Young Readers

The Mythix are united at last. Together they can take on the Collector. Together they will be unstoppable. Well ... that's the theory anyway.When the Collector commits a crime so terrible that it threatens all of humanity, will...

The king of beasts and the lord of birds, together once more,will know a third companion, as the days grow dim. The Unicorn, the Minotaur and the Griffin are united at last. Surely together they will be unstoppable!But...

The second laugh-out-loud adventure for brilliant inventor Leonora Bolt. Leonora isn't supposed to be building a submarine in a tree. Or turning the local wildlife luminous. In fact, she is supposed to be keeping her head down and...

"A thick blanket of snow covers Jack and Tom's farm - trapping the sheep on the hill.  With the help of a bulldozer, a helicopter and a few friends, the sheep are snow-raked down to the lower paddocks...

"It's that time of year again in the small town of Winding Creek - it's time for the annual A and P Show!  Follow Jack, Tom and their family and friends as they all compete in different events...

"Join the two farm dogs, Jack the huntaway and Tom the heading dog, as they both work hard to help out the farmer during a busy day shearing sheep on a high country farm in New Zealand." Size...

Always keen to help out, Jack and Tom answer the call for help from the dairy farmer up the road.  His worker is sick so he needs a hand for the day.  So join Jack and Tom as...

Hooray - big farm machines are arriving at Jack and Tom's farm!  They are going to harvest the grain, mow and bale hay and make some silage so the sheep and cattle at Winding Creek Station have enough...

There is a new arrival at Winding Creek Station!  The farmer has bought a new stag from a sale to go out with his hinds.  But a bad storm rolls in one night and a fence comes down,...

"It's raining cats and dogs at Winding Creek Station! Jack the huntaway and Tom the heading dog are helping the farmer and their neighbour Duncan during the flood to keep the stock on their farms safe. While Jack...

An hilarious story about sibling rivalry and a child's impulse to run away from home-(and come back again!)"When my squawking baby brother arrived, I realised I needed a new family. No one seemed to mind when I packed...

Nanny Mihi's grandchildren excitedly visit her every school holidays. Only this time they arrive with colds... Nanny takes the kids around her forest and garden, showing them plants that can make themfeel better. They find kawakawa and make...

Persephone, young goddess of spring, is new to Olympus. Her mother, Demeter, has raised her in the mortal realm, but after Persephone promises to train as a sacred virgin, she's allowed to live in thefast-moving, glamorous world of...

As the train Wolf Girl is driving hurtles towards the locked gates of an enemy city, the last thing Gwen expects to see out the window is her long lost sister! Soon the pack are on an epic...

This beautiful tabbed board book features 8 playful and accessible mindfulness exercises to calm little bodies and minds. This large tabbed board book features 8 simple exercises to guide children through the day from morning stretches to bedtime...

Eddie Woo Super Sleuth is ready for action and mystery. With a mind for maths and a nose for adventure, he is about to skateboard into ... danger. When Eddie receives a cryptic message from Mr Appleby, a...

Roald Dahl's much-loved story with Quentin Blake's original illustrations in full colour, ahead of the major Steven Spielberg film adaptation in 2016. 'Human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we...

A thrilling equestrian novel to delight all fans of the Wilson sisters, inspired by true events - 17-year-old Amanda's nail-biting bid to win the top national Pony of the Year competition. Viking is the pony of Amanda's dreams,...

Weird?! Nothing weird ever happens in the Bad Guys. Like, you would never see a chainsaw monster confronting a velociraptor who has eaten an elderly piranha, or the disturbing antics of a deranged dentist running amok with an...

Kuwi is a young and confused kiwi who has found herself alone with her newly laid egg. She has never had an egg before... A funny and heart-warming story for the early learner. Kuwi is an endangered brown...

Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. An LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between. Charlie didn't think Nick could ever like him back, but now they're officially boyfriends. Nick's...

Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. An LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the second volume of the bestselling HEARTSTOPPER series.

Young Joe is living in pre-WWII Berlin, with his British father and NZ mother, attending school and witnessing the excitement of his friends who are enthusiastically joining the Hitler Youth Movement. Joe feels uncomfortable with the growing mistreatment...

Winner of the prestigious Swedish August Prize 2020. A bright, contemporary and fearless novel about an ordinary extraordinary eleven-year-old trying to win back her best friend and get her mother to stop sighing. Cricket Karlsson is going to...