New Middle Fiction (Boys 9-12 Years)
Book Of Three The Chronicles Of Prydain Book One
$16.99 – Paperback book / Usborne
This is a new edition of the first book of the classic "Newbury" award winning epic fantasy series full of action, humour, valour and excitement. Taran is desperate for adventure, something in short supply for a lowly as... Buy or find out more →
Monster Troubletwisters Two
$9.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Last time, twins Jaide and Jack defeated The Evil with luck and intuition. This time they must truly master their powers as troubletwisters. The second exciting, mysterious instalment in the series, from fantasy masters ... Buy or find out more →
Secret Breakers Power Of Three
$14.99 – Paperback book / Hachette Livre
Imagine the chance to solve the Voynich Manuscript - a puzzle that has truly defeated adults for centuries.
It's an ancient manuscript no one has ever been able to decipher. And there are Rules that say it is forbidden t... Buy or find out more →
Kane Chronicles: Serpent's Shadow
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
When young magicians Carter and Sadie Kane learned how to follow the path of the Ancient Egyptian gods, they knew they would have to play an important role in restoring Ma#146;at#151;order#151;to the world. What they did... Buy or find out more →
Ash Mistry And The Savage Fortress
$14.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Varanasi: holy city of the Ganges.
In this land of ancient temples, incense and snake charmers...
Where the monsters and heroes of the past come to life...
One slightly geeky boy from our time...
IS GOING TO KICK SOME DE... Buy or find out more →
13th Horseman
$14.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
The first hilarious book in Barry’s AFTERWORLDS sequence. Drake has just met the Horsemen of the Apocalypse but is that really the end of the world? Pratchett meets Python in this dark comic fantasy with plenty of action... Buy or find out more →
Palace Of The Damned
$14.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Lost in the arctic waste, carrying a baby whose love he could never deserve, Larten faces the darkest time he has ever known.
But hope has a way of shining through even the smallest of cracks, and just as Larten reaches ... Buy or find out more →
Red
$15.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A gripping mystery unfolds in the aftermath of a devastating cyclone that leaves a young girl unable to remember her name or where she comes from ... Vivid, compelling writing from popular, multi-award winning author Lib... Buy or find out more →
The Silver Door: Three Doors Book Two
$16.99 – Paperback book / Omnibus Books
The Silver Door is the second book in Rodda’s Three Doors trilogy. Rye, Sonia, Dirk and Faene journey back to Weld, planning to leave Faene in safety there while they set off on their second adventure.
Rye thinks that ... Buy or find out more →
Just Doomed!
$12.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
It's been five long years since Just Shocking! was published.
Just Doomed!, the next fabulous JUST title from the creative genius of Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, is destined to be one of the greatest JUST titles yet.... Buy or find out more →
Conspiracy 365: #4 April Code Black Edition
$14.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic
On New Year's Eve, Callum Ormond is chased down the street by a crazed man with a deadly warning: They killed your father. They'll kill you. You must survive the next 365 days! A high-speed chase has gone horribly wrong ... Buy or find out more →
Last Dragon Chronicles 7: Fire Ascending
$17.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
Guaranteed to be incredible, fantastical and the ultimate page-turner, this final title in The Last Dragon Chronicles brings together the amazing characters and wonderful worlds that Chris d'Lacey has drawn on throughout... Buy or find out more →
Down The Rabbit Hole An Echo Falls Mystery
$16.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
This is the first in a compelling detective series from Stephen King's "favourite American suspense novelist". When Ingrid accidentally leaves her favourite football sneakers at a murder scene, she is sucked into a myste... Buy or find out more →
Other Brother
$18.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
Kieran wants to be part of the in-group at school. He wants to be on the football team. He wants to fit in. But then his cousin Bon turns up. Bon doesn’t know anything about fitting in – he looks different, he wears the ... Buy or find out more →
Hank Zipzer 1: The World's Greatest Underachiever
$11.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
According to ten-year-old Hank Zipzer, there are many reasons why he shouldn't have to do homework, e.g. every pen he owns has run out of ink, his thoughts are controlled by alien beings, he's allergic to lined paper...O... Buy or find out more →
Ghost Club Book One: The New Kid
$15.95 – Paperback book / Black Dog Books Kids
Angeline and Edgar might be kids, but they're also two of Ghost Club's youngest ghost-catchers. Got a problem with a ghost, poltergeist or ghoul? Can't sleep because of all the rattling chains and cackling laughter? Ange... Buy or find out more →
A Boy And A Bear In A Boat
$23.95 – Hardcover book / Doubleday
A boy and a bear go to sea, equipped with a suitcase, a comic book and a ukulele. They are only travelling a short distance and it really shouldn't take long. But then their boat encounters 'unforeseeable anomalies'...
