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Code Name Bananas by David Walliams
$25.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years)
1940. Britain is at war with Nazi Germany. Eleven-year-old Eric spends his days at the place that makes him most happy: London Zoo. And there’s one animal in particular he loves: Gertrude the gorilla. With bombs falling all over London, Eric must rescue Gertrude. Together with his Uncle Sid, a keeper ...Show more
The 130-Storey Treehouse (PB) by Andy Griffiths; Terry Denton
$18.00 NZD
Category: Early readers (5 to 8 years) | Series: The Treehouse
Andy and Terry have added 13 new levels to their treehouse and now it's even more out of this world than before! There's a soap bubble blaster, a GRABINATOR (it can grab anything from anywhere at any time), a time-wasting level, a toilet paper factory (because you can never have too much toilet paper), ...Show more
The Barnabus Project by The Fan Brothers
$33.00 NZD
Category: Picture books
Deep underground beneath Perfect Pets, where children can buy genetically engineered "perfect" creatures, there is a secret lab. Barnabus and his friends live in this lab, but none of them is perfect. They are all Failed Projects.Barnabus has never been outside his tiny bell jar, yet he dreams of one da ...Show more
Egg and Spoon - An Illustrated Cookbook by Alexandra Tylee
$45.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction (children)
Egg and Spoon is a beautiful illustrated cookbook for children—and adults—that celebrates imagination, confidence and the fun of cooking. A scrumptious collection for anyone who loves good healthy food— and an occasional indulgence. Here are after-school snacks, breakfast on a stick, cakes, slices and ...Show more
Locked Down by Jessica Le Bas
$19.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years)
The deadly influenza pandemic XB276 is sweeping the country. Twelve-year-old Zac wakes up one morning to the news that everyone must stay home. He can't leave the house for weeks, or even months. Pretty soon he's facing running out of food, with no electricity, no telephone and no internet. The only peo ...Show more
Amari and the Night Brothers (#1 Supernatural Investigations) by B.B. Alston
$20.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years) | Series: Supernatural Investigations
Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing older brother, Quinton, is alive. Not even when the police told her otherwise, or when she got in trouble for standing up to bullies who said he was gone for good. So when she discovers a ticking briefcase in his closet containing a nomination for a ...Show more
My First Words in Maori Flash Cards by Stacey Morrison
$25.00 NZD
Category: Te reo Māori (children)
Help your tamariki to korero Māori with these illustrated flashcards designed to partner with Stacey Morrison's My First Words in Maori. Flashcards are a great way to have fun with tamariki on their language journey. Designed by Maori language champion Stacey Morrison, with adorable pictures by Ali Teo ...Show more
The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone (#1) by Jaclyn Moriarty
$25.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years) | Series: Bronte Mettlestone / Kingdoms and Empires
Jaclyn Moriarty returns with her first middle-grade novel, a buoyantly high-spirited fantasy adventure. Bronte Mettlestone is ten years old when her parents are killed by pirates. This does not bother her particularly: her parents ran away to have adventures when she was a baby. She has been raised by ...Show more
The Tornado by Jake Burt
$18.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years)
One of the best stories about bullying for middle grades. Highly recommended.--School Library Journal, starred review Bell Kirby is an expert at systems, whether he's designing the world's most elaborate habitat for his pet chinchilla, re-creating Leonardo da Vinci's greatest inventions in his garage, o ...Show more
The Inkberg Enigma (Graphic Novel) by Jonathan King
$30.00 NZD
Category: Graphic novels (children's)
A graphic-novel mystery adventure for eight- to twelve-year-olds in which a girl and boy uncover the secret that has corrupted their seaside town. "Haven't you always thought there's something WEIRD about this town, Miro?" Miro and Zia live in Aurora, a fishing town nestled in the shadow of an ancient c ...Show more
The King's Nightingale by Sherryl Jordan
$25.00 NZD
Category: Young adult (13+)
An epic fantasy set in a land of sultans and kings, sumptuous palaces... and slave markets. When Elowen and her brother are seized by pirates and sold, separately, in the slave market of a distant land, her enduring resolve is to escape, rescue her brother and return home. Sold to a desert ruler who adm ...Show more
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
$22.00 NZD
Category: Young adult (13+)
From the international phenomenon Angie Thomas comes a hard-hitting return to Garden Heights with the story of Maverick Carter, Starr’s father, set seventeen years before the events of the award-winning The Hate U Give. The son of a drug king, seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter is negotiating life in G ...Show more
