Stop the Tour! (My New Zealand Story) by Bill Nagelkerke
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
The Springbok Tour held in New Zealand over 3 months in 1981 remains one of the most divisive periods in New Zealandâs recent history. Through his (fictional) diary entries, we learn about 13-year-old Martin Daly's experiences during the tour and his thoughts and feelings about the escalating conflict. ...Show more
Those Snake Island Kids (#1 Those Kids) by Jon Tucker
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
An uplifting tale of youthful naivety, friendship, calamity and triumph. When Jake persuades his family to embark on a sailing-camping holiday on a Tasmanian island, he is mostly interested in pirate fantasies and his home-built Optimist sailing dinghy. But he does not plan on events which are to leave ...Show more
Lizard's Tale by Weng Wai Chan
21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
It's Singapore in 1940, war is just around the corner-but twelve-year-old Lizard doesn't know that. He lives in Chinatown above a tailor's shop, surviving on his wits and hustling for odd jobs. When he steals a small teak box containing a Japanese code book from a Raffles Hotel suite, he finds himself i ...Show more
Below by David Hill
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
A nerve-wracking underground adventure from a master storyteller . . . Caught in a tunnel collapse, Liam and Imogen have to use all their wits to survive in this gripping novel for readers eight years and up. When you stood deep inside the tunnel, you could hear the mountain groaning overhead. That's ...Show more
The Real Thing by Brian Falkner
19.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Only three people in the entire world know the secret formula for Coca-Cola. So, when all three are kidnapped, the giant American corporation is in deep trouble. But the kidnappers didn't count on the extraordinary abilities of Fizzer Boyd from Glenfield High. Soon Fizzer and his friend Tupai White are ...Show more
#Tumeke! by Michael Petherick
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Plans for the Newtoun community’s Waitangi Day celebrations are well under way. The Tape Orchestra’s practising like mad. Monty and Mr Steve Vibrant are designing a poster. Rishi’s trying to land Lil Yacht Shifty … and Ms Ropata’s juggling it all because everyone wants in. There’ll be curry and cake, ka ...Show more
The Halfmen of O (#1 The O Trilogy) by Maurice Gee
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: O Trilogy
'Nick had seen the birthmark on Susan's wrist. It had two parts. Each was shaped like a tear drop, curved like a moon. One was bright red and the other golden brown.' Susan had always been a bit odd and never really got on with her cousin Nick, but the mark on her wrist draws them together in a frighten ...Show more
The Loblolly Boy and the Sorcerer (#2) by James Norcliffe
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: The Loblolly Boy
The Loblolly boy wants his old life back and his plight is all the more poignant for his searching. In this stunning junior fiction fantasy sequel to The Loblolly Boy, Michael convinces the unhappy boy at the Great Hall to Exchange with him once again, and Michael begins a magical journey home. Complica ...Show more
The Ghosts of Tarawera (Spooky Adventures #2) by Sue Copsey
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Spooky Adventures
On holiday near Rotorua, Joe and Eddie are fascinated by the area's bubbling mud pools and boiling geysers. Local volcanologist Rocky tells them about the Pink and White Terraces that existed on the lake where they're staying, and how they were destroyed in the cataclysmic 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawer ...Show more