F... Buy or find out more →
Animal Rescue One: Elephant Alert
$5.00 – Paperback book / Black Dog Books Kids
Mozz soars through the sky in a jet, rescuing wild animals around the world. But when Elephant Island is under threat from a deadly wave Mozz needs help urging the elephants to move! Time is running out! Can she convince... Buy or find out more →
Zero To Hero
$13.95 – Paperback book / Frances Lincoln
Simon - Zero to his older brothers - would rather be watching for kingfishers down at the river with his dog Tilly than playing football. But when they drag him along to the park to help with goal-shooting practice, they... Buy or find out more →
Bureau Of Mysteries
$15.95 – Paperback book / Random House
In the bustling city of Little Obscurity, George Feather lives a fairly uneventful life. That is, until he falls down a chimney and discovers the Bureau of Mysteries, an eccentric group of investigators and codebreakers ... Buy or find out more →
Okay For Now
$23.95 – Hardcover book / Clarion Press
As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him. So begins a coming-of-age masterwork full of equal parts comedy ... Buy or find out more →
Keeper Of The Realms: Crow's Revenge
$16.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
'I've just had a flesh-eating giant tearing around my house and now I'm in this strange land I don't know anything about!'
CHARLIE KEEPER has been forced from her home by a bloodthirsty and terrifying stranger.
But in es... Buy or find out more →
Shadow Of The Hawk Wereworld
$16.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
DREW FERRAN, THE RIGHTFUL KING OF WESTLAND, IS TRAPPED.
Enslaved by the Goatlord Kesslar, young werewolf Drew finds himself on the volcanic isle of Scoria, forced to fight in the arena for the Lizardlords. With the help ... Buy or find out more →
Conspiracy 365 February Code Black Edition
$14.99 – Paperback book / Black Dog Books Kids
On New Year's Eve, Callum Ormond is chased down the street by a crazy man with a deadly warning: They killed your father. They'll kill you. You must survive the next 365 days! Now he's a hunted fugitive who'll do anythin... Buy or find out more →
Tales Of The Blue Jade One Ghost Of Ping Ling
$17.99 – Paperback book /
A fire in a temple, an orphan running for his life. But is Dillen running away from, or towards, his destiny? A mysterious Easterner has sent Dillen on a simple quest: find the sorcerer Hallegat and serve him well. But f... Buy or find out more →
Ashtown Burials 1: Dragons Tooth
$16.95 – Paperback book / Random House
For two years, Cyrus and Antigone Smith have run a sagging roadside motel with their older brother, Daniel. Nothing ever seems to happen. Then a strange old man with bone tattoos arrives, demanding a specific room. Less ... Buy or find out more →
My Big Mouth Ten Songs I Wrote That Almost Got Me Killed
$24.99 – Hardcover book /
A hilarious illustrated novel by Peter Hannan -- writer, artist, & producer.
Davis Delaware is not from Delaware. But try telling that to everyone at his new school. When you move in the middle of ninth grade, people... Buy or find out more →
The One And Only Ivan
$14.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Ivan is an easy-going gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, h... Buy or find out more →
Tom Gates: #2 Excellent Excuses And Other Good Stuff
$15.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic
No school for two whole weeks! (Yeah!) I can forget ALL about lessons (and irritating things like Marcus Meldrew). And concentrate on good stuff like: inventing new ways to annoy my sister Delia. (So many). Band practice... Buy or find out more →
Grashkor The Beast Guard Beast Quest Bumper 9
$15.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
Tom's best friend, Elenna, has been kidnapped by evil Malvel! Grashkor the Beast Guard is holding her prisoner in his dark prison - the Chamber of Pain! Can Tom rescue her from Grashkor's deadly clutches? Buy or find out more →
Slayer Chronicles First Kill
$14.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Joss McMillan’s perfect life crashes down the night he witnesses his sister’s murder — at the hands of a vampire. He then finds out his family’s secret heritage: They are part of the Slayer Society, a group whose mission... Buy or find out more →
Joshua Files: #4 Dark Parallel
$16.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic
Josh and Ixchel have travelled back in time, but it might not be so easy to get home again. They've landed in the Mayan era, when the prophecy about the world ending in 2012 was first foretold. And they cannot believe wh... Buy or find out more →
39 Clues Part 2: #2 A King's Ransom
$17.99 – Hard back / Scholastic
The hunt continues in this "New York Times" best-selling series. Buy or find out more →
Diary Of A Cricket God
$9.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Marcus Atkinson is a cricket god (not!). But his dad is convinced that Marcus has magic in his wrists.
