Orion Lost Book Review Cover

Beth McKay is excited to be a passenger aboard the transport star ship Orion. They are heading to a far flung space colony called EOS5, to colonise and make it ...


Jacob has won the trip of a lifetime. Not only will he be leaving his small town in the UK to travel to Hollywood – all expenses paid plus spending ...


Across the Risen Sea Book Review Cover

The world has changed. Oceans have risen, high waves gobbling up land. The sun is merciless, and storms form quickly. More than a decade has passed since Cyclone Summer – ...


Mabel might be small, but she has BIG plans. She has a list of things she wants to do, but her family and others around her scoff and tell her ...


Let it Go Book Review Cover

This sumptuously illustrated picture book explores many feelings we may have at different times, for different reasons. Fear, Shame, Anger, and Sadness are feelings that visit four children in this ...


A girl wakes on a bus. She has no idea who she is, or who the other people on the bus are. Among them is a another girl who does ...


Katipo Joe (1) Blitzkrieg Book Review Cover

It’s 1938. Joseph St George is half kiwi, half English and living in Germany. Life has been good with his diplomat parents, his new Alsatian puppy, friends and his fascination ...


Jackson can’t believe his eyes. Is it? Is it really? His gaze never leaves the giant cat on the surfboard, holding an umbrella. No-one else sitting on the beach sees ...


Liberty Johansen adores the night sky. She has spent so much time staring up at the stars, she can draw precise star maps from memory. Liberty has always wanted people ...


Together Things Book Review Cover

A young girl misses the dad she knew. He would go adventuring with her, climbing, swimming, flying high on a swing. Together their imaginations ran wild. But now he is ...


A collie dog named Friday creeps through the night with her master. They have 1000 sheep in their sights, and they are planning to steal them! This sophisticated picture book ...


Coriolanus Snow is in his late teens as we venture back into Capitol. He lives with his grandmother and cousin Tigress who works to support them all in a frugal ...


Elsie loves to sit and fish off the Lyttleton jetty, her feet dangling high above the tide. Mr James is fishing too, with one eye on his line and one ...


Along with his litter, Bob was left to fend for himself from very young. He survived on scraps he could find, eventually discovering the Exit 8 Big Top Mall & ...


All Kinds of Beliefs Book Review Cover

There are many different kinds of beliefs in the world. Some people are Buddhists. Some people have a religion to be guided by. There are Muslims with the religion of ...


This book is beautiful from the textured front cover, through each rhyming page, with full colour illustrations, (often double-page spreads), to the final pages of galaxies and gardens. Beginning with ...


Mizuki can see something is wrong. Her grandfather (Ichiro), now living in Mizuki’s home after his cherished wife passed away, is nothing like the grandfather of her childhood. He used ...


The Grand Opening Book Review Cover

Dragon Defenders Paddy and Flynn miss their island, their dragons and their old life. Now living with their grandparents in the city, feels claustrophobic, lost and angry. Especially at Briar ...


The Suitcase Book Review Cover

One day, a strange animal arrived. All he has with him is a suitcase. The other animals stare, but don’t ask his name. They ask what is in the suitcase. ...


It’s a cold, frosty night when five children aged twelvish, flee an orphanage – the only home they’ve ever known. They are not only fleeing a wicked woman called Matron Gassbeek, ...


Amber Prescott is just one of six teens to be invited to have dinner with the Mayor after winning a 20K education scholarship. All six arrive at the venue, surprised ...


Claudia is excited to be at Camp Jupiter after learning only 2 months before that she is a descendant of a Roman God. This god was Mercury – messenger to ...


Shannon Molloy is Fourteen, attends an all-boys, rugby-mad Catholic High School, and is gay. He and his family live in a small town where you can’t hide if you’re different. ...


Love Frankie Book Review Cover

Frankie isn’t like her big sister. She hates pink, sparkly, makeup and anything girly. She’s much happier in her t-shirt, jeans and Docs. At nearly 14, she’s aware how other ...


Winifred (or Fred or Freddo or Winnie) enjoys school, especially her teacher Mr Khouri and the way he explains things to her class. Geography is a particular favourite with its ...


A chance of a lifetime has just appeared for 13 yr old orphan Almanac. He has received an invitation from a grand manor to be an apprentice second footman. Leaving ...


Mr Wolf is tired of having a bad reputation, and he’s determined to prove that he and his pals, Mr Snake, Mr Piranha and Mr Shark are the Good Guys! ...