What would you do if someone upset your grandma?
Maddie and Grandma are all set to enter the baking competition at the town's annual show when someone steals Grandma's cupcakes!
Maddie knows..
What would you do if someone stole your best friend's puppies?
Maddie can't believe it. Rose's puppies have disappeared!
Maddie's clever collie Ruby finds one pup, dropped by the thief, but..
Farah of Untwa joins a school for training fighters, strategic thinkers and military personnel. It means she escapes her domineering mother and the tedious duties that come with being from a Ngati in ..
A moving graphic memoir of growing up Pasifika in New Zealand, written and illustrated by our fast-talking PI Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh.
At school, Selina is teased for her big, frizzy..
The wild mokopuna loved their Nanny Jo. She took them to the park, to the river, to the bush. But when Nanny Jo became sick, the wild mokopuna gathered around her to hear the story of the great fisher..
Twelve-year-old Toby and his sister Millie, fourteen, are tramping the Heaphy Track with their mother when they go off-track to find an old surveyor's hut their grandfather used. When their mother bre..
Nine Girls is a page-turning adventure from Stacy Gregg, one of Aotearoa's most internationally successful and locally awarded writers.
An epic story woven with tapu and suspense by Pony Club Sec..
An exciting adventure novel for contemporary kids with a fairytale setting, a daring hero and message that you're never too young and powerless to stand up to tyrants!
What happens when a group o..
One Tree House releases two more exciting new adventures in the new series about shapeshifting superheroes Pipi and Pou, written by award-winning Tim Tipene. Pipi and Pou are two cousins who transform..
One of the local boys has arrived home telling of a frightening woman who attacked him in the local forest, throwing balls of fire. From his description Nan thinks she knows who it might be and her mo..
One Tree House releases two more exciting new adventures in the new series about shapeshifting superheroes Pipi and Pou, written by award-winning Tim Tipene. Pipi and Pou are two cousins who transform..
Huge tides are swamping the coast and overrunning the homes of a coastal Marae. Nan believes it isn't what it seems, and the trio of heroes set off in Betsy to find out more. It takes all three to rea..
The fourth gripping adventure in this exciting new pony-club series. With gymkhanas to win, rivals to defeat, mysteries to solve and ponies in danger to save -- these books are perfect for all girls w..
Lucy and Lily's Granddad is missing and they're desperate to find him. But first they must survive a great and unusual adventure filled with brutes in nail-polish, a strange bookshop, a children-eatin..
A re-release for a new audience, introducing a key event in NZ political history. The Rainbow Warrior was the flagship of the Greenpeace anti-nuclear movement, when it was sunk by agents of the French..
Tooth is my pony, but he's his own boss. I take care of him and in exchange he lets me ride him. I wasn't surprised when Tooth first communicated with me. All I knew was that with Tooth, it was diffe..
On the way to school, Amorangi realises he forgot to bring an old object to school to talk about. Quickly, he and his sister, Millie, decide to travel back in time and find something. They've travelle..
Drawn into a world of prejudice, deceit and danger, Wrench must master her powers, knowing they offer her only hope for survival . . . if they don't destroy the world first.
Screams surge alon..
If Mina Cucina doesn’t cook. There can be no accidents,” explained Spaghetti Giraffe. “And if there are no accidents no new animals can be born.” The under-cooker animals want babies. But Mina Cucina ..
Can Lucas pull off staging an alien encounter and save his tiny country school from closure? A madcap novel by an award-winning author for readers 8 years and older.
Eleven-year-old Lucas has got..
Everyone's favourite pampered pedigree secret agent returns with yet another wild case to solve.
This time, Enzo's got much more than he bargained for with a new addition to his household: a tiny..
Maia is just another ten-year-old girl... Except her mum is the owner of Tasman Zoo! The much-anticipated Bug House is due to open in a week, but when the bug shipments are delayed, Maia is forced to ..
Awatea is staying in the country with his grandparents and uncles - next door to Mrs Carol's house, said to be haunted. Awatea's uncles challenge him to spend a night there, but can he do it? Meantime..