Marcus is a Maths whiz who is not good at sport. His dad is a self-help author who thinks Marcus can achieve anything... Buy or find out more →
Diary Of A Soccer Star
$9.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Marcus Atkinson is a soccer star (not!). But his dad is convinced that Marcus has magic in his feet.
Marcus is a Maths whiz who is not good at sport. His dad is a self-help author who thinks Marcus can achieve anything h... Buy or find out more →
Adventures Of Nanny Piggins
$5.00 – Paperback book / Random House
Nanny Piggins, the world's most glamorous flying pig, runs away from the circus and goes to live with the Greens as their nanny. The Green children, Derrick, Samantha and Michael, fall in love with her instantly. Who cou... Buy or find out more →
Tunnels Of Tarcoola
$14.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Come round here!' called David. 'We've found something.' 'I'm showing them.' Andrea pushed him aside. 'It's my cave!' She lowered herself into the hole. Her head disappeared, and a moment later they heard her voice, fain... Buy or find out more →
Nanny Piggins and the Rival Ringmaster
$15.95 – Paperback book / Random House
In book five of her enthralling adventures, Nanny Piggins discovers some startling truths about the ruthless Ringmaster, provides counselling to a Moldovan princess with pre-wedding jitters, inadvertently wins a Nobel Pr... Buy or find out more →
Saga Of Larten Crepsley 2: Ocean Of Blood
$14.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Free from their mentor Seba Nile, Larten Crepsley and Wester Flack join the Cubs -- wild young vampires with little respect for human life, and a taste for mindless enjoyment. For the Cubs, everything is easy. But nothin... Buy or find out more →
Stories Of The Wild West Gang
$19.99 – Paperback book / Gecko
Country of Origin: New Zealand Michael's aunt, uncle and cousins are moving to his neighbourhood and he can't wait. Wherever they go, adventure follows! They're the wacky Wild West Gang. Buy or find out more →
3:15 Season One: Things That Go Bump In The Night
$17.99 – Hard back / Scholastic
3:15 means several things. It's a time when things go bump in the night. A place where spooky stories find a home. A feeling ... that chill running down your spine. It means 10 terrifying tales that you'll experience in ... Buy or find out more →
Wolven: #3 Bad Wolf Rising
$14.99 – Paperback book / Chicken House
Nat Carver and his wolven buddy Woody learn that hybrid wolf Lucas Scale has risen from the ruins of Helleborine Halt and is 'recruiting' an army to carry out his plans to become the next Prince of Darkness. Soon, newbor... Buy or find out more →
Monsieur Cadichon: Memoirs Of A Donkey
$16.99 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster
Translated by Stephanie Smee.
Monsieur Cadichon is a lively and intelligent donkey who wants his readers to know that although he was naughty in his youth and was punished severely, he is now reformed. His main aim is to... Buy or find out more →
Cabin Fever: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid #6
$14.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged, and Greg is the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is, he's innocent. Or at least sort of.
The authorities are closing in, but when a surprise blizzard hi... Buy or find out more →
Gangsta Granny
$19.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
A story of prejudice and acceptance, funny lists and silly words, this new book has all the hallmarks of David′s previous bestsellers.
