Auckland Council Libraries: Fiction for kids by Auckland authors

Fiction for kids by Auckland authors

​Taniwha clash with cruel governments, yeti hunters roam mountains and dangerous spells threaten lives in these exciting children’s stories by Auckland writers.

All is lost

James Russell

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The Pitbull is furious. His evil plans to capture the dragons on Flynn and Paddy's paradise island have come to nothing. And now his niece, Briar, has joined forces with the brothers. The fourth novel in the best-selling Dragon Defenders series.

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Groovy fish and other poems

Paula Green

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Author of the award-winning Letterbox Cat, Paula Green's bright new poems have grown out of titles collected from her fans: the children who follow her online at Poetry Box and curl up inside the covers of her books.

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The International Yeti Collective

Paul Mason

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Ella is on a yeti-hunting expedition with her uncle, but she doesn’t believe they exist. Tick is a young yeti who wonders how bad humans really are. Can the unlikely pair work together to protect the yeti before it’s too late?

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Josefa and the Vu

Tulia Thompson

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When Josefa is met by a giant mysterious warrior claiming to be an ancestral guardian spirit, everything gets chaotic. Meanwhile, the school bully has stolen his family's sacred tabua. To get it back, Josefa must embark on a terrifying adventure.

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The last fallen star

Graci Kim

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After thirteen-year-old Hattie Oh casts a dangerous spell so her adopted sister, Riley, will get a share of her inherited magic, Riley must undertake a near-impossible quest to save Hattie from death.

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Lizard's tale

Weng Wai Chan

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It's Singapore in 1940, war is just around the corner. When Lizard steals a small teak box containing a Japanese code book from a Raffles Hotel suite, he finds himself in a dangerous world of wartime espionage.

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The memory thief

Leonie Agnew

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Stella, a fierce, spiky girl and Seth, a lonely troll, form an unlikely alliance in Leonie Agnew's extraordinary novel. What terrible memory is Stella trying to escape? What are the fragments of memory that Seth is trying to put together?

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The pōrangi boy

Shilo Kino

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The government plans to build a prison in Niko’s town and destroy the home of its taniwha. He is called crazy for believing in the taniwha, but he knows that telling the truth is the only way of stopping the destruction.

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Power up

Peter Millett

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One day Tana and his mates are zapped by lightning on a footy field and transformed into a team of heroes known as The Invincibles. But the clock is ticking... they have 80 minutes before its game over and their powers vanish!

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Spark Hunter

Sonya Wilson

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Nissa Marshall knows that something is hiding deep in the forests of Fiordland National Park - she's seen their lights in the trees. But what are they, and why does no one else seem to notice them?

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Sugar and spice

Stacy Gregg

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Spellbound Stables has been bound by magic and the ponies are trapped in time. Can two brave girls break the spell and restore the stable to its former glory?

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Tui street heroes

Anne Kayes

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The Tui Street kids find themselves in adventures more difficult than they could possibly imagine. Who can help when you're threatened with vicious creatures that are meant to be extinct or people who don't care whether you live or die?

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When Bo Bimble went elsewhere

Sue Copsey

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The bimbles live a quiet, nervous existence in their hidden Fiordland valley. Except for one. Bo Bimble is different. When she learns about a predator fence that will cut them off from the land beyond, she sets off to visit before it's too late.

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