Who's Who and What's Where in the Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
$20.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction (Ages 8-12)
Explore the vast, surprising and silly world of the Treehouse with your expert tour guides, Andy and Terry. There are so many things to know. And so many things you didn't know you didn't know! This guide to the Treehouse is full of trivia, fun facts and behind-the-scenes details about all 169 levels, a ...Show more
The Grimmelings by Rachael King
$25.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction (Ages 8-12)
The same evening Josh Underhill went missing, the black horse appeared on the hill above the house. Thirteen-year-old Ella knows that words are powerful. So she should have known better than to utter a wish and a curse on the same day, even in jest. When the boy she has cursed goes missing, in the same ...Show more
Runt by Craig Silvey
$28.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction (Ages 8-12)
A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author of Jasper Jones and Honeybee. 'You don't have to carry the weight of the world in your tool belt.' Annie Shearer lives in the country town of Upson Downs with her best friend, an adopted stray dog called R ...Show more
Brown Bird by Jane Arthur
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Children's Fiction
Sometimes it can take one special friend to show you what you’re capable of, even if does take you a while to believe it. Eleven-year-old Rebecca tries to make herself invisible so people won’t call her weird. Resigned to spending the holidays by herself in a new neighbourhood while her mum works long h ...Show more
The Swifts: #1 by Beth Lincoln
$21.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction (Ages 8-12) | Series: The\Swifts Ser.
A hilarious mystery adventure perfect for fans of Robin Stevens and Lemony Snicket. On the day they are born, each Swift is brought before the sacred Family Dictionary. They are given a name and a definition, and it is assumed they will grow up to match. Unfortunately, Shenanigan Swift has other ideas. ...Show more
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
$23.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction (Ages 8-12)
It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him. A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the no ...Show more
The Mapmakers' Race (#1) by Eirlys Hunter
$23.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction (Ages 8-12) | Series: The Mapmakers | Reading Level: near fine
Four children temporarily lose their parents just as they are about to begin the race that offers their last chance of escaping poverty. Their task is to map a rail route through an uncharted wilderness. They overcome the many obstacles posed by nature, bears, bees, bats, river crossings, cliff falls, i ...Show more
Lucy Bee & the Secret Gene (#1 Lucy Bee) by Anne Ingram
$20.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction (Ages 8-12) | Series: Lucy Bee
A junior novel about identity, family, school, bullying and friendship. Who is Lucy Bee? She always thought she was Lucy Bennett. Suddenly everything about her world starts changing. Bits of it, important bits, keep flying apart. Are her parents really her parents? Does she really belong in the Bennett ...Show more
Bonjour Lucy Bee (#2 Lucy Bee) by Anne Ingram
$22.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction (Ages 8-12) | Series: Lucy Bee
Lucy and her mother are in France for the summer to visit family. As they arrive they pass refugees, who are not welcome in this little village. Then valuables are stolen and the young refugees are accused. Lucy sides with the refugees - this could be dangerous.
Smile (Clarice Bean) by Lauren Child
$20.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction (Ages 8-12) | Series: Clarice Bean Ser.
Clarice Bean is back with all her trademark humour in this heartwarming story by former Children's Laureate Lauren Child. At the moment I am daydreaming about inventing something exceptionordinarily good that could change the world for the better, because of all the things, it's the better that's neede ...Show more
Nine Girls by Stacy Gregg
$22.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction (Ages 8-12) | Reading Level: near fine
Nine Girls is a page-turning adventure from Stacy Gregg, one of Aotearoa's most internationally successful and locally awarded writers.An epic story woven with suspense by Pony Club Secrets and The Princess and the Foal author Stacy Gregg.They dug a hole and they put the box filled with gold inside it.T ...Show more
Take Me to Your Leader by Leonie Agnew
$22.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction (Ages 8-12)
Can Lucas pull off staging an alien encounter and save his tiny country school from closure? A madcap novel by an award-winning author for readers 8 years and older. Eleven-year-old Lucas has got a new worry to add to his long, long list - his rural school is on the Ministry of Education's list for ...Show more