Tonight is a big deal for Eleonore, or Leo which she prefers to be called. It’s her 111th birthday and it’s the night for her Hunt for the Waxing Moon. ...
Kester Jaynes misses his old life, even if he can barely remember what it was like before the virus. He hasn’t seen his dad for six years, as he has ...
Kester finally feels safe after getting most of his animals to safety and surviving the human cullers’ constant attacks. He has fulfilled his promise and his dad has manufactured medicine ...
Recovering after his fight with the vicious Wilding/Leader of the Dark Wild, Kester has one thing on his mind – finding the brave mouse that has the Iris – the ...
Caleb is sick and tired of the never ending farm work and day after day drudgery on their family farm. His younger twin brothers are supposed to help, but do ...
Rachel is finally away from the family farm. At only 12 she had longed for more than the daily drudgery of cooking and cleaning and helping out on the farm ...
Noah has been on the island for three years. Brought with his twin Tobias, brother Caleb and sister Rachael from their family farm in the middle-of-nowhere New Zealand, they all ...
Worm by nickname and worm by nature – wanting to be out of sight, watching, and listening – Robbie Tarnauer has been labelled shy by his mother. Apparently when he ...
Once there was a goat called Answelica. She lived in a monastery with many monks who feared her temper, horns and teeth. One of these monks named Brother Edik, finds ...
A free house for a year. A new start in a new city. No more avoiding all of those who knew how she spiralled into oblivion on her bedroom floor ...
Sasha hasn’t spoken. Not since he’s been at the hospital. No one knows why, not even Sasha, but he does know he needs certain things. He needs them so badly ...
Yadriel just wants to be accepted by his family for who he is. His mum was incredibly supportive, quickly understanding him when he came out as a trans gay boy. ...
Nissa loves the NZ bush and considering she isn’t quite 13, has spent a lot of time in it. Her dad and brother love to hunt deer, both proud of the ...
Batpig – Space Farce Gary Yorkshire loves great-tasting sandwiches, mud baths, video games and hanging out with his friends, Brooklyn the Bat and Carl the Fish. One day after playing ...
The Class that Wouldn’t End Maths class is no fun for Gary Pig or Carl Fishington. Only their friend Brooklyn Bat seems to relish the thought of a whole hour ...
Lily and Lucy live with their Grandad. At only six and nine and three quarters old, they are very worried when they discover their fun, loving, clever inventor Grandad, missing! ...
Larry wasn’t left behind on purpose, but somehow he’d been dropped at the zoo. The giraffe keeper picked him up and put him in his own special place just inside ...
Nan is a haka freak. No, not the haka the All Blacks perform before a game of rugby. Nan is a HUGE kapa haka fan. In fact she used to ...
Manu is in awe when his Poppa shows him a medal. He wants to know what it is, and why he has it? Especially when Poppa tells him a King ...
What do you get when you cross Kiwiana with a Pirate – this book, The Rhyming Pirate! This Pirate loves playing with words, making everything rhyme if he can. He’s ...
ATUA: Māori Gods and Heroes, begins with nothing. Then comes darkness, a pale smudge of light and then Ranginui e tū nei (a great sky father) unfurls. Below him Papatūānuku ...
The Sun is just waking up, its rays of light stretching across the sky. A lone Pīhoihoi balances on a thistle flower marveling at the sky’s colours. What Colour is ...
A young girl begins to play her guitar. Like those who spoke out in the past against injustices, she is looking to make a better world. Beginning small, by tidying ...
This sturdy hardback is a wonderful non-fiction collection of nearly 50 Māori who have achieved astounding things around the world. Determination, support from whānau, hard work, education, courage and dedication ...
George’s dad is the manager of a large English estate. Both George and Dad like the owner (Lady Jane) and her daughter Coco, even considering them friends. When Lady Jane ...
Twelve wields her twin war axes as if they are part of her. Her training while at a Hunting Lodge has honed her skills. She will need them to carry ...
Sophia lives with her parents in the town called Lille, ruled over by a king. This is no king of the people. He is a tyrant, inflicting harsh rules on ...
‘This isn’t fair!’ 14 year old Ana Dakkar has been screaming this internally ever since her parents died two years before. Now she has lost even more loved ones and ...
Do you believe in ghosts? A little girl invites you into her home. It is a large 18th century house and she begins to show you around, wondering out loud ...
Greg is terrible at sports. He’s known this for a long time, no matter how much his mum has told him it’s about trying and trying again, until he finds ...