Thornhill is an eerie tale told in two ways: One story is set in 1982 and told in text by a girl called Mary Baines. She lives in Thornhill with ...
From before the age of dinosaurs to present day, this large scale sumptuous book tells the story of our country: – Our Discoverers, our Names, Maori, Pakeha, Treaty, Wars, Transport, ...
Evie has had a lot on her plate. Her father has passed away, her OCD is taking over, and the Kaikoura earthquake has left her mum being helicoptered to Christchurch. They ...
Arthur lives a troubled life in an Orphanage called ‘The Home for Wayward and Misbegotten Creatures.’ These creatures are groundlings (mixed-up animals) like Arthur (a foxling who walks on two ...
The pictures and antics of these characters had me laughing out loud. Mission Unpluckable – I enjoyed this episode of this series even more than the 1st. Wolf is still ...
Jack, Tim, Ella, Harry, Gemma, Louie, Lucy and Terri live on Tui Street. Here are 7 separate tales of their daily lives of school, family and friends, but all with ...
Fred, Con, Lila and her 5 yr old brother Max are all in a small plane together when the pilot has a heart attack and dies. They crash into the ...
This book is in effect written backwards. I loved the way this story was structured with the main character Jule living a charmed life of luxury, and then the further ...
Rebecca hates her new school and new home far away from her friends in another city. She’s lonely and lost. When invited to a party, she goes to try and ...
A boy gets up one morning from the floor of his room. His bed was burnt for firewood the night before, just to keep him and his mum warm. The ...
Peony lives in a world where bees no longer exist and all pollinating and pest control is done by hand in orchards. She lives with her grandpa and older sister ...
Crow was found as a tiny baby in a boat set adrift among a group of islands. She was found and raised by a man she calls Osh. He is ...
Jimmy is at it again. Doing stuff he shouldn’t, causing chaos and mayhem and not understanding what the fuss is all about. He’s found a dinosaur print. Any decent explorer ...
Just when Claude and Syd are planning to celebrate their latest mission, news arrives that their comrades in the White Paw Organisation (Dog Spies for CAT) have been captured by ...
Chase Cooper is glad his cousin Zoe goes to his new school, otherwise he wouldn’t know anyone. Zoe is a good cousin and friend, helping Chase settle in the first ...
Matt Turner has gone to stay with his grandparents on their dairy farm. His mum is on bed rest in hospital for her baby and his dad is away on ...
This collection would make a great read-a-loud for 9-12’s. There is a medieval tale, a diary of a dog, a Fairy Demolition Contractor and a boy trolling the internet, not ...
Fliss lives in a severed land – split by an invisible wall made by an ancient people to save their lands from a group of tyranical families wanting land, slaves ...
Too many secrets, buried for too long . . . Becs is a sassy 12-year-old drama queen who strikes a bargain with her mother. She’ll spend a few months away ...
This novel is entirely made up of military type transcripts of interviews, emails, surveillance footage summaries between all of the characters including AIDAN (The AI – Artificial Intelligence that runs ...
Lennie is grieving the loss of her vibrant, loving, carefree, older sister Bailey. When Lennie returns to school, trying to avoid all the sympathetic stares, she returns to band practice ...
Timmy is in disguise at the start of this book. His mum has banned him from his detective business – shut it down – dead. What’s even worse is his ...
Michael is Aussie-born and bred and proud of his parents and their stand against ‘boat people’ invading Australia. His dad is trying to grow his organisation called Aussie Values, keen ...
Charlie wants a paper round. But never in a million years can he imagine what he and his best friend Hils (Hilary) would have to do to get one. When ...
The refugee camp is all that Subhi has ever known. Born there 9 years before, he has lived in tents with his Mum and sister Queeny ever since. He has ...
A spiteful, mean, girl called Betty. A caring, thoughtful, smart girl called Annabelle. A man suffering the after effects of a war where he believed he’d done terrible things. These ...