New Middle Fiction (Girls 9-12 Years)
Green Heart
$14.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic
A two-fold tale of grief and hope, loss and love, told as only Alice Hoffman can.
When her family is lost in a terrible disaster, 15-year-old Green is haunted by loss and the past. Struggling to survive in a place where ... Buy or find out more →
Battle Of The Jade Horse
$16.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
In China's wild north-west, a mob of bandits challenge the Emperor's rule.
At stake are hundreds of priceless war horses and the rule of the mighty Chinese empire. Even best friends Hu and Ren find themselves on opposite... Buy or find out more →
Mountain Wolf
$16.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Razaq Nadeem lives in the tribal area of Kala Dhaka, known as Black Mountain, in Pakistan. When an earthquake strikes the area, and his family is lost, Razaq is told by his dying father to flee to Rawalpindi, where his u... Buy or find out more →
Nest For Celeste
$29.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
A beautifully illustrated novel about a mouse, her friendship with Audubon's apprentice, and her search for home.
Beneath the crackled and faded painting of a horse, underneath the worn and dusty floorboards of the dinin... Buy or find out more →
Dragonkeeper 4: Blood Brothers
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Walker Books
The next instalment in the internationally best-selling and award-winning Dragonkeeper series.
The year is 325. The powerful Han Dynasty is a distant memory and tribes of barbarian soldiers fight over what was once the E... Buy or find out more →
Blubber
$12.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
Blubber is a thick layer of fat that lies under the skin and over the muscles of whales ...When Linda innocently reads out her class project, everyone finds it funny. Linda can't help it if she's fat, but what starts as ... 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 →
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 →
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 →
The Children Of The King
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Penguin
Three children have been sent to live in the countryside, safe from the war in London. When they find two boys hiding in a castle, the past and future come together to make an extraordinary adventure. A hauntingly beauti... Buy or find out more →
Raven Lucas 1: Missing
$14.99 – Paperback book /
Raven Lucas appears to have everything. But something is missing from her life. Her father. He has disappeared, suddenly, mysteriously, with no words of goodbye. Has he simply left his family and didn't have the courage ... 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 →
Dragon Princess
$18.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
The Dragon Princess: Being a princess in a magical kingdom isn't easy. Especially if your best friends are a vampire, a troll and a wizard. And if you happen to be a magical princess who turns into a dragon when she gets... 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 →
Hatched: The Grimstones Book 1
$14.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Meet Martha Grimstone, a girl trying to find her own special talent in the world, in this sweetly gothic fairytale told in a collage of words, photos and drawings.
Hello, my name is Martha Grimstone. Shall I tell you my ... