The Way Back by Gavriel Savit
$20.00 AUD
Category: Upper Primary
A US National Book Award Finalist, the second novel from the bestselling author of the acclaimed crossover novel, Anna and the Swallow Man. A dark fantasy adventure for fans of Neil Gaiman, Philip Pullman and The Book Thief.For the Jews of Eastern Europe, demons are everywhere. Talk of them is endless. ...Show more
The Time Travelling Stone: Seven stories, one hillside, 6000 years by Angela McAllister
$25.00 AUD
Category: Upper Primary
A full-colour gift book of seven original stories which follow the changing landscape of lives on one hillside from the Stone Age to the present day. Six thousand years ago, people first came to the hillside and a story began. A Neolithic girl, Roman twins, a herbalist's daughter, an orphaned bird-scare ...Show more
Slowcoach by Bethany Rutter
$20.00 AUD
Category: Upper Primary
Get your skates on for the sweetest feel-good, body-positive rom com of the summer
The Raven's Eye Runaways by Claire Mabey
$20.00 AUD
Category: Upper Primary
Three young people and a one-eyed raven join forces to fight against the oppressive regime that restricts the gift of reading to an elite few and aims to squash magic. Getwin is a bookbinder working from dawn till dusk with her mother at Raven's Eye Bookbindery. Lea is a scribe, living in a monastic-st ...Show more
Spying on Spies - How Elizebeth Smith Friedman Broke the Nazis' Secret Codes by Marissa Moss
$30.00 AUD
Category: Upper Primary
The fascinating story of America's first female code-breaker, Elizebeth Smith Friedman As one of the world's greatest code-breakers, Elizebeth Smith Friedman saved many lives throughout the twentieth century, catching dangerous criminals with her brilliant mind. Yet, she has largely been written out of ...Show more
Keeping Pace by Laurie Morrison
$30.00 AUD
Category: Upper Primary
Laurie Morrison's Keeping Pace is a poignant middle-grade novel about friends-turned-rivals training for a half-marathon--and rethinking what it means to win and what they mean to each other. Grace has been working for years to beat her former friend Jonah Perkins's GPA so she can be named top scholar ...Show more
The Night War by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
$20.00 AUD
Category: Upper Primary
A castle, a bridge, and dangerous secrets- in this page-turning story, set in Nazi-occupied France, a 12 year-old Jewish girl must learn who to trust and how to find her courage. 'We don't choose how we feel, but we choose how we act. Choose courage.' From the two-time Newbery Honor-winner and a #1 New ...Show more
Courage Be My Friend: The Vivian Bullwinkel Story by Jenny Davis
$18.00 AUD
Category: Upper Primary
A moving tale of friendship, survival, and the remarkable strength and resilience of women during World War II. Sister Vivian Bullwinkel was the only survivor of the Bangka Island massacre during World War II. Her evocative story is told through the eyes of fifteen-year-old Edith 'Edie' Kenneison. Siste ...Show more
Nine Girls by Stacy Gregg
$17.00 AUD
Category: Upper Primary | Reading Level: near fine
Nine Girls is a page-turning adventure from Stacy Gregg, one of Aotearoa's most internationally successful and locally awarded writers.An epic story woven with suspense by Pony Club Secrets and The Princess and the Foal author Stacy Gregg.They dug a hole and they put the box filled with gold inside it.T ...Show more
Tweet by Morris Gleitzman
$18.00 AUD
Category: Upper Primary
A boy and his beloved budgie are thrust into an epic adventure that could change everything. Absolutely everything. Birds. Lots of birds. The people of the world are puzzled. Their feathered friends are trying to tell them something, and they’re not sure what it is. Then a boy and his pet budgie discov ...Show more
Shadow of the Wolf (#1 The Blind Bowman) by Tim HALL
$20.00 AUD
Category: Upper Primary
A world of gods and monsters. An elemental power, rising. This is Robin Hood, reborn, as he has never been seen before . . . Robin Hood has been blinded. The great forest of Sherwood calls to him. Ancient myths, old magicks, will reach out. He will be transformed. The world is changing; forces loyal to ...Show more
Cross My Heart and Never Lie by Nora Dasnes, Matt Bagguley (Translator)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Upper Primary
Tuva is starting seventh grade, and her checklist of goals includes: writing a diary, getting a cool look, building the best fort in the woods with her BFFs, and sharing EVERYTHING with her best friends. But when she starts school, nothing is how she hoped it would be. Seventh grade has split her frien ...Show more