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How do you escape being the loblolly boy? Find the boy who stole your life and Exchange. An exciting fantasy novel for junior readers The NZ Post Juni...
Believable fantasy novel by an award-winning author for 8 to 12-year-olds - grounded in the here and now and charged with a dangerous, menacing edge. ...
Fantasy, adventure and realism combine in a junior fiction novel by an award-winning writer. When David’s uncle comes to visit he sets off a bizarre...
An exciting fantasy novel for 8 to 12 year olds involving enchantment, mystery and a garden gnome. To the boy called Red, it seems the most marvellous...
A disappearance. An infatuation. The Frog Prince is an intriguing, multi-layered novel giving us a story, within a story, within a story. Remember the...
Rites of Admission
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A strange and mischievous story written with exceptional style, pace and grace — a true classic in the making. It’s 1740 . . . The Firefly is take...
When Mallory and her sidekick Arthur kidnap the tooth fairy, they get more than they bargained for in this sparkling fantasy adventure novel for child...
A very good very bad story
An enchanting story of a story, Twice Upon a Time is a charming junior fiction novel by award-winning writer James Norcliffe. What happens when you fi...
Determined to find his long-absent mother, Larry sets off to the mysterious Carousel Caravan Park and encounters more than he bargained for-- giant ca...
James Norcliffe is one of New Zealand's most widely published and anthologised poets. In Dark Days at the Oxygen Cafe, he looks over the shoulders of ...
The poems in this book were written during the five year period since James Norcliffe's last collection, 'Villon in Millerton'. Norcliffe professes hi...
The title of James Norcliffe's tenth poetry collection points deftly to the way it conveys big emotions without cracking a smile or shedding a tear. I...
Three sequences of verse come together in this poetry collection that ranges in tone from meditative to satirical. The title sequence imagines the 14t...
A Ghost Story
"A dark lake with darker secrets. The bizarre delivery of a mysterious crate. A fortune-teller unnerved by what she reads in a palm. Why is the past r...
A collection of poems selected to encourage young people to write their own. Includes writing prompts, an interview with the author and a guide to the...
Scheming Mallory and her reluctant sidekick Arthur have a Halloween misadventure involving nasty tricks, time travel and a sneaky cat. Mallory wants c...
The Blackwater Creek Silver Band has been reduced to the size of carrots by conjuror, Henry Falco. To restore the band to their original size requires...