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 | 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 | Reading Level: very good
Uncle Jeremy has been helping the family out for a while now, by dropping off meat he's shot. The offer to go hunting sounds great to fourteen-year-old Wolf - a chance to get away from the family stress. But this hunting trip proves to be more than he bargained for.
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
Fourteen-year-old Beatrice Thomas lives with her widowed mother and younger sister Tilly in a small country town overshadowed by the events of World War One. Many of the local boys, including Beaty's friend Caleb, are away fighting. When Beaty has to leave school, she gets a job as a telegram girl at t ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Series: Ash
A prize-winning, fast-paced thriller that explores love and loss, assumptions and prejudices, truth and fiction, and the many faces of 'family'. Ash McCarthy thinks he finally has it made, revelling in the freedom of being a student. But life is about to take a drastic turn when two police officers knoc ...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: 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
When Greg stands up to his father and achieves his dream of becoming a rally driver, he proves to his parents that he can be as successful as his more academic brother and sister. Greg is the odd one out at home-he doesn't like computers and isn't a brain like the rest of the family. He's bored at scho ...Show more
