Whetū Toa and the Hunt for Ramses (#2)

Author(s): Steph Matuku

NZ Junior Fiction

Whetū is about to start school, and no one is happy. Not the chicken. Not the bull. Especially not Ramses the golden ram, who goes missing.


Tori the cat and Whetū go on a rescue mission. They catch starbeams to strange worlds and find Ramses on another planet. But there's a problem: an evil magician controls the planet. 

Publication October 2021


Product Information

Steph Matuku (Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Tama, Te Atiawa) is a freelance writer from Taranaki. She enjoys writing stories for young people and her work has appeared on the page, stage and screen. Her first two novels, Flight of the Fantail and Whetū Toa and the Magician were Storylines Notable Books. Whetū Toa and the Magician was a finalist at the 2019 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. In 2021, she was awarded the established Māori writer residency at the Michael King Centre where she worked on a novel about post-apocalyptic climate change.

General Fields

  • : 9781775506225
  • : Huia Publishers
  • : Huia Publishers
  • : July 2021
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Steph Matuku
  • : Paperback
  • : Katharine Hall
  • : english
  • : 823.3
  • : 144