Squishy Taylor and the Mess-Makers

Summary:  An apartment full of questions on a street full of mysteries. What's the best way to sneak onto a film set? Why do grown-ups trust you more when you're carrying a baby? Is a pizza even a pizza without mozzarella? What do you do when everyone hates your hero? (Back cover)

The bold ship phenomenal

New Zealand author
Summary: Malachi's life is dull, dull, dull. Dad's always busy and school is dreary, especially science. Then Malachi finds a mysterious bottle on the seashore, and things start to get exciting. What he discovers inside the bottle sends Malachi on the journey of his life. But pirates, smugglers, police and a grumpy pig soon have Malachi regretting his thirst for adventure. There are battles to be won, and the only one who can fight them is Malachi. Can he save himself and the bottle? And what about the pig

The knot impossible : Rufkin's travels in four parts : a tale of Fontania

New Zealand author
Summary: Rufkin must learn to try harder. He is sent to work in a salvage yard, where vicious cave lizards lurk in the mud, among rusting ship hulks saved for scrap. When he hears a small voice cry elp!from the riverbank mangroves, Rufkin and his reluctant new neighbour, Nissy, are caught up in a perilous sea adventure that threatens to bring the end-of-days. Rufkin, the boy who suffers stage-fright, is suddenly centre stage: the only one who can right an ancient wrong and save the kingdom. (Publisher)

Dogfight

Summary: Our hero is Claude D'Bonair, a young pilot in the cat air corp, keen to prove his worth to the older pilots and live up to the memory of his father. Will cats and dogs ever live in harmony again? Will Claude survive with his nine lives intact? In Book 1: Dogfight, Claude must fly a secret and dangerous mission deep into the heart of Dogz held territory to save the air corp's most famous dogfighter, Major Tom, who is being held prisoner in the Dogz castle HQ. If he fails it could spell cat-astrophe for the whole of katdom

First to the top : Sir Edmund Hillary's Amazing Everest Adventure

Summary: How did Ed, a small, shy boy from New Zealand, grow up to become the world's most famous mountaineer and adventurer? How did he climb Everst and do so many other astonishing things? This book tells the story of Sir Edmund Hillary and his climb to the top of Mt Everest

Nibbles the book monster

Includes giant flaps and peek through holes
Summary: Nibbles, the book eating monster, has nibbled his way out of his own book and now he's causing mischief and mayhem in other people's stories

Their Great Gift: Courage, Sacrifice, and Hope in a New Land

Summary: Explores the experiences of immigrants in the twenty-first century, focusing on the lives of children. Images of families who went to the United States from many different parts of the world celebrate the diversity of the United States

Finding Monkey Moon

Summary: Michael and Monkey Moon are inseparable - especially when it's time for bed. But one night Monkey Moon is nowhere to be found and Michael's search for him goes way beyond the toy box

Clarrie's pig day out

Summary: Clarrie is a farmer who sometimes gets his words mixed up. So when he jumps in his car it's bound to be a day filled with surprises and adventure

Hush: a kiwi lullaby

Summary: The traditional lullaby 'Hush Little Baby', retold with a strong New Zealand flavour. A baby is promised a series of items including a woolly sheep, kowhai flowers and singing tui