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Diary of a Wimpy Kid (16) Big Shot Book Review Cover

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (16) Big Shot

Greg is terrible at sports. He’s known this for a long time, no matter how much his mum has told .....

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T is for Tuatara Book Review Cover

T is for Tuatara – Amazing Animals from A to Z

Have you ever heard of a Gharial? What about a Zebu? These are just two of the strange animals in .....

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Race Cars Book Review Cover

Race Cars – A children’s book about white privilege

There is Chase who is a black race car. There is Ace who is a white race car. They have .....

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Grandpa's Great Escape Book Review Cover

Grandpa’s Great Escape

Jack’s favourite person in the world is his Grandpa. He loves spending hours listening to Grandpa’s exciting World War II .....

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Bad Panda Book Review Cover

Bad Panda

Lin is sick of being nice! She has always been a good Panda at the Panda Sanctuary where she was .....

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The Super Weirdos Book Review Cover

The Super Weirdos (1) and the Battle of Bash

Meet Mac from the planet Tenalp, a gazillion miles away from Earth. He now lives on our planet because something .....

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The Forever Horse Book Review Cover

The Forever Horse

At only 5, Maisie hadn’t heard the word prodigy before. But that’s what her dad called her – an art .....

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This is NOT a Book Book Review Cover

This is NOT a Book!

If you turn the first few pages you will meet someone who will tell you that you are NOT holding .....

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Sala's Surprise Book Review Cover

Kuso’s Clean / Sala’s Surprise

Two Bilingual stories for young children in one book! Begin with Sala’s Surprise where Sala wakes in the morning and .....

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Moose the Pilot Book Review Cover

Moose The Pilot

Moose lives high in a tree house and is about to share a tale of exciting destinations, adventures and a .....

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How to Make a Pet Monster Book Review Cover

How to make a Pet Monster (1) Hodgepodge

Artie has moved into a new house with his mum, stepdad and stepsister Willow. The house seems quite spooky to .....

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The Boy who met a whale Book Review Cover

The Boy who met a Whale

Zheng has had many adventures in his young life, now sailing with a captain who took him under his wing. .....

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This is where I stand Book Review Cover

This Is Where I Stand

A soldier stands in all weathers. He’s been there for years and will be there for many more, looking down .....

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I Talk Like a River Book Review Cover

I Talk Like a River

A young boy wakes with sounds and sights around him. He knows the words for them but his mouth and .....

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Funny Kid (6) Funny Kid Kicks Butt Book Review Cover

Funny Kid (6) Funny Kid Kicks Butt

Max is a HUGE fan of the comic superhero Captain Kickbutt. Everyone is super excited about a Captain Kickbutt movie .....

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Funny Kid (11) Catastrophe Book Review Cover

Funny Kid (11) Catastrophe

Eleven year old Max is well known for being a Funny Kid. But now he has a different persona in .....

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Showtym Adventures (8) Syd, the muster pony Book Review Cover

Showtym Adventures (8) Syd, The Muster Pony

The Wilson family is on the hunt for new ponies again. Vicki (the eldest), is also on the lookout for .....

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The Nerd Herd Book Review Cover

The Nerd Herd (1)

Straight into the action, young Baarnubus (who prefers Barny, thank you) is bailed up against the barn wall by Ringo, .....

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Tree Beings Book Review Cover

Tree Beings

Trees are universal – growing everywhere in the world. Some we enjoy as shade, some to hold our tree hut .....

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The Standing Strong House

Many years ago, before any pakeha had stepped onto Aotearoa shores, there lived a woman called Kahurangi. She was a .....

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Wolf Girl (3) The Secret Cave

Soldiers are right behind Wolf Girl and her pack. Now there are new members to their furry family, the stakes .....

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Wolf Girl 4 Book Review Cover

Wolf Girl (4) The Traitor

Wolf Girl’s search for her human family continues… Years spent with her dog family allows Gwen to understand their expressions .....

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Peter and the Tree Children Book Review Cover

Peter and the Tree Children

Piet the squirrel is feeling lonely. He has no family and seeks out company when he sees a man sitting .....

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Wolf Girl 5 Book Review Cover

Wolf Girl (5) Across The Sea

Gwen, Rupert and her pack are hungry and cold, but relieved to all have escaped the Reptile Park. With her .....

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Wolf Girl 7 Crash Course Book Review Cover

Wolf Girl (7) Crash Course

After saving hundred’s of animals, and now in charge of a train, Gwen appreciates the much faster way to travel. .....

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Wolf Girl 8 Welcome to Paradise Book Review Cover

Wolf Girl (8) Welcome to Paradise

Gwen is fleeing the Hornet soldiers that have been sent to capture her and all of her doggy crew. There .....

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Code Name Bananas Book Review Cover

Code Name Bananas

At only 11 years old, Eric is a WWII orphan. His dad was lost as he evacuated from Dunkirk, and .....

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The Boy Who Dreamed of Dragons Book Review Cover

The Boy who Dreamed of Dragons (4)

Tomas and his friends, Kat, Kai, Liam and Ted, (dubbed the superhero squad) are now experts with their dragons. Fully .....

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Naughty Dragons Book Review Cover

Naughty Dragons (1) Make Trouble

Siblings Jack and Ava Ward can’t wait for their dragons to arrive. The Dragons at Home Project Dragon Mover drives .....

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Amazing Aotearoa Activity Book Book Review Cover

Amazing Aotearoa Activity Book

Amazing –  this IS! The spectacular Aotearoa by Gavin Bishop won a multitude of awards across 2017 – 2018, and .....

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