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9781877467479

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NZ$ 20.50 each
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Author: Margaret Mahy
Published by: Gecko Press
In Stock: 19
'Watch the road! Watch the road!' screamed David. 'I don't have to,' Harley replied in a strangled voice. Slumping back in his seat, he took his foot off the accelerator and held his hands away from the wheel. The soft hum of the car's motor did not decrease. The car did not lose speed. If anything, it seemed to move even faster than before. 'It's driving itself,' Harley said.

Margaret Mahy's new book Organ Music weaves themes of bioethics and genetic experiments with a ghost story and some truly terrifying characters.
An engrossing chilling, thrilling tale of danger and hidden secret experiments.

First published September 2010.


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Author: Margaret Mahy
Published by: Gecko Press
In Stock: 19
'Watch the road! Watch the road!' screamed David. 'I don't have to,' Harley replied in a strangled voice. Slumping back in his seat, he took his foot off the accelerator and held his hands away from the wheel. The soft hum of the car's motor did not decrease. The car did not lose speed. If anything, it seemed to move even faster than before. 'It's driving itself,' Harley said.

Margaret Mahy's new book Organ Music weaves themes of bioethics and genetic experiments with a ghost story and some truly terrifying characters.
An engrossing chilling, thrilling tale of danger and hidden secret experiments.

First published September 2010.


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9781877460258

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Author: James Norcliffe
Published by: Longacre Press
In Stock: 4
Winner of the Junior Fiction Category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards 2010

The strange and diverting story of the Loblolly Boy, a fantasy novel by James Norcliffe involving enchantment, mystery, one garden gnome and a wombat's bottom. To the boy called Red, it seems the most marvellous escape he could wish for: a gift that grants him more freedom than he ever believed possible - the chance to fly, to soar with the gulls, high over the tall brick walls that have imprisoned him for so long. But this gift comes with a terrible price - and puts him in grave danger. Is there anyone Red can trust to help him? The curious Captain Bass who has strange powers of his own? The wildly unpredictable twin sisters he is strongly drawn to? In this magical, mysterious story, Red's adventure is like a chamber of mirrors at a carnival - a dazzling and breathtaking tale. This book had its origins in a short story, which the author has developed ... more

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9781869793296

Into the Wilderness (Blood of the Lamb Book 2) order quantity
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NZ$ 20.00 each
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Author: Mandy Hager
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
In Stock: 3
This is the second thrilling book in the Blood of the Lamb trilogy.
Maryam, Ruth and Joseph have fled Onewēre, reluctantly lumbered with Joseph's troublesome cousin, Lazarus, as well. They arrive at their destination, Marawa Island, filled with hope for rescue and reprieve. But at first glance the island appears to be solely populated by birds.
Perhaps the Apostle's dire warnings about the fall-out of the Tribulation were true after all?
As Maryam and Joseph experience all the topsy-turvy misunderstandings and sexual tension first love entails, the antagonism between Maryam and Lazarus reaches explosive proportions.
But when disaster brings the crushing realisation that time is now against them, all four must decide just who they can risk turning to for help.

"You’ll be swept along by this exciting story from the imaginative Mandy Hager"–-Margaret Mahy.

"A taut, original thriller." --TVNZ Booknews

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9781877135873

Thunder Road order quantity
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NZ$ 19.00 each
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Author: Ted Dawe
Published by: Longacre Press
In Stock: 3
Young Adult Fiction category winner in the 2004 NZ Post Children's Book awards.
You find it in any city after the cops are in bed - Thunder Road.

It's where the street racers go to test their machines, and their nerve. Trace is 19 and has grown out of small town ways. He's hungry for more. In Auckland he hooks up with Devon, a guy with the Midas touch, who introduces Trace to burn-offs, big city style. When Trace falls for a girl even Devon says is out of his league loyalties are stretched.

Then Devon hits on a dangerous scheme for hauling in cash. Soon enough he and Trace find out who really controls the strip and the underworld starts closing in… Edgy and very topical. Ted Dawe says that Devon reminds him of his cousin Jak - a dynamic, over-confident street-racer who died in a car accident.

