The Seddon Street gang are back. School is closed and Denny, Polly, Bob, Pete and Joe have been packed off to Uncle Ted's farm. There's plenty to do riding, spying and exploring. As they poke their noses where they're not...
NZ and Pacific Novels
- Author:Lasenby, JackSummary:
- Author:Lasenby, JackSummary:
In 1941 there are rumours that the Japanese may invade New Zealand. George's mother decides to send the family to their bach on the east coast of the Coromandel. The children decide that to survive they need to fend for themselves...
- Author:Macdonald, CarolineSummary:
In 2025, in the wake of global environmental devastation, a surviving family encounter a teenage boy from a mysterious hidden community.
- Author:Taylor, WilliamSummary:
Jessie is kidnapped during a bank robbery, and once safe, the robbers leave her in the care of a deeply disturbed 15-year-old boy. She manages to escape but then has to face the trauma of police questioning and later a trial.
- Author:Mahy, MargaretSummary:
Barney, a very shy and imaginative boy, receives supernatural messages and pictures he is afraid to tell anyone about. He eventually learns that he has inherited an ability that may be considered either a rare gift or a despised curse...
- Author:COWLEY, JoySummary:
The pirate Griselda is mean and nasty. She is so mean that the Mayor of Crossbones has devised an evil plan to hold the annual pirates' treasure hunt a month early while she is still sailing the high seas. Griselda has got wind of...
- Author:Gee, MauriceSummary:
A New Zealand story about the budding relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and a black American soldier during the summer of 1943.
- Author:BILBROUGH, NormanSummary:
Toby, Rebecca and Sandra are on holiday north of Auckland when a woman from another time begins to communicate with them through an old photograph. Sceptical at first, the three are gradually drawn into the quest to find a new leader...
- Author:LASENBY, JackSummary:
When the gang discover that a flood has turned the creek into a lake with an island, they set about building canoes and a fort; but unknown to them, they are being watched. The third book in the Seddon Street Gang series. Suggested...
- Author:HILL, DavidSummary:
Rob is an experienced tramper. Usually he'd look forward to a week in the bush but three terrible months have left him feeling confused and alone. When things go wrong he can't stop his party of six teenagers from plunging...
- Author:FALKNER, BrianSummary:
Jacob is a normal everyday sort of kid until he discovers he has a suprising ability. Now Jacob must decide how he uses his new-found talent. Will he be a super-hero or a super-villain? But there is a lot of pressure on Jacob: his...
- Author:MACLEAN, GlynneSummary:
Joshua Carter is alarmed to discover Roivan, a member of a telepathic, telekinetic and amphibian species, stowing away on his ship. Joshua must discover where she is from and what she wants.
- Author:Anderson, BabaraSummary:
A wickedly funny story of family love and betrayal which moves from the world of do-it-yourself property development in 1990s Auckland to the fabric mills and fashion showrooms of Milan.
- Author:JONES, V. M.Summary:
Adam's home at Highgate is crashing down around his ears, and in the fantasy world of Shakesh a mistake is having disastrous consequences. Adam and his friends must return to Shakesh, find the lost Prince of the Wind and overthrow...
- Author:FORD, VinceSummary:
Connor's cousin is making big money trapping possums, so Davin and the gang set up a possum-trapping base at Camp Isolation. Unfortunately, a poisoning programme, a rogue storm, rising rivers and a possum-hugging greenie threaten...
- Author:CLARKIN, BrendanSummary:
Brett is off to school camp at last. When he hears how Pirate's Cove Camp got its name, he can't help wondering if any of the rumours are true. He and his friends start to investigate and soon become embroiled with ghosts,...
- Author:TAYLOR, WilliamSummary:
Tricked by his horrid neighbour Alice, Charlie must submit to her experimental learning machine, which proves so successful that it almost backfires on Alice. Sequel to: Knitwits.
- Author:Gee, MauriceSummary:
For Susan and Nick the adventure at last seems at an end. They are leaving the magical land of O. But even as they prepare to step back to Earth strange evil forces reach out to ensnare them.
- Author:BEALE, FleurSummary:
When Lacey's family moves to the countryside she must leave her friends and the conveniences of the city and adjust to country life, living in a ramshackle house, going to a school with only boys in her class and playing rugby.
- Author:CATRAN, KenSummary:
A tale about a young Chinese girl and an Irish lad who are drawn to the Otago goldfields in the 1860s in the hope of striking it rich.