Category: Pick A Path Stories | Series: You Say Which Way | Reading Level: 8-12
Search for pirate treasure. Live in a magic house. Go on safari. Travel back in time. An interactive collection where YOU say which way the story goes. This volume contains four books: Pirate Island, In the Magician's House, Lost in Lion Country, Once Upon an Island. These stories depend on YOU. At th ...Show more
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. ...Show more
Category: Gift Books
Annual 2 contains all-new material for 9- to- 13-year-olds. The result is a highly original, contemporary take on the much-loved annuals of the past - all in one beautiful package. Alongside familiar names publishing for children - Gavin Mouldey, Sarah Johnson, Ben Galbraith, Barry Faville, Giselle Cla ...Show more
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
A vengeful dragon. A magician lurking in the shadows. A ragtag team fighting to stop the planet from plunging into turmoil. When fourteen-year-old Ivy falls through a portal into Ghost Orchid, she is scared and alone. Then, she meets a group of teen rebels fighting to save the icy waste ...Show more
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Twelve-year-old George Grimes is afraid of growing up. If becoming a teenager means he has to stop believing in Grandad's tall tales about Mythika - a magical place where artists have special powers - then he wants to stay twelve forever. On the eve of George's thirteenth birthday, a man with a forked ...Show more
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
What happens when you sleep with a crocodile tooth under your pillow, or the mess under your bed turns into something terrifying? How can a football be a passport, and what does it mean when the contraption in the basement starts to hum and glow? You can be sure the answers will never be boring and almo ...Show more
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
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
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
After 50 years MI5 are finally returning Mal Dixon's homework assignment; to keep a record of the Apollo 11 mission to land a man on the Moon. I remember signing the Official Secrets Act and Agent Woodstock saying, had we been allowed to tell anyone about what had happened that week, my grandparents and ...Show more
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Trespassers Club was just supposed to be a game, but sometimes going places you shouldn’t has consequences … Laura has always spent her free time playing Trespassers Club with her sister, Katy. But Katy just turned thirteen and isn’t interested in playing games anymore. When their f ...Show more
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Elastic Island
Elastic Island Adventures: Rainbow Cove is the third in an exciting series of books for children aged 8 – 12 years, an action-adventure set in the South Pacific!
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
A story in the Compassionate Courtesan Universe.Some anthropologists once did a comprehensive survey of what human cultures considered beautiful. There was one consistent: trait-symmetry. Every human culture in existence said that the person with symmetric physical features was the beautiful one. I'm th ...Show more
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
An enchanting and empowering standalone story from the author of The Princess and the Foal. Twelve-year-old Hilly has landed her dream job, riding on the set of Brunhilda, an epic film based on the fearless warrior of Icelandic legend. Norse fire ritual tells that on mid-summer's day, animals and humans ...Show more