Shackleton: WHOA WHOA WHOA. ANACONDA attack?! Don't worry, there aren't any giant, kid-eating snakes in this book. I'm just having my best friend Amelia for a sleepover. Right? ... RIGHT?!
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That's what my photos are. Little moments. All the good moments, the kind moments, the moments of care and love that, if you add them all together, make a life sweet.
Bastienne Scull is a young o..
'We're gonna starve if we stay here,' Emery said. 'If we're gonna go, best go now.'
And he said it like going was something easy. Like all we have to do is walk away.
Ella and her brother Emer..
The Dragon Defenders - Book Five: The Grand Opening is the fifth and final book in the best-selling Dragon Defenders series.
It's all over - The Pitbull has won! He's captured every last dragon fro..
The Pitbull is furious. His evil plans to capture the dragons on Flynn and Paddy's paradise island have come to nothing. And now his niece, Briar, has joined forces with the brothers. As he musters hi..
The Dragon Defenders series is a best-selling, rip-roaring, page-turning series of dragons and their brave child guardians, with mind-blowing, interactive augmented reality content accessible via free..
A best-selling, rip-roaring, page-turning tale of dragons and their brave child guardians, with mind-blowing, interactive augmented reality content accessible via free app AR Reads.
Evil..
The first book of The Dragon Brothers Novel Series, this book follows on from the best-selling picture book series The Dragon Brothers Trilogy. The two brothers Flynn and Paddy are now 12 and 10 years..
We meet Merel, a girl living on a futuristic island in the middle of a sea. Many years have past since the community survived the floods and the severe heat that has forced their forbears to shadow th..
Thirteen-year-old Ella knows that words are powerful.
So she should have known better than to utter a wish and a curse on the same day, even in jest.??
When the boy she has cursed goes miss..
When Oliver goes to stay with his grandparents on Herald Island, he discovers what he thinks is an old shipwreck in the Upper Waitemata Harbour.
When they do some online research, Oliver and his gra..
Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents the second book in Graci Kim's best-selling Gifted Clans trilogy, now in paperback!
For Riley Oh, life as the Godrealm's last fallen star is not all it's..
A fresh and exciting mapmaking adventure. Sal, Joe, Francie and Humphrey misplace their famous mapmaker mother as they begin the Great Race to map a rail route through an uncharted wilderness. Thei..
A magical, spine-tingling novel about a girl who wants to escape her memories and a troll who is desperately trying to remember his, from the award-winning author of Conrad Cooper's Last Stand and The..
Colonial survivor, farmer’s wife and horse whisperer Kitty
Kirk is the central figure in this historical novel that looks at
her colourful life. She lived from 1855 to 1930 during the
turbulent ..
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 gran..
The start of a new beginner chapter book series designed for readers 6 8 years old. Each adventure features two cousins who transform into superheroes to solve a problem, under the watchful eye of t..
Three friends and a one-eyed raven find themselves up against the rulers who restrict the gifts of writing and reading to an elite few.
They must go on a wild and unpredictable rescue mission. ..
We've been told over and over we're the generation that waits for the world to recover. We endure the heat. We endure the storms, the wrecking floods, the long droughts, the days of smoke as fire burn..
A magical retelling of Swan Lake, featuring a clever orphan, a castle filled with enchanted swans, and a quest to unearth the secrets of the past.
A magical retelling of Swan Lake, featuring a cl..
From the animator of The Corpse Bride, Coraline and Isle of Dogs, comes a hilarious, illustrated tale about Gramps's life as a magician.
Gramps had what they call a 'Chequered Career' which he in..
Armed with the courage of their convictions, two girls embark on a perilous journey to challenge their leaders' actions. Cousins, Te Kawenga and Kakati learn of a plan being hatched against a neighbou..
Discovered picking pockets at Coxford's Corn Market, fourteen year old Sin is hunted across the city. Caught by the enigmatic Eldritch Moons, Sin is offered a way out of his life of crime: join the Co..