Our hero Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandma′s house... Buy or find out more →
War Horse (Film Tie-In)
$16.95 – Paperback book / Egmont Books
This is a stunning wartime classic. In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from his bac... Buy or find out more →
Conspiracy 365 January Code Black Edition
$9.99 – Paperback book /
New CODE BLACK editions, which include clues and codes to crack, plus 4 pages of colour movie stills,will be released every month in 2012. On New Year's Eve Cal is chased down the street by a staggering, sick man with a ... Buy or find out more →
Johnny Mackintosh Battle For Earth
$16.99 – Paperback book / Quercus
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again
$14.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
The first ever sequel to Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, written by bestselling author Frank Cottrell Boyce and endorsed by the Fleming family.
When the Tooting family find a vast abandoned engine and fit it to th... Buy or find out more →
The New Cut Gang
$27.95 – Hardcover book / David Fickling
Thunderbolt, Benny, Bridie and Sharky Bob are a mixed bunch of vagabonds and urchins who come together to form the New Cut Gang in two comic tales of stolen silver, skulduggery and desperadoes.
Fake coins are turning up ... Buy or find out more →
Killer Koalas From Outer Space
$19.99 – Hardcover book / Pan Macmillan
This is a very silly book filled with very bad things.
There are bad ideas like eating dead flies, and silly people like the boy who unscrews his head and loses it forever. Then there are very bad things like bloodsuckin... Buy or find out more →
How To Steal A Dragon's Sword
$16.99 – Paperback book / Hachette Livre
The story continues in the ninth volume of Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs.Bad times have come to the Archipelago. Ever since the woods of Berserk burned down, it is almost as if the world is cursed. Dragons ar... Buy or find out more →
Darius Bell And The Crystal Bees
$15.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
The bees on the Bell estate are dying. There'll be no more delicious honey, and without the bees to pollinate flowers, no more fruit and vegetables. No more of Mrs Simpson's glorious pies and cakes! Worse still, Mr Fishe... Buy or find out more →
Pizza Cake
$16.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
STORIES WITH THE LOT!
Save ten lives with a paperclip, discover how a big banana can ruin your sister's holiday, make a new friend with a garbage bin, develop a taste for sheep's spleen and chips, bounce on a vampire's b... Buy or find out more →
Selby Sprung
$14.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Selby, the only talking dog in Australia and, perhaps, the world, is back with this new collection of his wonderful adventures. The thrills come thick and fast in this sixteenth SELBY book, as Selby is hurled out of the ... Buy or find out more →
The Fartionary
$14.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Do girls fart more than boys? Which foods make the best bottom burps? What happens if you let one rip in space? All these stinking questions and more will be answered in ... THE FARTIONARY!
Andy Jones explodes the farty ... Buy or find out more →
The Son Of Neptune: Heroes Of Olympus V2
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
In The Lost Hero, three demigods named Jason, Piper, and Leo made their first visit to Camp Half-Blood, where they inherited a blood-chilling quest:
Seven half-bloods shall answer the call,
To storm or fire the world mus... Buy or find out more →
Darth Paper Strikes Back
$11.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson
This is the hilarious, clever and much-anticipated follow-up to the breakout hit, "The Strange Case of Origami Yoda". Tom is an exciting new voice in middle grade fiction. His spot-on portrayals of secondary school and t... Buy or find out more →
The Flint Heart
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Candlewick Press
An ambitious Stone Age man demands a talisman that will harden his heart, allowing him to take control of his tribe. Against better judgement, the tribe's magic man creates the Flint Heart, but the cruelty of it causes t... Buy or find out more →
The Mask Of Destiny: The Billionaire Trilogy Book 3
$19.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
The police have finally caught the evil murderer Sir Mason Green. The third casket and whatever treasure it contains can remain a secret just as the Fraternity wished. And Gerald can relax and enjoy his billions.