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9781869439347

A Crack In the Sky order quantity
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NZ$ 18.00 each
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Author: Kyle Mewburn
Published by: Scholastic New Zealand
In Stock: 2
When is a sofa not a sofa? When it is the entry to another world!
Nine-year-old Conor's day doesn't start well. His right arm seems to be missing! Then he appears to have grown horns. But it's the next event that proves fateful. His mum catches her skirt on a loose spring in the sofa. It's time to replace the sofa ...obviously. But money is tight. So when Conor sees an old sofa bobbing in the tide as he walks to school, about to strand itself on the muddy shore, it seems like fate is working in his favour. But there's something very strange about this particular sofa ...Kyle Mewburn's imagination runs riot in this humorous novel for young readers.

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9781877361494

And Did Those Feet... order quantity
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Author: Ted Dawe
Published by: Longacre Press
In Stock: 2
The year mum died and Dad went mad I was packed off to a farm for a while.The first sentence of Ted Dawe's new book sets the scene for this tender and dramatic story. But this is no ordinary farm: our narrator's Aunt Lorna, Uncle Frank and five cousins belong to the Jerusalem League, a William Blake cult. Their house is unusual, in that the rooms are hexagons - six-sided - as are the doors and windows, the dinner table and plates. And you guessed it; they're bee-keepers.Our young narrator takes us through his initiation to farm life: chores and more chores, which he doesn't mind really, starting a new school and coping with the local bully, Noel Cudby, finding the perfect place: a swimming hole hidden in the bush, and making friends with Pimpernickle, the resident pig.It's here with Pimpernickle when we become aware of his loneliness: That pig is sure smart. I reckon he can tell my moods. When I'm feeling depressed, which is quite ... more

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9781877361869

Billy and Old Smoko order quantity
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NZ$ 18.00 each
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Author: Jack Lasenby
Published by: Longacre Press
In Stock: 2
Billy wakes up one morning to find a strange woman burning his porridge. The woman speaks without pause but says she's his real mum. Billy knows this isn't true. And when he finds a secret note from his real mother, he sets out to find her. There follows a madcap, mischievous story of how Billy manages to survive living with an imposter who feeds him nothing but burnt crumbs and half an empty eggshell. Billy befriends an amazing talking horse and together they gradually piece together a series of loopy clues that reveal how a whole village of mothers could possibly go missing. With some nutty, funny ideas about time, history and the grownups that kids have to put up with, Jack Lasenby gives us a bonkers plot that turns up clones,mad scientists and witches. This is a mystery and thriller built on batty logic. It's a book to be read - and laughed - aloud to all children. Even those who've never had to tuck their mums and dads into bed.

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ISBN / ISSN:
9781407103716

Blitz: A Wartime Girl's Diary, 1940-1941 (My Story) order quantity
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NZ$ 19.50 each
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Author: Vince Cross
Published by: Scholastic Point
In Stock: 2
It's 1940 and with London under fire, Edie and her little brother are evacuated to Wales. Miles from home and missing her family, Edie is determined to be strong, but when life in the countryside proves tougher than in the capital she is torn between obeying her parents and protecting her brother.

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9781869793289

Fierce September (Juno - Volume 2) order quantity
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NZ$ 20.50 each
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Author: Fleur Beale
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
In Stock: 2
Juno and the Taris inhabitants must leave their dying island. The young people look forward to a wider life Outside, but Outside too has its problems. It is two-year-old Hera, with her uncanny ability to foresee events, who saves the Taris people from the injury and death prepared for them by an underground group of protestors.
The people of Taris, though, have no choice but to try to live in this seemingly hostile place. The young people are entranced despite the hate campaign against them: there are the fashions, the technologies and best of all for Juno, the freedom from extreme control. Only days after the group arrives, a pandemic hits the country - this has drastic consequences for Juno and her people.
Once the pandemic is over, life settles down and the question now for Juno is to find her way amongst the choices open to her, some of which cause her parents to fear she is abandoning the values they hold so dear.
Juno was ... more

