Category: NZ Senior Fiction
'My Dear Mother, Well, I've gone and done it. I've joined the Army! Don't be angry at me, Mother dear. I know you were glad when I wasn't chosen in the ballot. But some of my friends were, and since they will be fighting for King and Country, I want to do the same.' It's New Zealand, 1914, and the bigge ...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 | Reading Level: very good
A gripping novel for young adults that captures both the daring and the everyday realities of serving in the Air Force during the Second World War. Pete and Paul yelled together. 'Bandit! Nine o-clock! Bandit!' Jack spun to stare. There was the Messerschmitt on their left, streaking straight at them. ...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
Life for Sione and his mates at Manawahe East High in South Auckland is pretty sweet - a slice of heaven. But one day when they are in after-school detention there's an emergency. Another school has turned up for a softball game but the Manawahe Junior Boys team has gone AWOL. Sione, TJ, Hieu, Jordan an ...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: The Pilgrim Family
A classic bestseller that's been in print for over 20 years, this gripping YA thriller follows a teenage girl caught in a religious cult. Imagine that your mother tells you she's going away. She is going to leave you with relatives you've never heard of - and they are members of a strict religious cult. ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
Viola was born with a genetic condition that makes sunlight deadly. In the dark of night, when most teenagers are tucked up in bed, Viola has the run of her parents' farm and the surrounding forest. She is used to seeing hidden things through her night-vision goggles, but one night she sees something th ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Series: Battlesaurus
Fifteen-year-old Willem lives in hiding in a small Belgian village on the edge of the great Sonian Forest. Willem and his mother have been living in secret for most of his life since his father, a famous magician, fell out of favour with the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. It is a world not much dif ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Barney Kettle knew he would be a very famous film director one day, he just didn't know when that day would arrive. He was already an actual director--he'd made four fifteen-minute films--but so far only his schoolmates and the residents of the High Street had viewed them. Global fame was a little way o ...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
