The Dragon Defenders (#1) by James Russell
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: The Dragon Defenders
The wild and wonderful island home of Flynn and Paddy holds an incredible secret: dragons live there! When evil boss The Pitbull finds out, he sends his men to kill a dragon, and to bring him back the body. He also wants a dragon's egg, so he can hatch it in his private zoo. Flynn and Paddy's world is a ...Show more
Skinny Dip: Poetry by Susan Paris & Kate De Goldi
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
A poetry anthology from the makers of the famous Annuals. A new school year: nits, crushes, maths lessons, and rainy-day lunchtimes. But what happens when you send a bunch of poets to school? They loiter in corners and see between the lines. They notice the school bus is missing, there are hungry piranh ...Show more
The Pōrangi Boy (Porangi) by Shilo Kino
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
Twelve-year-old Niko lives in Pohe Bay, a small, rural town with a sacred hot spring and a taniwha named Taukere. The government wants to build a prison over the home of the taniwha, and Niko's grandfather is busy protesting. People call him pōrangi, crazy, but when he dies, it's up to Niko to convince ...Show more
Dawn Raid (My New Zealand Story) by Pauline Smith
21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Like many 13-year-old girls, Sofia’s main worries are how to get some groovy go-go boots, and how not to die of embarrassment giving a speech at school! But when her older brother starts talking about protests and overstayers, and how Pacific Islanders are being bullied by the police, a shadow is cast o ...Show more
Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea by T K Roxborogh
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
On a beach clean-up, thirteen-year-old one-legged Charlie and his half-brother, Robbie, find a ponaturi - a mermaid - washed up on a beach. An ancient grudge between the Maori gods Tane and Tangaroa has flared up because a port being built in the bay is degrading the ocean and creatures are fleeing the ...Show more
Cuz by Liz Van Der Laarse
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
River is offered a trip on his uncle's trawler. His cousin Huia is annoying, always going on about Maoritanga. When an accident leaves them stranded on the coast of Fiordland, they must work together to save themselves.
Hine and the Tohunga Portal by Ataria Sharman
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Hine and the Tohunga Portal is a fast-paced fantasy adventure. Hine and her brother, Hōhepa, unwittingly step through a portal into an ancient realm inhabited by the atua Māori (Māori deities), Kea bird tribes, patupaiarehe (fairy people), moa and giant eagles. This world is in turmoil as evil sorcerer ...Show more
The Bone Tiki (#1 Aotearoa) by David Hair
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Series: Aotearoa
What do you do when you meet a tohunga makutu? You run. When reality dissolves and myths and legends come alive? You run faster. And when the dead come to life and blood debts have to be paid, will you have the courage to do what must be done? Matiu Douglas has a bone tiki he took from a tangi. His fath ...Show more
When We Wake (#1) by Karen Healey
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Series: When We Wake
Sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl living in 2027 - she's happiest when playing the guitar, she's falling in love for the first time, and she's joining her friends to protest the wrongs of the world: environmental collapse, social discrimination, and political injustice. But on what sh ...Show more
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
The birth of a daughter - Kahu - breaks the lineage of a Maori tribe. Rejected by her grandfather, Kahu develops the ability to communicate with whales, echoing those of the ancient Whale Rider after whom she was named. This magical and mythical novel tells of the conflict between tradition and heritage ...Show more
In Our Own Back Yard by Anne Kayes
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
It's March 2020 and Liza, her husband and two teenage children are at home in Auckland in level-four lockdown due to Covid-19. Reflections with her family around the dining table inspire Liza to reflect on another challenging time in history nearly forty years before when the South African Springbok rug ...Show more
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