Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction

Ten year old Amelia loves dogs, and wishes more than anything she could have a puppy of her own, but her mother says it's not the right time.

Excitement spreads like bush through the jungle.

Discover how maps are essential to finding our way around the world in this educational series.

** Winner of the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year 1990** A classic junior fiction favourite from multi-award winning New Zealand children's author, Joy Cowley.

Join Max and Sofia, two kids trying to save the environment one problem at a time with their magical sailboat.

Superfrog is back on another urgent mission - rubbish from the big, grey city is polluting his pond!

When Lizzie's dad refuses to fight in the Second World War, the police come looking to arrest him.

Thomas is desperate to join 'the players', he'll do anything to watch them perform, even skip school and risk a caning.

The only life Gioga has ever known is that of a fisherman's daughter on remote Hamna Voe.

Is love worth dying for?

Danny Dawson lives in the middle of the Australian outback.

A Netflix animated series - Autumn 2021!

Kip's dad owns an old-fashioned cinema, the Paramount.

Buried treasure.

Lettie Peppercorn lives in a house on stilts near the wind-swept coast of Albion.

Will Gallows, a young elfling sky cowboy, rides out on a perilous quest to bring the evil snake-bellied troll bandit, Noose Wormworx, to justice.

Furgul is a puppy born in a slave camp for racing greyhounds.

The Colonel, owner of Follyfoot, the Home of Rest for Horses, has been ill and has to go away to convalesce.

'We're the rubbish kids, losers and orphans.

It was a mistake for Ben to tell the Hunter that there were still wolves in Surrey.

'Are you frightened of dying, Issy?

Inspired by Gulliver's Travels, Lilliput is an exhilarating adventure filled with cunning escape plans, evil clockmakers and very talkative parrots.

A small boy imagines all the wild pets he could get, from an enormous bear to a fiery dragon!

The exciting adventures of Robin and his merry men, who stole from the rich, and gave to the poor, while dodging the proud Sheriff of Nottingham, are timeless, and entertaining.

With over 140 of Aesop's fables in this book, readers can dip in and enjoy stories that have been passed down through the ages by listeners, and writers well into Christian times.

A bestselling summer read as heartbreaking as The Lovely Bones and as gripping as Jenny Downham's Before I Die.

A gripping futuristic thriller, perfect for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES, DIVERGENT and Bella ForrestDO YOU POSSESS A WINNING COMBINATION OF KNOWLEDGE, PRACTICAL SKLLS AND INTELLIGENCE?

When Bobby Pendragon arrives on the territory of Quillan, he discovers a whole new meaning to the word competition!

The struggle for good versus evil continues as Bobby Pendragon follows the demon, Saint Dane, to the territory of Zadaa, home of the Traveller, Loor.

Just when Bobby Pendragon thinks he finally understands his purpose as a Traveller he is faced with an impossible choice.

The adventure continues as Bobby Pendragon hits the territory of Veelox and discovers the ultimate virtual reality.

Eleven-year-old Joy Wells is a literary horror fan and proud resident of Spooking, the run-down, eerie town at the top of the hill.

Joy Wells is fascinated by the strange noises coming from the abandoned Spooking Asylum.

All in Neversuch House is not well.

Neversuch House is home to the veryunusual Halibut family.

Jess and Pia are stuck at home revising, while all their friends from Porchester Park jet off on glamorous holidays.

A pop diva comes to live at Porchester Park and is involved in a modelling competition.

t's the end of term and Jess is excited about all the new faces due to arrive at Number 1, Porchester Park for the holidays.

Jess Hall's dad is the new general manager at Porchester Park, and is moving Jess, her brother and pet cat into a staff apartment there.

Ever since she started at Hectate "e;Hex"e; Hall a school for "e;gifted"e; students Sophie Mercer's life has been a whirlwind of disasters.

Sophie Mercer's first term at Hex Hall turned out to be quite eventful.

In the wake of a love spell gone horribly wrong, Sophie Mercer, a sixteen-year-old witch, is shipped off to Hecate Hall, a boarding school for witches, shapeshifters and faeries.

Around a hidden lake in the mountains is a perfect place.

At last there is peace in the city.

Something is coming something big.

Karen DeSonne always passed as a normal teenager - and now that she' dead, she's still passing - this time, as alive.

A powerful YA romance about the forbidden love between a girl and a fallen angel.

Sam and Callum are still stranded in the parallel world, having been pulled across by the dangerous energy of the Bermuda Triangle.

The Bermuda Trianglehas cast a shadow over Sam and Niamh Cutlers' lives since their mother vanished nine years ago.

Wally has chicken-pox and is desperate not to miss his best friend's birthday party - and Foulpest reckon he knows exactly how to make him better.