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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
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
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 Stolen Prince of Cloudburst (#3 Bronte Mettlestone) by Jaclyn Moriarty
$25.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years) | Series: Bronte Mettlestone / Kingdoms and Empires
A magical tale of mystery and adventure that proves that sometimes even ordinary middle children can be heroes, from the bestselling author of The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone and the award-winning The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering Wars. Long ago, the little Prince ...Show more
The Last Bear by Hannah Gold
$23.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years)
Imagine making friends with a polar bear... The Last Bear is perfect for readers of 8+, beautifully illustrated throughout by Levi Pinfold - winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and illustrator of Harry Potter 20th anniversary edition covers. "This is an important first novel, important for us, for pola ...Show more
Freeing Finch by Ginny Rorby
$20.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years)
From Ginny Rorby, the author of Hurt Go Happy, winner of ALA’s Schneider Family Book Award, comes Freeing Finch, the inspiring story of a transgender girl and a stray dog who overcome adversity to find love, home, and a place to belong. When her father leaves and her mother passes away soon afterward, ...Show more
Enemy at the Gate by Philippa Werry
$23.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years)
A deadly disease is sweeping the world and nobody knows how to stop it. Movie theatres and swimming pools are shut and schools are closed. People are discouraged from gathering in large groups at the beach. Twelve-year-old Tom Mitchell can't even see his best friend Charlie. He wonders when the lockdown ...Show more
Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow (#3 Nevermoor) by Jessica Townsend
$20.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years) | Series: Morrigan Crow
Morrigan Crow and her friends have survived their first year as proud scholars of the elite Wundrous Society, helped bring down the nefarious Ghastly Market, and proven themselves loyal to Unit 919. Now Morrigan faces a new, exciting challenge: to master the mysterious Wretched Arts of the Accomplished ...Show more
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
Across the Risen Sea by Bren MacDibble
$19.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years)
'It's one of them days when everything is off. A hot sweaty night in Rusty Bus means we kids is all grouchy-tired. Me and my best friend, Jaguar, is trying to cool down by taking turns at dipping in the sea pool. Him standing on the sea wall made from car frames and rocks on lookout for crocs, me swimmi ...Show more
The Pōrangi Boy (Porangi) by Shilo Kino
$25.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years)
Twelve-year-old Niko lives in Pohe Bay, a small, rural town with a sacred hot spring and a taniwha named Taukere. The government wants to build a prison over the home of the taniwha, and Niko's grandfather is busy protesting. People call him pōrangi, crazy, but when he dies, it's up to Niko to convince ...Show more
The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S. by David Levithan
$21.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years)
Aidan disappeared for six days. Six agonising days of searches and police and questions and constant vigils. Then, just as suddenly as he vanished, Aidan reappears. Where has he been? The story he tells is simply...impossible. But it's the story Aidan is sticking to. His brother, Lucas, wants to believ ...Show more