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9781877467257

Friends (Snake and Lizard #2) order quantity
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NZ$ 21.00 each
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Author: Joy Cowley (Illustrated by Gavin Bishop)
Published by: Gecko Press
In Stock: 2
From the award-winning duo of Joy Cowley and Gavin Bishop, this is a new book of stories about the daily adventures of the lovable pair - Snake & Lizard. Snake is elegant and calm, and a little self-centred; Lizard is exuberant and irrepressible. With its wisdom, acceptance and good humour, Friends: Snake and Lizard captures the essence of friendship. The stories are beautifully illustrated by Gavin Bishop in the warm and clear colours of the desert.

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ISBN / ISSN:
9780143305446

Gool (Salt #2) order quantity
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NZ$ 20.00 each
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Author: Maurice Gee
Published by: Puffin Books
In Stock: 2
A new edition of the second installment of Maurice Gee's breathtaking Salt series.

Sixteen years have passed since Pearl from Company and Hari from Blood Burrow defeated the tyrant Ottmar. Now their children, Xantee and Lo, face an even more dangerous foe. Hari lies gravely ill with a fragment of a strange creature wrapped around his throat, draining his life. The beast is called gool, meaning unbelonger. It is one of many, destroying the mountains and jungles of the world. Somewhere a hidden mother nourishes her brood - she must be found and destroyed to save Hari and the world they know. Kantee, Lo and the brave and practical youth Duro set out on a perilous mission that will take them to the ruined city of Belong and on to Ceebeedee, where terrifying clashes with the cruel rival leaders and lurking gool await them.


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ISBN / ISSN:
9780143304586

Ripple and the Wild Horses of White Cloud Station (White Cloud Station - Book 1) order quantity
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NZ$ 18.00 each
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Author: Trudy Nicholson
Published by: Puffin
In Stock: 2
Suzy and her two best friends, Lucy and Alexa, are attending the annual round-up and auction at White Cloud Station. All three girls are desperate to buy horses of their own but unfortunately Suzy is allergic to horses and her father has forbidden her to have one.
Suzy falls in love with a curly-coated horse that she desperately wants to buy. However, things don't go according to plan when he gets sold to another bidder.

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ISBN / ISSN:
9780143305453

Salt (Salt #1) order quantity
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NZ$ 20.00 each
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Author: Maurice Gee
Published by: Puffin Books
In Stock: 2
A rejacketed new edition of the first instalment of Maurice Gee's breathtaking Salt series.

Hari lives in Blood Burrow, deep in the ruined city of Belong, where he survives by courage and savagery. He is scarred from fighting, he is dangerous and cruel, but he has a secret gift: he can speak with animals.
When his father, Tarl, is taken as a slave and sent to the mine known as Deep Salt, from where no worker ever returns, Hari vows to save him.
Pearl is from the ruling families, known as Company, which has conquered and enslaved Hari's people. Her destiny involves marriage that will unite her family with that of the powerful and ambitious Ottmar. But Pearl has learned forbidden things from Tealeaf, her maid, and will never submit to a subordinate life. A long journey through the badlands towards Deep Salt finds Pearl and Hari united for a common cause. It soon becomes clear that the survival of their people ... more

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9781869507343

The Bone Tiki (#1) order quantity
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NZ$ 20.00 each
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Author: David Hair
Published by: HarperCollins New Zealand
In Stock: 2
Best First Book Award, New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2010.
What do you do when you meet a tohunga makutu?
You run.
When reality dissolves and myths and legends come alive?
You run faster.
And when the dead come to life and blood debts have to be paid, will you have the courage to do what must be done? Matiu Douglas has a bone tiki he took from a tangi. His father's important new client wants it. Badly. And he has some very nasty friends. When Mat is forced to flee for his life, an unexpected meeting with a girl called Pania sets his world spinning. Suddenly he's running through the bush with a girl-clown, a dog who is way too human, and a long-dead warrior. Fearful creatures from legend are rising up around him, and Mat faces a terrifying ordeal. And there is nowhere left to hide...not even in another world.
A breathtaking adventure set in two parallel New Zealands, from exciting new author David Hair.
The spine ... more

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9781869791506

The Crossing (Blood of the Lamb Book 1) order quantity
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Author: Mandy Hager
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
In Stock: 2
Winner of the Young Adult Category of the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2010.

