Four You Say Which Way Adventures (Bind Up) by Blair Polly & D. M. Potter

$30.00 NZD

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 e end of each chapter you make a decision that determines which way the story goes. Start by choosing which story to read. Things might get a little trickier after that. Oh ...and watch out for the giant squid! ...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, kapa haka, halal sausages, foam blasters, the Naenae dirtman, and kiss-the-goat — if Constable Rutene can manage to chase one down. In the meantime, Dreadflock’s considering a blog, Briony’s Mum’s being a helicopter, and everyone’s eating a lot of lolly cake. In the boundary-riding tradition of the Annual project, Annual Ink’s latest title #Tumeke! brings you the lives, loves and larrikin spirit of an inner-city neighbourhood. The story is told through texts, Instagram posts, emails, fliers, committee minutes, posters, diary entries, blog posts, chatrooms, school homework, raps and the reliably bonkers community noticeboard. Stuffed with big personalities, surprising friendships and a little intrigue, this multimedia story brims with creativity and comedy, and everyday heartaches, too. Debut novelist Michael Petherick juggles a large cast and multiple story threads with panache, giving us a window on a vivid, warm-hearted community. A narrative — but not quite as we know it — for middle readers and anyone who loves to connect. To look inside, click here. ...Show more

Prince of Ponies by Stacy Gregg

$25.00 NZD

Category: NZ Middle Fiction

War destroyed their worlds, now two young girls and their remarkable horses are fighting once more - this time to win. When twelve-year-old Mira stumbles across a white stallion in a forest in Berlin, she doesn't realise that this horse will take her on an incredible journey. Together, they're going to ascend the starry heights of Grand Prix show jumping, and sweep back in time to Poland in 1939 where another young girl is risking everything to save the horse that she loves... Prince of Ponies is a story of courage and the will to win against all odds. ...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 in a dangerous world of wartime espionage. Lizard doesn't know who to trust. How is the mysterious book inside the box connected to his friend Lili, a girl full of secrets and fighting skills? Can he trust her, or will she betray him in the end? Lizard's Tale is an action-packed adventure for middle-grade readers, set in a British colony in Asia as the Japanese invasion of Singapore looms. ...Show more

A Friend in Paradise by Des Hunt

$22.00 NZD

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 e ugly one. This is my story of how I met a beautiful courtesan and what happened after. ...Show more

The Time Machine and Other Stories by Melinda Szymanik

$25.00 NZD

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 st always take you on an unexpected adventure. Step aboard the time machine and discover new and selected stories by the award-winning author of The Were-Nana, The Song of Kauri and A Winter's Day in 1939. ...Show more

Awa and the Dreamrealm by Isa Pearl Ritchie

$23.00 NZD

Category: NZ Middle Fiction

What if dreams were more real than waking life? Life is already complicated enough for Awa Bryant; when she starts having weird dreams – waking dreams – and strange coincidences start appearing in her real life. She meets dreamcharmer, Veila, a quirky glowing creature who helps to guide Awa through the mysterious Dreamrealm. At first the Dreamrealm is a glorious escape from Awa's daily struggles but something is not right... Soon Awa discovers she has a bigger quest, and everything she cares about is at stake. Will she be brave enough to face her fears and save her friends? ...Show more

Omens (Sylvalla Chronicals #3)

$25.00 NZD

Category: NZ Middle Fiction

The Haunting by Margaret Mahy

$20.00 NZD

Category: NZ Middle Fiction

A brand-new edition of the Carnegie Medal-winning THE HAUNTING - written by internationally bestselling author, Margaret Mahy. 'Strong and terrifying . . . The novel winds up like a spring. A psychological thriller' - Times Literary Supplement Eight-year-old Barney has been haunted before. He thought it was something he'd just grow out of, like the imaginary friends his step-mother believes he has. But this time it's different. Footsteps follow him, there's a demanding voice barking orders and Barney begins to feel that sometimes his body is not his own at all . . . With the help of his sisters, Tabitha and Troy, Barney sets out to uncover the truth about their family secrets and to find out once and for all who it is who's haunting him. A thrilling ghost story about a 'mostly ordinary' family and a secret legacy. ...Show more

Satin, Scissors, Frock (Lily Max #1) by Jane Bloomfield

$22.00 NZD

Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Lily Max

The adventures of Lily Max, a schoolgirl at Middle Lakes Normal, who is crazy about fashion. When she hears the school ball has a prize for best-dressed costume, she comes up with her most daring designs yet...but reckons without her arch-enemy, Violet Hughes. The author Jane Bloomfield says, "I hope my books inspire children to be creative and a little experimental with fashion - not to be afraid to rock their own style. Lily Max is her own person, she's probably the type of girl I wish I'd been - doggedly determined against all odds, and outspoken." ...Show more

The Trespassers Club by Helen Vivienne Fletcher

$22.00 NZD

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 amily moves suburbs, Laura discovers an old abandoned house on her street. It seems like the perfect hideout, but something – or rather someone – is already hiding inside. Laura meets Jacob, a runaway teen in a lot of trouble. Who is Jacob and what is he hiding from … Will Laura get herself into trouble if she gets involved? ...Show more

Mal Dixon's Moon Diary - Declassified by E. Hamley

$20.00 NZD

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 I would have made the Guinness Book of Records, me as the youngest person to sign the Official Secrets Act, Grandad as the only person to successfully impersonate a Prime Minister and get away with it, and Nan as the only cook to seriously upset the KGB, CIA and MI5. If I recall correctly, Agents Woodstock and Pigpen then laughed and said that lucky for them, no-one had noticed the odd events of the past week as the whole world had been glued to their TV sets watching the Moon landing and so they'd got away with it. But it wasn't just the events in Westminster that found their way into my Moon Diary, there was also what my sister, Brenda and her mates, the 'Apple Scruffs', got up to in Paul McCartney's house. Unfortunately for Mal, who now works for RocketLab in New Zealand, although he was really good at keeping MI5's secret, MI5 have not been so good at keeping his. After Mal confesses to Brenda that he'd included parts of her diary into his homework assignment, Brenda, along with Mal's grandchildren, Golda and Rae, travel to Auckland to await the return of Mal's Moon Diary. Rae can hardly believe his luck, as a conspiracy theorist, he's not convinced the Moon landing even happened. There is one thing Rae is sure of though; that the CEO of RocketLab is really Syndrome from the movie The Incredibles. Mal Dixon's Moon Diary is original, educational and funny. ...Show more