The Scarlet Shedder (#12 Dog Man) by Dav Pilkey
Category: Chapter Books | Series: Dog Man Ser.
P.U.! Dog Man got sprayed by a skunk! After being dunked in tomato juice, the stink is gone but the scarlet red colour remains. Now exiled, this spunky superhero must struggle to save the citizens who shunned him! Will the ends justify the means for Petey, who's reluctantly pulled back into a life of ...Show more
Nine Girls by Stacy Gregg
Category: New Arrivals | Reading Level: middle fiction
Nine Girls is a page-turning adventure from Stacy Gregg, one of Aotearoa's most internationally successful and locally awarded writers.An epic story woven with suspense by Pony Club Secrets and The Princess and the Foal author Stacy Gregg.They dug a hole and they put the box filled with gold inside it.T ...Show more
The Wild Robot Protects (#3 The Wild Robot) by Peter Brown
Category: Chapter Books | Series: The Wild Robot
The enchanting new addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling THE WILD ROBOT series from award-winning author-illustrator Peter Brown, packed full of glorious illustrations.Roz the robot has made an unlikely home for herself on an idyllic island dense with forests, wildflowers and friendly animal inh ...Show more
Finding Bear (HB #2 The Last Bear) by Hannah Gold
Category: Chapter Books
The unmissable follow-up to the phenomenal bestselling and award-winning The Last Bear. Beautifully illustrated by Levi Pinfold and perfect for readers 8+. April Wood has returned home from her adventure on Bear Island. But, over a year later, she can’t stop thinking about Bear.When April hears that a ...Show more
The Grimmelings by Rachael King
Category: Chapter Books
The same evening Josh Underhill went missing, the black horse appeared on the hill above the house. Thirteen-year-old Ella knows that words are powerful. So she should have known better than to utter a wish and a curse on the same day, even in jest. When the boy she has cursed goes missing, in the same ...Show more
The Blunders by David Walliams
Category: Chapter Books
Absurd and hilarious, The Blunders is David Walliams’ funniest book yet – a laugh-out-loud tale of the most blundering and lovable family in history! A hugely entertaining adventure that combines timeless, nonstop comedy, the wild inventiveness of comics, a crumbling old house and a madcap family full ...Show more
Enemy Camp by David Hill
Category: Chapter Books
'We knew straightaway that something was happening. Extra men in khaki uniforms stood at the main gates. Behind the wire, figures in blue sat on the ground. None of the usual moving around, washing up, wrestling, anything like that. Just rows of prisoners, sitting silently.' It's 1942, and the tiny farm ...Show more
The 13-Storey Treehouse (Colour Edition) by Andy Griffiths
Category: Chapter Books
Andy and Terry's 13-storey treehouse is the most amazing treehouse in the world! It's got a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of man-eating sharks, a giant catapult, a secret underground laboratory and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and shoots marshmallows into your ...Show more
The 156-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths
Category: Chapter Books | Reading Level: very good
Andy and Terry are celebrating Christmas in their 156-storey treehouse which now has 13 new storeys, including an aquarium wonderland, a wishing well, a world record breaking level, a TV quiz show hosted by Quizzy the quizzical quizbot, a lost property office, a lost sausage office, a super-stinky stuff ...Show more
Take Me to Your Leader by Leonie Agnew
Category: Chapter Books
Eleven-year-old Lucas has got a new worry to add to his long, long list - his rural school is on the Ministry of Education's list for closure. What's his mum going to do if he and his sister have to start travelling to a school an hour or two away? She can't drive them; she certainly can't afford boardi ...Show more
The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found by Jordan Lees
Category: New Arrivals
Discover a world of magic and secrets, friendship and unimaginable quests in this spectacular new fantasy series from the most exciting new voice in children's books. A boy who doesn't believe in magic. An impossible world that will change his mind. Eleven-year-old Benjamiah Creek believes in science, l ...Show more
Mim and the Vicious Vendetta (The Travelling Bookshop #5) by Katrina Nannestad
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month | Series: The\Travelling Bookshop Ser.
The right book might just change your life ... Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arrived ...Show more