How to stop a Kidnap Plot/ Sticking with Pigs

How to Stop a Kidnap Plot

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A high-tech adventure and just a touch of farce.

Michael's payback prank on sworn enemy, Angus, backfires and he finds himself in the school production as a tree. When he overhears a kidnapping plot that suggests Angus is the target, Michael and his friends set out to solve the kidnap mystery.

Read the review here and you will want to read this book. 

Read an excerpt from How to stop a kidnap


Shortlisted for the 2018 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.

Sticking with Pigs

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The offer to go hunting with his Uncle Jeremy sounds great to fourteen-year-old Wolf … a chance to get away from the family stress. 

But this hunting trip proves to be more than he bargained for.

Listen to the author read from her book and explain why she wrote it.

You Tube: Mary-Anne Scott: Sticking With Pigs for OneTree House 

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Shortlisted for the 2018 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.

Jump Crash and Fall

If you could be anywhere in a moment, where would you go? If you could change your appearance in a minute, what would you choose? If you discovered something wrong with this perfect world, what would you do? Action and danger fuel this near-future thriller in a fresh take on technology, identity and the lengths one girl will go to save her best friend. (Allen and Unwin)

Jump is the first book in the Twinmaker series and has been described as a fast paced, action thriller. No need to wait for the next books to be published, Crash and Fall are on the shelves if you enjoyed Jump.

For a review go to Uncertaintales

A Court of Thorns and Roses.

Image: Bloomsbury

Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie who was in the form of a wolf, Feye discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. (Bloomsbury)

If you need more details then read this review or listen to Sarah Maas talk about her book in the video below.

You Tube: Bloomsbury Publishing

One Girl, One Dream - Laura Dekker

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Adventure, courage, strength of character

In 2012, at the age of just 16, Laura Dekker became the youngest sailor ever to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe. In realising her long-held dream, she had not only braved the wild oceans and long weeks of solitude at sea, but also the doubts and sometimes hostile resistance of officials.

In this remarkable account of her incredible journey - for the first time in English - Laura describes in her own words what it is like to sail solo around the world, and the determination it takes to do it at such a young age.

Exciting, awe-inspiring and inspirational, this is a real-life adventure for readers of all ages.(Back cover)

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