Te Rā Kura ki Aotearoa by Donovan Bixley (Illustrator)
20.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
Starting school is a big step up. Ta te Kiwi Ro Kura familiarises children and their parents with the structure of the kiwi school day and puts them at ease with elements of the New Zealand curriculum: What do you do at school?, Who will be there?, What will I learn?, What will my classroom be like? Aut ...Show more
Those Magnificent Voyagers of the Pacific by Andrew Crowe
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
This epic story begins 5000 years ago, when the ancestors of Polynesians discovered ways to ‘see’ over the horizon to find and settle new islands. As their landfinding skills grew, these people took ever bigger strides across the vast Pacific until they reached South America. It was not until almost eve ...Show more
Ko Tama Me Te Taniwha (Tama and the Taniwha - Maori Edition) by Melanie Koster
22.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
Tama is down at the lake with his sisters and grandparents. When his sisters tease him about a taniwha being in the river, he takes a deep breath and dives in anyway. What is that wonderful, swirling, sparkling apparition? Is it a taniwha ... or is it something else altogether?
Grandpa's Dashing Dessert by Tania Sickling
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Uh-oh – Grandpa’s back in another sticky (and sweet) situation! Straight down the hill, it went, faster and faster, a beautiful, colourful and tasty disaster. It might crash and splatter. It might topple over. We had no idea how to save our pavlova. Grandpa is back and this time he is in the kitchen b ...Show more
Tui Street Legends (#3) by Anne Kayes
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Tui Street 3
The Tūī Street kids are studying legends at school. After learning about the Loch Ness monster, an unusual light begins to glow through the hole in the hedge in Ella’s back yard. When they discuss Robin Hood at school, Tim discovers that the walls of a nearby house are covered with bows and arrows. Stra ...Show more
Critters of Aotearoa: 50 Bizarre But Lovable Members of Our Wildlife Community by Nicola Toki, Lily Duval
30.00 NZD
Category: Animals
Meet some of our most curious critters, from the popular Radio New Zealand podcast with Nicola Toki and Jesse Mulligan. Slimy, stinky, creepy, crawly and gross . . . but also a little bit cute! Discover New Zealand's most curious creatures - from Smeagol the gravel maggot, to the walking worm and the d ...Show more
The Other Brother by Jax Calder
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Ryan has had seventeen years of being compared to Cody, part of his toxic fractured family, so you’ll forgive him for some epic eye-rolling when it comes to Mr Perfect. Although not related to him by blood, Cody has always been annoying background noise in Ryan’s life. It doesn’t help that Cody’s a high ...Show more
Tama and the Taniwha by Melanie Koster
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Tama is down at the lake with his sisters and grandparents. When his sisters tease him about a taniwha being in the river, he takes a deep breath and dives in anyway. What is that wonderful, swirling, sparkling apparition? Is it a taniwha ... or is it something else altogether?
Pasifika Navigators: Pasifika Student Poetry Collection by Pasifika Students from across Aotearoa
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Pasifika Navigators are constantly trying to find their place in the world while still wanting to find, reconnect and honour who they are, what they are and everything that comes with this. Pasifika students across Aotearoa share their dreams, aspirations, life changing challenges and learnings. The poe ...Show more
Wot Knot You Got? Mophead's Guide to Life by Selina Tusitala Marsh
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
With her trademark visual wit, our buddy Mophead unravels the knots that keep us up at night. ‘What do you do if nothing is right – not at home, at school, anywhere?’‘What if people don’t like me?’‘What if your own ideas stink?’‘How do I hug my dad?’ One morning, Selina wakes up with a twisting, tang ...Show more
Like The Wind (#2 Holding the Horse) by J. L. Williams
0.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Series: Holding The Horse
A dream of glory. A dangerous choice. In racing, only winning counts. Life seems to be going well for sixteen-year-old apprentice jockey Sid Everett - until the moment he listens in on a private conversation. Now his worst fears are confirmed, and he is about to face the thing he least wants. Kn ...Show more
Caged by Susan Brocker
21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
A heart-wrenching story about Sam, a 14-year-old girl from a struggling homeless family, who is already involved in petty crime. She must face her own fears and her sense of what is right, to defy a dangerous drug criminal, and rescue starving dogs and their pups from an inhumane backyard breeder.