An Eagle in the Snow by Michael Morpurgo
$14.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
The powerful new novel from the master storyteller - inspired by the true story of one man who might have stopped World War II. 1940. The train is under attacks from German fighters. In the darkness, sheltering in a railway tunnel, the stranger in the carriage with Barney and his mother tells them a sto ...Show more
The What on Earth Institute of Wonder by Lisa Nicol
$16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Readers
One elephant, one kakapo, one unlicensed teenage driver, one boy waiting for the world to end and one twelve-year-old girl with a very special gift. Sal has always had an affinity with animals – especially the lost kind. And so when a kakapo appears on her windowsill, she befriends it. And when an Afri ...Show more
The Bravest Word by Kate Foster
$18.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
A rescue story of love and trust between a boy and a dog from the talented author of Paws. Do you hear that? You’re Cliff now, and your life is going to get better, I promise. When eleven-year-old Matt finds Cliff, a hurt, neglected dog abandoned in the bush, he knows the brave little pup needs saving. ...Show more
Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star (#1) by Laura Noakes
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Cosima Unfortunate
Exciting, funny, moving – and featuring joyous and authentic disabled representation – Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star is the middle-grade debut of 2023. Cosima Unfortunate has spent all her life at the Home for Unfortunate Girls – a school where any disabled children, or children deemed different, are ...Show more
Rose Campion and the Curse of the Doomstone (#2) by Lyn Gardner
$14.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: The Campion Mysteries | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
Business has never been better for Campion's Palace of Variety and Wonders - and the music hall is about to open its doors to its biggest act yet: the Illustrious Gandini, the stage magician known as the Great Wizard of the North. But when the Doomstone Diamond - a priceless jewel with a disturbing hist ...Show more
The Republic of Birds by Jessica Miller
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
Olga loves the stories of the old cartographers and pores over their ancient books and maps, trying to unlock their secrets. Sometimes, she thinks she can even feel through the maps- almost see into them-as if by magic. But magic is banned in Tsaretsvo, ever since the war with the birds that divided the ...Show more
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Reading Level: very good
'Every page is crowded with invention, both funny and scary' PATRICK NESS 'A tale of unforgettable enchantment' NEW YORK TIMESNobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, raised and educated by ghosts. There are dangers and a ...Show more
The Blue Cat by Ursula Dubosarsky
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
A boy stood in the playground under the big fig tree. 'He can't speak English,' the children whispered. Sydney, 1942. The war is coming to Australia - not only with the threat of bombardment, but also the arrival of refugees from Europe. Dreamy Columba's world is growing larger. She is drawn to Ellery, ...Show more
The Raven's Children by Yulia Yakovleva
$14.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
Russia in 1938 is a place of great terror. Joseph Stalin is in charge. His Secret Police are everywhere, searching for anyone who might be his enemy. People have no idea who they can trust. Seven-year-old Shura doesn't know about any of this. He's happy in his little home in Leningrad going to school i ...Show more
The Orchard Underground by Mat Larkin
$17.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
An explosive, suspenseful and utterly brilliant middle-grade mystery for fans of Louis Sachar's Holes. Not-quite twelve year-old Pri Kohli knows the town of Dunn's Orchard better than anyone. After all, he was the first kid ever to live there. He knows its mysteries (none), its secrets (also none) and ...Show more
Fledgling by Lucy Hope
$14.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
A dark, gothic adventure set deep in a Bavarian forest, with angels and owls and magic and a boy who isn't all that he seems to be... A cherub is blown into Cassie Engel's bedroom during a thunderstorm, triggering a series of terrifying events. Cassie must discover if its arrival was an accident or par ...Show more
The Middler by Kirsty Applebaum
$14.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
The Middler is a gripping story of forbidden friendship, loyalty and betrayal set in a near-future world. 'I was special. I was a hero. I lost the best friend I ever had.' Eleven-year-old Maggie lives in Fennis Wick, enclosed and protected from the outside world by a boundary, beyond which the Quiet W ...Show more