Burning for Revenge Book Review Cover

Feeling abandoned by the NZ Military and hunkered down in Hell, tensions are simmering within the group. Unlike before the war, “Imagination and memory” had become Ellie’s enemy. Not knowing ...


The Girls I've Been Book Review Cover

Nora hasn’t always been Nora. She’s been Rebecca and Samantha, Hayley, Katie and Ashley. But that all stopped when she escaped. Now 17, only her best friend Wes, and big ...


The Girl in Question Book Review Cover

Nora, her best friend Wes, and her girlfriend Iris are putting their final plans in place for a forest hike. Iris is about to begin an internship in a Fire ...


The Tunnel of Dreams Book Review Cover

Twins are special and identical twins even more so. Little do identical twins Arlo and Stefan know they contain powerful magic. When they discover a girl (Alice) hiding out in ...


Black Wolf Book Review Cover

After the disaster of the mission in Germany, Violet is reeling from her loss and even more suspicious of the staff of The Foundation. She and another Vortex teen discuss ...


I Talk Like a River Book Review Cover

A young boy wakes with sounds and sights around him. He knows the words for them but his mouth and tongue won’t cooperate in sounding them. It’s easier to stay ...


The Porangi Boy Book Review Cover

Niko is having a hard time. His older cousin Tu and his mates bully Niko mercilessly. Everyone calls Niko Porangi (crazy) boy, just as they call his Koro (grandfather), porangi. ...


Black Spiral Trilogy (3) Black Spiral Book Review Cover

Violet and Johnno (Phoenix) are safe, along with their unborn child. Staying with her parents is safe but problematic as Johnno doesn’t feel welcome and Violet’s conditioning to hate her ...


Bad Habits Book Review Cover

Alex is a rebel. She’s been to the principal’s office so many times, she’s deemed it one of her favourite places. She climbs in and out of boy’s rooms, dyes ...


Grab Ya Boots Book Review Cover

We’re going A-Hunting! This collection of stories by budding young, keen hunters aren’t just hunting yarns. There are fishing stories, a shooting (with a camera) story. There’s funny stories where ...


Everyone is unique. There is no other human being that is quite like you. Your body, your thoughts, your dreams and your questions are all you. Have you ever asked ...


The Island Book Review Cover

A private Thai island. Six teenagers who’ve known each other their whole lives. Seven days together with their own wilderness guide. Sun, surf, sunsets and golden beaches. Paradise. Now all ...


What the flying fart? thinks Lucy when strange things begin happening around her small town. People are vanishing without a trace! Not to mention her strong belief there are aliens ...


The Thing at Black Hole Lake Book Review Cover

Cripesauce, Crudberries & Fudgesicles! Something strange is STILL happening in the small town of Sticky Pines. Budding cryptozoologist Lucy has uncovered the shocking truth of the Bigfoot like creatures and ...


You Should See Me in a Crown Book Review Cover

Liz Lighty likes to stay out of the spotlight. Especially after a devastating and very public betrayal the first week of High School. She is a top student, knowing that ...


The King's Nightingale Book Review Covew

Elowen lives with her family in a small fishing village called Bodruth. She loves her life on the island with her younger siblings and friends – especially Heath, a young ...


Funny Kid for President Book Review Cover

Max and Hugo’s teacher doesn’t like them very much – but Mr Armstrong doesn’t really like any of his students. When he and Max have an argument about a poo ...


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

Max is a HUGE fan of the comic superhero Captain Kickbutt. Everyone is super excited about a Captain Kickbutt movie being filmed, right in their small town – but no-one ...


Fuuny Kid (8) Belly Flop Book Review Cover

Max definitely does not want to dive into the pool in front of his swimming coach, teacher and rest of his class. He does not see the point in swimming ...


Funny Kid (11) Catastrophe Book Review Cover

Eleven year old Max is well known for being a Funny Kid. But now he has a different persona in mind. First Kid. Like the First Lady in America, Max ...


Monsters of Men Book Review Cover

The Spackle are coming. The Answer have been labelled terrorists for attacking Prentisstown, and President Prentiss is determined to bring them down, but now they have another foe. One Spackle ...


Tiger Daughter Book Review Cover

Wen Zhou and her best friend Henry have a goal in sight. They want to sit an entrance exam to “…an amazing, government-funded selective school,” hoping their lives will change ...


The Nerd Herd Book Review Cover

Straight into the action, young Baarnubus (who prefers Barny, thank you) is bailed up against the barn wall by Ringo, the farm dog. Barny knows Ringo is a bully, and ...