Koro's Star by Claire Aramakutu
22.00 NZD
Category: 9 - 12 years
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
Baby-Sitters' Summer Vacation (The Baby-Sitters Club: Super Special #2) by Ann Martin
18.00 NZD
Category: 9 - 12 years
This summer, the Baby-sitters and a bunch of the kids they sit for are going to camp. With the girls as Counselors-in-Training, it’ll be just like baby-sitting—in the woods! Anything can happen at camp. Dawn gets lost in the wilderness. Stacey spends two weeks with poison ivy ... and Claudia falls in LU ...Show more
The Peak (Spy Academy #1) by Jack Heath
21.00 NZD
Category: 9 - 12 years
After thwarting a robbery, Nolan Hawker is invited to the world’s most dangerous school. At The Peak, he learns to crack codes, fly planes and deceive enemies so he can someday infiltrate the deadly anarchist group known as Swarm. But someone at the Peak secretly works for Swarm, and they have a plan—th ...Show more
Keeper of the Lost Cities (#1) by Shannon Messenger
20.00 NZD
Category: 9 - 12 years | Series: Keeper of the Lost Cities
In this riveting series opener, a telepathic girl must figure out why she is the key to her brand-new world before the wrong person finds the answer first. Twelve-year-old Sophie has never quite fitted into her life. She's skipped multiple grades and doesn't really connect with the older kids at school, ...Show more
Take Me to Your Leader by Leonie Agnew
22.00 NZD
Category: 9 - 12 years
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 closure. What's his mum going to do if he and his sister have to start travelling to a school an hour or two away? She can't drive them; she certainly can't afford boardi ...Show more
Nine Girls by Stacy Gregg
22.00 NZD
Category: 9 - 12 years | Reading Level: middle fiction
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
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
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