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The Last Tuatara by Des Hunt
19.50 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction
In a large valley lies a geographical feature known as Jelly Mountain. It's called that because of its shape - rather like a jelly having been popped out of its mould. Its straight sides mean the top has never been explored and there are many rumours about strange creatures inhabiting it. Efforts to exp ...Show more
The Moa Cave by Des Hunt
19.99 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction
When Tyler Matthews wins a national ecological competition for a place on the NATURE SOUTH Eco Tour, he has no idea of where it will lead him. After he travels to the bottom of New Zealand's South Island to join the tour, he meets the other two winners, Hine and the maddening Mandy - and soon finds hims ...Show more
The Phantom of Terawhiti by Des Hunt
19.99 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It's the school holidays and Zac thinks he might go crazy with boredom. He's living in exile with his disgraced father on the remote Terawhiti Station on Wellington's wild southwest coast. Then Zac and his dad witness a boat sink during a storm. Investigating further, Zac finds a set of unusual animal ...Show more
The Tooth by Des Hunt
19.99 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Tim Thomas is searching for dinosaur fossils in the hills above Pounamu, his grandparent's sheep station. His mum drowned when he was four, leaving Tim with only a vague memory of her - and of a large tooth embedded in rock. But time is against him as he races to find the exact spot where the tooth lies ...Show more
To Trap a Thief by Des Hunt
17.99 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction
A man who hands out $100 notes like they were peanuts. A small-town loser robbed of a big lottery win. A young woman held against her will. Liars, thieves, scammers, hijackers ... Connor expects little from his campervan holiday with the elderly couple who are soon to be his step-grandparents. 'Mega bor ...Show more
Whale Pot Bay by Des Hunt
19.99 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction
At first it seemed the baby whale was dead. There was no sign of movement. But then its eye opened for a moment. It was alive, but only just ... Jake and his father live in a female-free zone in a remote part of the Wairarapa, where he can surf and watch the whales feeding as they pass up and down the ...Show more
Where Cuckoos Call by Des Hunt
19.99 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction
Where Cuckoos Call tells the story of a migratory shining cuckoo, raised by 12 year old Ben Mansfield, a keen ornithologist who looks after endangered birds nesting in a sheltered bay on his family farm in the Coromandel Peninsula. Ben and his mum are dealing with the long term effects of his father fs ...Show more