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Cody's Unexpected Catch by Des Hunt
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children
Cody and Wiri are surprised to find their whitebait is actually redbait and greenbait and purplebait. But bigger surprises are in store when a stranger comes to the beach and their holiday turns deadly. An outdoors adventure, featuring colour illustrations, for readers aged 7 to 10 years from the au ...Show more
Cool Nukes by Des Hunt
$18.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle
Take one cutting-edge science professor. Add two shocking laboratory explosions. Mix in an avalanche of cryptic messages and three science-geek students-and you have the recipe for a nuclear device that could solve all of humankind's energy problems! Max, Jian Xin and Cleo are making something spectacul ...Show more
Cry of the Taniwha by Des Hunt
$19.00 NZD
$19.99 (4% off)
Category: Fiction - middle
Matt Logan isn't looking forward to spending the school holidays with his grandmother and her new husband. He has to fly to Rotorua, where he doesn't know anybody, and he's a bit wary of his new step-grandfather. All Matt knows is that he's Maori and a bus driver. Along with his worries, Matt packs his ...Show more
Frog Whistle Mine by Des Hunt
$17.00 NZD
$19.99 (14% off)
Category: New Zealand titles - children
Set in Charleston, a gold-mining ghost town 30km south of Westport, Frog Whistle Mine is another of Des Hunt's trademark exciting, beautifully written contemporary action adventure stories for children, with ecological themes. Twelve-year-old Tony has lived all around New Zealand, travelling with his no ...Show more
Project Huia by Des Hunt
$19.50 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle
As children, Logan's grandfather and his sister Mavis spotted a beautiful and unusual bird in the kowhai tree outside their house: it was a huia, which was believed to be extinct. In an attempt to photograph it they tracked it deep into the Manawatu Gorge. This was a dangerous journey, made even more s ...Show more
Red Edge by Des Hunt
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle
Twelve-year-old Cassi Whelan and her dad have just moved into a repaired house on the edge of Christchurch's Red Zone. Although Cassi was only four when earthquakes decimated Christchurch, her memories still haunt her. An obsessive runner, she finds the wide-open spaces of the cleared Red Zone suit her ...Show more
Search for a Kiwi Killer by Des Hunt
$22.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle
Kerikeri is kiwi country. There the flightless birds live in common places like farms, sides of roads, and pine forests. There are signs everywhere saying dogs must be on leads. When dead kiwi are found in nearby Waitangi forest, it becomes clear that someone is ignoring the signs. A kiwi killer is on t ...Show more
Steel Pelicans by Des Hunt
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle
Inseparable best friends Dean and Pelly frequently get up to no good. Dean is a dare-devil, and Pelly always seems to end up going along for the ride. Dean's amateur bomb-making is one step too far, and is soon followed by a bombshell of another sort: Pelly's parents are shifting the family back to New ...Show more
Sunken Forest by Des Hunt
$18.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle
Sent to live with his grandmother in Hastings after his father is jailed, Matt becomes the victim of bad friends and false accusations. Sent off on a military-style school camp to the wilds of Lake Waikaremoana, Matt again gets in trouble for something he didn't do, and is unjustly punished. Not allowed ...Show more
The Crocodile Nest by Des Hunt
$19.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Reading Level: good
Luke Evans never knew his father - he'd cleared out before he was born. So when his internet skills track down someone living at a luxurious resort in tropical Queensland who could be his dad, Luke's imagination runs wild. What happens when they finally meet is unexpected, and shocks him to the core. Lu ...Show more
The Last Tuatara by Des Hunt
$19.50 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle
In a large valley lies a geographical feature known as Jelly Mountain. It's called that because of its shape - rather like a jelly having been popped out of its mould. Its straight sides mean the top has never been explored and there are many rumours about strange creatures inhabiting it. Efforts to exp ...Show more
The Peco Incident by Des Hunt
$19.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children
Danny is dreading the summer holiday visit by his hyper cousin, Nick. There is no predicting what Nick will get up to, especially when he's off his Ritalin. However, Nick proves to be the least of Danny's problems when bird flu hits the Otago Peninsula. At first it seems that only the local sparrows are ...Show more