This book, the first in a stunning trilogy, is set on a fictional Pacific island, approximately three generations after an apocalyptic event (a solar flare) in 2012 threw the world into complete chaos. At that time, a large cruise ship 'Star of the Sea' had just foundered at the entrance to the main lagoon. This cruise ship, and her accompanying crew, forms a temporary sanctuary for the island's inhabitants. Over the intervening years, the descendants of the original ship's captain and officers manipulate Christian texts to implant themselves as 'gods'. With greater resources and reserves than the islanders, this white elite re-builds a society that is predominantly designed to meet its own needs - especially one specialised 'need'…the need for blood. A leukaemia-related disease (attributed to the radiation from the solar flare) has reached ... more

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9780143305163

The Limping Man (Salt #3) order quantity
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NZ$ 20.00 each
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Author: Maurice Gee
Published by: Puffin Books
In Stock: 2
The third instalment of Maurice Gee's breathtaking Salt series - now rejacketed.

What is the source of the Limping Man's monstrous power? Nobody can withstand it, a soft crawling that seeps into your skin and wriggles into your mind, making you powerless with love for him even as his cruelties multiply.
When Hana's mam chooses to swallow frogweed poison rather than die in the great witch-burning in People's Square, Hana flees the burrows before she too is taken.
Deep in the forest she meets Ben, son of Lo, and the two journey back to the burrows to find a way to destroy the Limping Man before his evil consumes the world.
But first they must discover the secret of his strength.

First published March 2010.

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ISBN / ISSN:
9780571252473

The Petrifying Plot of the Plummeting Pants (Boy Zero Wannabe Hero #1) order quantity
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NZ$ 16.00 each
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Author: Peter Millett Illustrated by Steve May
Published by: Faber and Faber
In Stock: 2
Charlie Applejack's career as a superhero might be over before it's even begun. His mother wants him to choose a safe job as a TV game show host and the Super School has rejected him because his super powers aren't super enough. However, when the evil villain and wannabe rock star General Pandemonium captures all of the world's superheroes, and threatens to vaporise every pair of pants on the planet, it's up to Charlie to save the day. Will he be a superhero - or will he be a superzero?

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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869419868

A Birthday in the Life of Ozzie Kingsford #1 order quantity
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NZ$ 20.00 each
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Author: Val Bird Illustrated by Rebecca Cundy
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
In Stock: 1
7.45am Saturday 1st of December: My mother tells me that at three minutes to four o'clock this afternoon; I will have lived in this world for exactly eleven years. "Oh, my goodness, you were such a cute baby," she sighs, then reaches out a hand and ruffles my hair, "I wonder what went wrong." Ozzie did not choose his time of arrival on this earth, but unfortunately turned out to be the first-born male child of his generation. The original Oswald Devon Kingsford was his great-great-great-great grandfather. He was a famous explorer. During the course of his exploits, he kept a journal. After sailing in ships, trekking across deserts, climbing great mountains, and discovering lost tribes - he dropped down dead deep in the Amazon jungle, but not until he wrote this final entry in his journal: 'I beg thee. Do not let my name die with me - my last request is that the first born male child of each generation shall carry my name into the ... more

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9781869439705

A Girl Called Harry order quantity
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Author: Philippa Werry
Published by: Scholastic New Zealand
In Stock: 1
Harry (short for Harriet) is supposed to be having her best year ever at school, but it's not turning out that way. Her brilliantly creative projects aren't always appreciated, and neither is her wild imagination. Then Mallory, the new girl with the unpronounceable surname, turns up, and Harry's imagination really takes off.

 
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