Young Readers

Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse is the third book in Rick Riordan's bestselling fantasy adventure series. Half Boy. Half God. ALL Hero. It's not every day you find yourself in combat with a half-lion, half-human. But when...

Percy Jackson and The Battle of the Labyrinth is the fourth exciting adventure in Rick Riordan's bestselling series. Half Boy. Half God. ALL Hero. Honestly, blowing up another school was the last thing I wanted to do.As the son of a Greek God, I've...

Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian is the fifth awesome adventure in Rick Riordan's top-ten bestselling series. Half Boy. Half God. ALL Hero. Most people get presents on their sixteenth birthday. I get a prophecy that could save...

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is the first bestselling book in Rick Riordan's phenomenally successful Percy Jackson series. Half boy. Half God. ALL Hero. Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be...

What New Zealand child is not delighted by a rockpool at low tide, with its colourful, fascinating array of creatures, some still, some flitting about?  Rock Pools is a book designed to enhance this experience, with each page...

Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met ... until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't...

Sam and Te Rerehua love to visit their Grandma and Poua at Te Mata Hapuku. They enjoy collecting agate, eeling at the beach and listening to their Grandma's stories as they look up at the stars. One night,...

It was deep mid-winter and all through the village preparations were being made to farewell the old year and greet the new. For the first time ever, the seventh little sister, Ururangi, was big enough to make her...

Sophie Corrigan evokes everyone's inner zoologist in this charmingly illustrated and wittily worded menagerie. Each critter featured in this fun book is tagged with totally fictitious yet comically accurate anatomical labels, from a tree frog's "clingy jazz hands"...