Orchard Street by Maurice Gee
17.95 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Some very strange things are happening in Orchard Street. Ossie's dad is doing something illegal under the house; everyone is talking about the waterfront strike; adults are behaving in odd ways towards each other - and Ossie is falling in love
The Champion by Maurice Gee
17.99 NZD
18.99 (5% off)
Category: Young Adult Fiction
What do you answer when people say, 'Who was the most important person you've ever known?'...It was Jackson Coop. He changed my life - Jackson and the things that happened in those two weeks. It is summer 1943 in a small New Zealand town, and a wounded American soldier is coming to stay with 12-year-ol ...Show more
The World Around The Corner by Maurice Gee
17.99 NZD
18.99 (5% off)
Category: Young Adult Fiction
When Caroline discovers an old pair of spectacles in her father's junk shop she has no idea how important they are. Even when she puts them on and sees things very differently, she doesn't guess that the safety of another world depends on them. In a race against time, Caroline has to tackle the ghastly ...Show more
Chicken Feathers by Joy Cowley
17.99 NZD
18.99 (5% off)
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A feel-good story about Josh, and his cantankerous pet hen, Semolina. Semolina can talk and in return for prawn crackers and the odd beer, she tells Josh all the animal gossip. The problem is that no one believes she can talk and Josh's warning about a fox on the loose in the chicken house is laughed at ...Show more
Ticket to the Sky Dance by Joy Cowley
17.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Shog and his twin sister, Jancie, are orphans who live on the streets. They know every free food place in the city and how to make the best of looking helpless and cute. Their favourite possessions are hologram players and Zeus boots - they are freedom children of the twenty-first century, using their g ...Show more
Gool by Maurice Gee
19.95 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Salt Trilogy 2 | Reading Level: Very Good
Gool is the sequel to Salt. Sixteen years have passed since Pearl from Company and Hari from Blood Burrow defeated the tyrant Ottmar. Now their children, Xantee and Lo, face an even more dangerous foe. Hari lies dangerously ill with a fragment of a strange creature wrapped around his throat, draining hi ...Show more
The Fat Man by Maurice Gee
22.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Reading Level: 13+
When people like Herbert Muskie take up residence in your mind, there's nothing you can do to get them out. Colin Potter is a skinny boy, hungry for chocolate. Herbert Muskie is enormously fat, hungry for revenge. A dramatic encounter down at the creek forges an unhappy alliance between the vindictive m ...Show more
Museum of Mary Child by Cassandra Golds
22.99 NZD
24.00 (4% off)
Category: Young Adult Fiction
This story is about a friendless little girl called Heloise. She lives with her strict and forbidding aunt in an isolated house with a strange museum in the back garden. She is forbidden to go there. One day, Heloise finds a mysterious doll under her bedroom floorboards and they become firm friends.
Destiny's Right Hand by Michael Wagner
16.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Eddie Innocent hopes to become an award-winning newspaper journalist. Eddie has an uncanny ability to find the most bizarre supernatural stories unfolding in his city. Enter Destiny, a girl with a transplanted right hand that has a mind of its own and is making her steal things - or so she says. What do ...Show more
Blueback by Tim Winton
23.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Abel Jackson has lived by the sea at Longboat Bay ever since he could remember. He helps his mother each day and loves to dive. One day he meets Blueback, the biggest and most beautiful fish he's ever seen.When Abel's mother is approached by developers she decides she must do something to protect their ...Show more
Tiger Trouble (Extreme Adventures) by Justin D'Ath
17.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Extreme Adventures | Reading Level: 10-13
Sam and his family are in New Delhi watching big brother Nathan make his international cricketing debut (he hits a six, of course) when a young pickpocket steals Sam's backpack. Sam gives chase and runs foul of the boss of a pickpocket gang, who's also involved in the illegal trade of exotic pets, inclu ...Show more
Kids' Night In! #3 by Edited by Jessica Adams et al
28.00 NZD
29.00 (3% off)
Category: Young Adult Fiction
This fresh and exciting anthology follows in the footsteps of the bestselling Kids' Night In and Kids' Night In 2. With bedtime stories, rainy day stories, and poems, the book also includes the recipes, lists, jokes, and cartoons you've come to excpect. More than 50 of your favourite children's writers, ...Show more