for fans of Louis Sachar's Holes and Elle McNicoll's A Kind of Spark.When three eleven-year-old 'problem children' are thrown together at summer camp, they're challenged to build ...Show more
To the Ice by Thomas Tidholm
$27.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
An epic story set in a polar wilderness that blurs realism and imagination—fully illustrated for newly independent readers.Ida, Max and Jack go to the creek one winter’s day. They play on an ice floe then find themselves floating away—all the way to the polar ice, with just a box, a branch and some sand ...Show more
Dazzlehands [Ringakoreko Ringakōreko English edition] by Sacha Cotter; Josh Morgan
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
The cow says 'moo' the chicken says 'cluck' and the pig says ... 'Dazzlehands!' As hard as the farmer tries, pig won't go 'oink'. Instead, pig gets all the animals moving to: 'Train hands, rain hands, fly-it-like-a-plane hands. Bursting with the razzle, gotta liberate these DAZZLEHANDS!'
If I Was a Horse by Sophie Blackall
$29.99 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
In her funniest book yet, two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall captures the astonishing spectacle of a child imagining life as a horse. And with a book jacket adorned with glitter, this romp really sparkles! If I was a horse, I would gallop all day. I could go anywhere I want . . . If you were a ...Show more