Chess Nuts by Julia Lawrinson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
A lighthearted novel for children about the game of chess. Jackson is sporty and popular. Anna doesn't like the sporty, popular people. So when Jackson joins the chess squad, Anna does not initially welcome him. But Anna is about to learn some things about friendship, chess and physical fitness.
A Girl Called Corpse: An Elston-Fright Tale by Reece Carter
$17.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: An Elston-Fright Tale
'Find the thing the Witches call a treasure,' says Old Man, 'and you'll get back all those memories you're missing.' With a body made of wax, seaweed for hair and polished abalone shells for eyes, Corpse is bound to haunt the Witches' sea shack forever. She has no memory of the kid she was before she wa ...Show more
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
$18.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him. A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the no ...Show more
In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen (Geomancer #1) by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
$17.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Geomancer
From bestselling, award-winning author Kiran Millwood Hargrave comes an epic new fantasy about the magic of nature, the lure of power and the strength of love. In the lakes, the wolf queen sharpens her spear. In the mountains, an ancient girl opens an eye. In the forest, an orphan is summoned by the tre ...Show more
The Deadlands: Hunted by Skye Melki-Wegner
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: The Deadlands
"The last surviving dinosaur kingdoms are waging war. Eleri is an oryctodromeus, a small dinosaur raised in an underground warren. He dreams of becoming his herd’s storyteller but when he saves an enemy soldier from a pterosaur attack, he is exiled to the Deadlands. To survive this scorched desert full ...Show more
The Girl & the Galdurian (#1 Lightfall) by Tim Probert
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Lightfall
New York Times bestselling author Kazu Kibuishi says of Lightfall: “Beautifully drawn. Tim Probert has created a world readers will want to visit.” For fans of Amulet and middle grade readers who love sweeping worlds like Star Wars, the first book of the Lightfall series introduces Bea and Cad, two unli ...Show more
This Camp is Doomed (A Dennith Grange Misadventure) by Anna Zobel
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
The wry humour and mystery-solving of Friday Barnes meets the magic of TikTok sensation The House in the Cerulean Sea in this spooky, madcap, hilarious school camp adventure! A run-down camp in the woods. No phone reception. Ten students with untested powers . . . Celine is seeing conspiracies every ...Show more
The School for Thieves (#1 Crookhaven) by J.J. Arcanjo
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Crookhaven
"So this is really a school for criminals." "We are so much more than that. We are a home for the forgotten, a sanctuary for the lost and ... yes, a training ground for the greatest crooks of the future." An irresistible new series about chosen family, high stakes thievery, and what it really means to d ...Show more
Dropping In by Geoff Havel
$14.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
An action-packed middle-grade story that explores friendship, bullying, and living with a disability Ian and Warren, better known as Sticks and Ranga, are best friends. They live on the same street, go to the same school and love the same things, like skateboarding and PlayStation. When new kid James ar ...Show more
Leeva At Last by Sara Pennypacker
$16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Readers
A hilarious and heart-warming new adventure from Sara Pennypacker, the best-selling author of Pax, with illustrations by Caldecott Medal-winner Matthew Cordell Leeva Thornblossom loves to learn: her local newspaper teaches her a new word every day, and soap operas show her the many shades of human expr ...Show more
When Days Tilt by Karen Ginnane
$18.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: TIME CATCHERS
Magic, mystery and darkness - a gripping fantasy adventure for lovers of Philip Pullman's Northern Lights. In this page-turning debut, one girl must figure out why she is the key to two worlds, before time itself falls under the control of the powerful and the greedy. A historical fantasy adventure for ...Show more
Lenny's Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Reading Level: very good
Lenny Spink is the sister of a giant. Her little brother, Davey, suffers from a rare form of gigantism and is taunted by other kids and turned away from school because of his size. To escape their cruel reality, Lenny and Davey obsess over the entries in their monthly installment of Burrell's Build-It-a ...Show more