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Told in smart, nifty prose by a veteran writer, this YA story is gentle with tough moments, and has real heart-appeal for 12 to 15-year-olds. James Gr...
Dave s soccer team has been nicknamed The Screwballs, much to his dismay. But the name has stuck because, Dave reluctantly admits, they are in fact a ...
Claudia Vogel lives and works on a perfect world. Paradise, the tropical resort she manages, is a high-tech heaven where everything, even the sunshine...
The story of three sisters who grow up and leave a small New Zealand town. The story shifts backwards and forwards in time and location, but it is anc...
Winner of the 2023 Gifkins Prize, A House Built on Sand is the vivid and gripping story of a motherโdaughter relationship and the secrets that threa...
This alternate history coming-of-age YA is the Winner of the 2018 Storylines Tessa Duder Award. โAn inferior people, thatโs what the Director call...
All Joad wants is to be in a gang like his dad was. He's offered a place in the Kingz but first he has to rob the local dairy. Will Joad go through wi...
"Lizzie Quinn receives an anonymous letter in the mail. Then she is attacked. She goes back to school scared of her own shadow. A teacher she trusts s...
Bold, colourful readers with kid-friendly characters and subjects they'd choose for themselves...
This title is part of Bug Club, the first whole-school reading programme that joins books with an online reading world to teach today's children to re...
Our Own Horse Whisperer
When New Zealand mare Ethereal rounded the turn and stretched out for the winning post, snatching the $A.125 million 2001 Melbourne Cup, she etched he...
While searching for a place to settle, a nomadic group discover a beautiful, deserted city with plenty of water and everything anyone could need. It s...
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Clem and AJ live in a city at war with danger around every corner. Hard to know who to trust especially when it comes to the attractive Koevasi. Enhan...
Bold, colourful readers with kid-friendly characters and subjects they'd choose for themselves....
An Indispensable Guide to Getting Published
"The Bateman New Zealand Writer's Handbook" is now a recommended text for many writing courses around the country.It is full of useful advice for thos...
"Jessica Pollard has moved to Turangi to be near her son Reuben who is in prison there. While working at a trout-fishing lodge on the Tongariro River,...
Leveled Reader Emerald
Brenda wants to go on an interplanetary cultural exchange, organised by her school. This would mean that while Brenda spent a week on the curious-look...
A Collection of Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand 2019
"An anthology of short stories, extracts from novels, poetry and artwork, from established and respected New Zealand writers as well as some lively 'f...
The Backbone of Our Long-Term Care System
An Indispensable Guide to Writing and Getting Published
"Have you got a sensational manuscript lurking in your bottom drawer, a specialist knowledge in a subject that deserves being committed to paper, or a...
An Emerging Definition
This Bug Club Independent package contains 447 books. Reception/P1-Year 6/P7 For ages 4-11 211 KS1 fiction books and 94 KS1 non-fiction books, 102 KS2...
At sixteen Monagh ran away from the family orchard with barely a word to her uncle and guardian Barry. Seven years later she returns, but slips away a...