Tawhaki: The Deeds of a Demigod (Tāwhaki) by Hirini Moko Mead
$25.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years)
Tāwhaki: The Deeds of a Demigod recalls the miraculous life of Tāwhaki. Similar to Māui, Tāwhaki was a demigod who possessed mighty powers. Tāwhaki almost died at the hands of his brothers-in-law but was found by his wife Hine-piripiri and revived. This near-death experience revealed Tāwhaki’s status as ...Show more
Te Hiakai Tangata: The Taniwha of Tuarā-Rangaia by Hirini Moko Mead
$25.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years)
This is a story of a taniwha that lives beside a track between villages and menaces travellers and the surrounding iwi. When a chief’s son is taken by the taniwha, Te Hiakai, the people devise many plans to trap and kill the taniwha, but each time Te Hiakai outwits them. In the end, Pōhutukawa, a chief’ ...Show more
I'll Keep You Close by Jeska Verstegen
$19.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years)
A beautifully written novel based on a true story about a young girl who comes to understand why her mother is so fearful and overprotective when her class starts studying the Holocaust. Jeska doesn't know why her mother keeps the curtains drawn so tightly every day. And what exactly is she trying to d ...Show more
Skulduggery Pleasant (12) - Bedlam by Derek Landy
$18.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years) | Series: Skulduggery Pleasant
The 12th explosive novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, BEDLAM will blow your mind - and change everything... On a desperate journey to recover her sister's lost soul, Valkyrie Cain goes up against the High Sanctuary itself, and there's nothing Skulduggery Pleasant can d ...Show more
Resurrection: Skulduggery Pleasant Book 10 by Derek Landy
$18.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years) | Series: Skulduggery Pleasant
The best-selling return of skeleton detective Skulduggery Pleasant, out now in paperback. A lot has changed. Roarhaven is now a magical city, where sorcerers can live openly. Valkyrie Cain has been out of action for years, recovering from the war against her alter-ego Darquesse, which nearly destroyed h ...Show more
Skulduggery Pleasant (9) - The Dying of the Light by Derek Landy
$18.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years) | Series: Skulduggery Pleasant
The ninth book in the original, jaw-droppingly stupendous Skulduggery Pleasant series. Valkerie. Darquesse. Stephanie. The world ain't big enough for the three of them. The end will come... The War of the Sanctuaries has been won, but it was not without its casualties. Following the loss of Valkyrie Cai ...Show more
Midnight (#11 Skulduggery Pleasant) by Derek Landy
$18.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years) | Series: Skulduggery Pleasant
Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back in their most gripping story yet, as book 11, Midnight, picks up where Resurrection left off - and runs. For years, Valkyrie Cain has struggled to keep her loved ones safe from harm, plunging into battle - time and time again - by Skulduggery Pleasant's si ...Show more
Eye of the Storm (#2 Rainbow Grey Series) by Laura Ellen Anderson
$17.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years) | Series: Rainbow Grey
The second book in a magical new series from best-selling author and illustrator, Laura Ellen Anderson! Ray is getting used to life as Rainbow Grey - she now has ALL the magical weather powers at her fingertips, from roaring thunder bolts to dazzling lightning sizzles! But when all of the cloud creature ...Show more
Unplugged by Gordon Korman
$17.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years)
King of middle-grade Gordon Korman's new standalone novel full of mystery, humour, friendship . . . and alligators! Now in paperback. Jett Baranov is Silicon Valley's number one spoiled brat. The son of a billionaire tech genius, he has everything money can buy, which means he's in the habit of getting ...Show more
The Silent Stars Go By by Sally Nicholls
$22.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years)
Seventeen-year-old Margot Allan was a respectable vicar's daughter and madly in love with her fiancé Harry. But when Harry was reported Missing in Action from the Western Front, and Margot realised she was expecting his child, there was only one solution she and her family could think of in order to kee ...Show more
Maggie Blue and the Dark World (#1 Maggie Blue) by Anna Goodall
$19.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years) | Series: Maggie Blue
A thrilling tale of friendship and courage - Maggie Blue, strong-willed and isolated, sees her enemy from school taken through a window to a parallel world by one of their teachers and determines to follow, whatever the cost. With the help of irascible cat, Hoagy, they discover a world where happiness i ...Show more
Sabotage on the Solar Express (#5 Adventures on Trains) by M. G. Leonard, Sam Sedgman
$20.00 NZD
Category: Middle-grade fiction (9 to 12 years) | Series: Adventures on Trains
Ride into danger with Hal and Uncle Nat on the fifth breathtaking Adventures on Trains Mystery, <i>Sabotage on the Solar Express,</i> from bestselling award-winners M. G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman. Perfect for readers of 8 to 12 and brilliantly illustrated in black and white throughout by Elis ...Show more