Take Me to Your Leader by Leonie Agnew
22.00 NZD
Category: 9 - 12 years
Can Lucas pull off staging an alien encounter and save his tiny country school from closure? A madcap novel by an award-winning author for readers 8 years and older. Eleven-year-old Lucas has got a new worry to add to his long, long list - his rural school is on the Ministry of Education's list for ...Show more
Nine Girls by Stacy Gregg
22.00 NZD
Category: 9 - 12 years | Reading Level: near fine
Nine Girls is a page-turning adventure from Stacy Gregg, one of Aotearoa's most internationally successful and locally awarded writers.An epic story woven with suspense by Pony Club Secrets and The Princess and the Foal author Stacy Gregg.They dug a hole and they put the box filled with gold inside it.T ...Show more
Jack's Island by Norman Jorgensen
23.00 NZD
Category: 9 - 12 years
When war comes to Australia, Jack's family moves to Rottnest Island while his father helps the military build an airfield. Jack is left to explore his new home with his best friend Banjo ... and the pair have a knack for getting in trouble. Trouble that's exacerbated when their new classmate Dafty seeks ...Show more
Countdown to Yesterday by Shirley Marr
21.00 NZD
Category: 9 - 12 years
From the incredible mind of multi-award-winning Australian children's author Shirley Marr comes a beautiful story for young readers about memories, family, friendship, The Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book, David Bowie and time travel! James wishes he could go back in time. Back t ...Show more
Time Travelling with a Tortoise by Ross Welford
20.00 NZD
Category: 9 - 12 years
Exciting, funny, heartwarming, and mind-bendingly clever, Time Travelling with a Tortoise is the extraordinary, adventure-packed sequel to Ross Welford’s beloved, bestselling debut, Time Travelling with a Hamster. Al Chaudhury travelled back in time to save his father’s life. And it worked – Al’s dad is ...Show more
The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo
20.00 NZD
Category: 9 - 12 years
A sweeping story of danger, adventure and the high seas. From the nation's favourite storyteller, Michael Morpurgo. "We all knew what was going to happen. We'd seen it before. A ship about to founder staggers before she falls. A huge wave broke over her stern and she did not come upright again." Life ...Show more
The Great Gallipoli Escape by Jackie French
20.00 NZD
Category: 9 - 12 years
Renowned for her historical fiction titles, Jackie French now tells the story of the brilliant and famous evacuation of Gallipoli. Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915 they know that that there is mor ...Show more
Casander Darkbloom and the Threads of Power by P. A. Staff
23.00 NZD
Category: 9 - 12 years
The first in an extraordinary middle-grade fantasy series that takes the traditional "chosen one" narrative and flips it on its head. Think Nevermoor and The School for Good and Evil, but with a thrilling twist! A boy with no memory. A world searching for a hero. Casander Darkbloom has no memory, live ...Show more
Map of Flames (the Forgotten Five, Book 1) by Lisa McMann
21.00 NZD
Category: 9 - 12 years | Series: The\Forgotten Five Ser.
X-Men meets Spy Kids in this instant New York Times bestseller! Here's the first book in a new middle-grade fantasy/adventure series from the author of The Unwanteds.Fifteen years ago, eight supernatural criminals fled Estero City to make a new life in an isolated tropical hideout. Over time, seven of t ...Show more
Guardians of Magic (#1 Cloud Horse Chronicles) by Chris Riddell
20.00 NZD
Category: 9 - 12 years | Series: The\Cloud Horse Chronicles Ser.
Guardians of Magic is a brilliant magical adventure from the Costa Award-winning creator of Goth Girl, Chris Riddell. This fantastic quest is fully illustrated by Chris in black and white throughout. Meet the Guardians of Magic: Zam, Phoebe and Bathsheba, three children who don't yet know how powerful t ...Show more
Tiggy Thistle and the Lost Guardians (#2 Cloud Horse Chronicles) by Chris Riddell
20.00 NZD
Category: 9 - 12 years | Series: The\Cloud Horse Chronicles Ser.
Tiggy Thistle and the Lost Guardians is the second and final title in The Cloud Horse Chronicles duology, the exciting magical adventure from the Costa Award-winning creator of Goth Girl and 2015-2017 UK Children's Laureate Chris Riddell. With gorgeous illustrations throughout. The Guardians of Magic di ...Show more
The Letter with the Golden Stamp by Onjali Q. Rauf
20.00 NZD
Category: 9 - 12 years
'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