The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits – but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we’re staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now. Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Mar ...Show more
The Edible Backyard by Kath Irvine
$50.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
In this practical step-by-step guide, gardening teacher Kath Irvine shares her wealth of knowledge from more than 20 years of helping Kiwi gardeners design, build, grow and maintain their own productive edible gardens. Kath's sage, hands-on, often humorous advice steps readers through everything they ne ...Show more
Dice by Claire Baylis
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Four teenage boys invent a sex game based on rolling dice and doing what the numbers say. They are charged with multiple sexual offences against three teenage girls. Twelve random jurors are brought together in a trial to work out what actually happened. Only they can say whether crimes have been commit ...Show more
Eddy, Eddy by Kate De Goldi
$30.00 NZD
Category: YA Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Eddy Smallbone (orphan) is grappling with identity, love, loss, and religion. It's two years since he blew up his school life and the earthquakes felled his city. Home life is maddening. His pet-minding job is expanding in peculiar directions. And now the past and the future have come calling - in unexp ...Show more
The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
$39.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand. Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about her favourite books, and ...Show more
Pet by Catherine Chidgey
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted, Dublin Literary Award shortlisted, and Ockham NZ Book Award winning author of The Axeman's Carnival and Remote Sympathy, Catherine Chidgey. Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new te ...Show more
Going Zero by Anthony McCarten
$38.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
TWO HOURS TO VANISH Ten people have been carefully selected to Beta test a ground-breaking piece of spyware. Pioneered by tech-wunderkind Cy Baxter, FUSION can track anyone wherever they are on earth. But does it work? ONE CHANCE TO ESCAPE Each participant is given two hours to 'Go Zero' – to go off-gri ...Show more
The Girl Who Drank The Moon by Kelly Barnhill
$19.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction (Ages 8-12)
A New York Times BestsellerWinner of the 2017 Newbery Medal2017 Booklist Youth Editors' ChoiceOn seven Best Book ListsEvery year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby for the witch in the forest to keep her from terrorizing their town. But Xan is kind. She nourishes the babies with starlight and ...Show more
Inside the Villains by Clotilde Perrin
$40.00 NZD
Category: Lift-the-Flaps / Push & Slide / Touch & Feel
An extraordinary pop-up book that reveals the secrets of the most famous fairy-tale villains--the giant, the wolf and the witch--with interactive flaps, a twist on well-known tales, and personality cards for each villain. Lift the flaps to see the diabolical thoughts inside the villains' heads, what hid ...Show more
Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Kurangaituku is the story of Hatupatu told from the perspective of the traditional ‘monster’, Kurangaituku, the bird woman. In the traditional story, told from the view of Hatupatu, he is out hunting and is captured by a creature that is part bird and part woman. The bird woman imprisons him in her cav ...Show more
Pax (#1) by Sara Pennypacker
$19.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction (Ages 8-12)
National Book Award Longlist * New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year This paperback edition has french flaps. From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. ...Show more
From the Centre - A Writer's Life by Patricia Grace
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
'We live by the sea, which hems and stitches the scalloped edges of the land.' Renowned writer Patricia Grace begins her remarkable memoirs beside her beloved Hongoeka Bay. It is the place she has returned to throughout her life, and fought for, one of many battles she has faced- 'It was when I first we ...Show more