Category: NZ Senior Fiction
A vivid, fast-paced novel about artificial emotional intelligence. Since the death of their mother, Hunter, Millie and Coel have come unstuck. Their father is not coping either, even though he's the successful head of BIOlogic and is developing a humanoid to enhance human lives. He brings home Josie, th ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
Sean has emigrated to New Zealand with his mother from Zimbabwe after the death of his father. He is finding it hard to fit in at school, cope with his grief and his homesickness. He becomes mates with a boy in his class, Mason, who is a mad keen spearo and gradually becomes involved with his family. He ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
“Saying goodbye to the horses they love has become a way of life for Marley and her sisters, who train and sell show jumpers to make their living. Marley has grand ambitions to jump in Pony of the Year, but every good pony she’s ever had has been sold out from under her to pay the bills. Then a half- ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
Marley's new ponies are all potential superstars, but none of them will ever be able to fill the hole that Cruise left in her heart. Lost without him, Marley swears that she will never allow herself to bond with an animal that deeply again. Then a pony comes along who needs Marley's love and understandi ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
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 of local Jews, and after the arrest of his father ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Series: Blood of the Lamb
Maryam fights for her life, freedom and love in this stunning finale to the Blood of the Lamb series. Maryam and Lazarus arrive back at Onewere and Maryam, in trying to loosen the Apostles' religious stranglehold by showing the people the miraculous remedy, is captured. The ruling elite decide to manipu ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
I am outside the law. And I'm coming for you. Cassie has survived a hit and run but now she hears her father has disappeared - supposedly run off with a news reporter. As a senior congressman and Speaker of the House, her father is an important player in the tense world of American politics. Cassi ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
Why do Fin and Danny hate Old Man Wilson so much? And what happens when they decide to take revenge? PAY BACK But there's more to this story than Fin and Danny realise. With a ghost sitting at his table and zombies in the walls, Old Man Wilson is more than a match for two twelve year old boys. Or is he? ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Series: Salt Trilogy | Reading Level: Very Good
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. ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A brand-new edition of the Carnegie Medal-winning THE CHANGEOVER - written by internationally bestselling author, Margaret Mahy. 'A gorgeous, strange, unforgettable story . . . I more than loved it' Laini Taylor - author of Daughter of Smoke and Bone 'A clammy hand pressed Laura down onto her knees be ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Series: Herrick | Reading Level: 8+
In the sequel to 'Too Many Secrets', the Herrick story continues. The Herrick family secrets are all uncovered. Or are they...? Now that Herrick House is all but finished, Becs and her family are returning to the city - and Isaiah is going with them. But as they leave, he alone sees a stranger on the ho ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Series: Riders of Fire
While dragon riders Ezaara and Roberto are on their hand-fasting holiday in Naobia, sinister figures from their pasts threaten to destroy them. Their enemies dog their every wingbeat as they flee north toward the first wave of war. A dark dragon horde with terrifying powers rises over the snowy peaks of ...Show more