Or can ... Buy or find out more →
City Of Lies: The Keepers Book Two
$22.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
A gripping fantasy adventure: the exciting sequel to Museum of Thieves. Six months have passed since the Great Storm, and Goldie Roth is trapped at home again, this time by the invisible chains of love and guilt. But whe... Buy or find out more →
Mystery Of The Cursed Ruby Adventure Island 5
$14.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
The circus comes to town, full of conjurors, clowns, tightrope walkers and trapeze artists. But dark secrets lurk beneath the sawdust and spangles - secrets that are part of a dangerous mystery that might prove impossibl... Buy or find out more →
Horrid Henry And The Zombie Vampire
$12.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
Henry's back - in his twentieth full-length book - and this time he's got some tricks up his sleeve that make this book perfect for reading at Halloween! Join the horrid boy as he terrorises his schoolmates at a museum s... Buy or find out more →
Wilma Tenderfoot And The Case Of The Rascals Revenge
$14.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
Wilma Tenderfoot (small but determined - and slightly accident prone - assistant to the greatest living detective, Theodore P. Goodman) and her beloved beagle, Pickle, are on their most cracking case yet! The whole of Co... Buy or find out more →
Magic Thief: Found
$14.99 – Paperback book / Quercus
Sneaking out of prison isn't easy, unless you are a thief, or a wizard. Luckily, Conn is both! Trouble is, once he's out, where does he go? His home is a pile of rubble since he blew it up doing magic. His master, the wi... Buy or find out more →
Tale Dark And Grimm
$14.95 – Paperback book / Anderson Publishing
In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales. As readers follow the siblings through a forest brimming with menacing foes... Buy or find out more →
This Isn't What It Looks Like
$25.95 – Hardcover book / Little Brown
The Secret Series continues in this dangerous and daring fourth adventure.
Cass finds herself alone and disoriented, a stranger in a dream-like, medieval world. Where is she? Who is she? With the help of a long-lost rela... Buy or find out more →
World of Norm: May Contain Nuts
$14.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
Why on earth did Norm's family have to move, anyway?
In their old house he'd never tried to pee in anything other than a toilet. And when Norm is in bed, he's kept awake by his dad snoring like a constipated rhinoceros!W... Buy or find out more →
Last Dragonslayer
$16.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
In the good old days, magic was powerful, unregulated by government, and even the largest spell could be woven without filling in magic release form B1-7g.
Then the magic started fading away.
Fifteen-year-old Jennifer St... Buy or find out more →
Not So Goblin Boy
$16.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
Samuel is the only ordinary human boy in a world full of magic. Adopted by goblins he dreams of being just like them: with their wicked sense of humour, love of farts and fighting, and amazing inventions. He is determine... Buy or find out more →
Golden Bat: Samurai Kids Book Six
$15.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
The sixth instalment in a unique series about a special group of kids training in the ways of the samurai.
The Little Cockroaches are stuck on Cheju Island until they fulfil a promise made to the famous Chinese pirate ca... Buy or find out more →
Digger Field World Champion Maybe
$14.95 – Paperback book / Egmont Books
The only extraordinary thing about Digger Field is that there is nothing extraordinary about him at all. But this summer that's all going to change. Digger's got a plan that will elevate him to the only world record-hold... Buy or find out more →
Dragons 3: Mordred
$15.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Arthur has been crowned King and peace and happiness have broken out all over Avalon. Life has never been more peaceful and everyone is living happily ever after.
So why are so many people planning rebellion?
On one hand... Buy or find out more →
Nicholas And The Gang
$14.95 – Paperback book /
Nicholas and the Gang contains 16 stories about Nicholas, the French schoolboy, and his friends, many of whom are familiar from the other books in the series: there's Alec, who's always eating; Cuthbert, who's always top... Buy or find out more →
The Golden Door: The Three Doors #1
$16.99 – Paperback book / Omnibus Books
The walled city of Weld is under attack from ferocious flying creatures that raid in the night, bringing death and destruction. The Warden calls for Volunteers to find and destroy the Enemy sending the invaders, and the ... Buy or find out more →
Big Nate On A Roll
$14.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Big Nate is back, starring in the third instalment of his own super-funny series. Big Nate is created by Lincoln Peirce, who inspired Jeff Kinney, author of DIARY OF A WIMPY KID. Big Nate's scout troop is fundraising and... Buy or find out more →
Magnificent 12: The Trap
$14.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Mack, Jarrah, and Stefan travel to China and Germany to find the next two members of the Magnificent Twelve. It's easy: eat some scorpions, find some dragons, fight a guitar-playing thunder god, and stay away from Paddy ... Buy or find out more →
Changing Yesterday
$19.95 – Paperback book / Ford Street Publishing
It's 1901, and Battle Commander Liore has travelled back in time to stop a war that will rage for over a hundred years. But time itself is against her. Whenever she changes history, a new beginning to the war emerges and... Buy or find out more →