Baby by Annaleese Jochems
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A Winner in Ockhams New Zealand Book Awards - Best First Book Award for Fiction 2018. Cynthia is twenty-one, bored and desperately waiting for something big to happen when her bootcamp instructor, the striking Anahera, suggests they run away together. With stolen money and a dog in tow they buy 'Baby', ...Show more
Caves: NZ's Subterranean Wilderness by Marcus Thomas; Neil Silverwood
79.99 NZD
Category: Outdoor Pursuits
A Winner in Ockhams New Zealand Book Awards - Best First Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction 2018 New Zealanders as a collective share a deep connection with the outdoors. Our rivers, forests, and mountains are part of our national identity but our caves are less well-known and often misunderstood. T ...Show more
Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds by Alison Jones; Kuni Jenkins
45.00 NZD
Category: Maori History
In early 1817 Tuai, a young Ngare Raumati chief from the Bay of Islands, set off for England. He was one of a number of Maori who, after encountering European explorers, traders and missionaries in New Zealand, seized opportunities to travel beyond their familiar shores to Australia, England and Europe ...Show more
The New Animals by Pip Adam
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Near Fine
Carla, Sharon and Duey have worked in fashion for longer than they care to remember. For them, there's nothing new under the sun. They're Generation X: tired, cynical and sick of being used. Tommy, Cal and Kurt are millennials. They've come from nowhere, but with their monied families behind them they'r ...Show more
Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts by Craig Phillips
32.99 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction | Reading Level: good
A cobbler girl tricks the Wawel Dragon, after all the king's knights fail. The Polar Bear King loses his skin. Momotaro, born from a peach, defies the ogres everyone else is too scared to face. Snow White and Rose Red make friends with a bear. From Poland to Iceland, Japan to Germany, these 10 fairytal ...Show more
How to Bee by Bren MacDibble
18.99 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction
Sometimes bees get too big to be up in the branches, sometimes they fall and break their bones. This week both happened and Foreman said, 'Tomorrow we'll find two new bees.' Peony lives with her sister and grandfather on a fruit farm outside the city. In a world where real bees are extinct, the quickest ...Show more