Cup Magic: Auckland/San Diego 1995 (My New Zealand Story) by Susan Battye
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Fictionalised diary of Mike Lucas whose parents are involved in Team New Zealand’s 1995 America’s Cup challenge in San Diego, where Peter Blake’s Black Magic boat wins the cup. Mike is sent to live with his grandparents in Takapuna, where he learns to sail, and eventually he travels to San Diego to supp ...Show more
Body-Hopping Hysterics by Tom E. Moffatt
19.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Not all superpowers are a good thing. Especially NOT if your mum has them. Or if they're fuelled by embarrassment. And what if you can't find your way back home? Jump out of your skin with these hilarious short stories by award-winning author, Tom E. Moffatt. But don't leave your body unattended for lo ...Show more
Red Edge by Des Hunt
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Twelve-year-old Cassi Whelan and her dad have just moved into a repaired house on the edge of Christchurch's Red Zone. Although Cassi was only four when earthquakes decimated Christchurch, her memories still haunt her. An obsessive runner, she finds the wide-open spaces of the cleared Red Zone suit her ...Show more
Troubled Water (Viola Vincent Reporting #3) by Anna Kenna
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Fierce gusts jostled the car... a wave reared over the seawall and smashed against Caitlin’s window. A tropical cyclone is just one of the challenges Caitlin faces on her summer holiday. Her story about a polluted river causes a storm of another kind that stirs up community feelings that run as deep as ...Show more
The Iron Tomb (Pyramid Hunters #1) by Peter Vegas
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Pyramid Hunters
Join Sam Force on a fast-paced adventure through Egypt that's a mix of "Indiana Jones, National Treasure, and The Da Vinci Code" (School Library Journal) with the start to a brand-new series packed with puzzles and clues for readers to figure out along the way! When Sam Force goes to Egypt to spend ...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 ...Show more
A Canoe in the Mist by Elsie Locke
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Collins Modern New Zealand Classics 3 Canoes in the Mist has been selected as the third title to be released in this series, after Tripswitch and The Blue Lawn. With a younger readership, of 9-12, this much-loved classic retells the traumatic events surrounding the 1886 eruption of Mt Tarawera, from the ...Show more
The Tooth by Des Hunt
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Tim Thomas is searching for dinosaur fossils in the hills above Pounamu, his grandparent's sheep station. His mum drowned when he was four, leaving Tim with only a vague memory of her - and of a large tooth embedded in rock. But time is against him as he races to find the exact spot where the tooth lies ...Show more
The Crocodile Nest by Des Hunt
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Luke Evans never knew his father - he'd cleared out before he was born. So when his internet skills track down someone living at a luxurious resort in tropical Queensland who could be his dad, Luke's imagination runs wild. What happens when they finally meet is unexpected, and shocks him to the core. Lu ...Show more
The Shadow of the Boyd by Diana Menefy
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
A powerful story from our colonial past, in which the bitter clash of two conflicting sets of cultural values is explored from the point of view of a young boy who survived the infamous massacre of the sailing ship Boyd. In 1809 the ship is on her way across the Tasman Sea to New Zealand. On board a Ma ...Show more
Project Huia by Des Hunt
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
As children, Logan's grandfather and his sister Mavis spotted a beautiful and unusual bird in the kowhai tree outside their house: it was a huia, which was believed to be extinct. In an attempt to photograph it they tracked it deep into the Manawatu Gorge. This was a dangerous journey, made even more s ...Show more
The Raven's Eye Runaways by Claire Mabey
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
A gripping, beautifully-told fantasy quest set in a parallel medieval world. Three friends and a one-eyed raven find themselves up against the rulers who restrict the gifts of writing and reading to an elite few. They must go on a wild and unpredictable rescue mission. Who and what will they meet along ...Show more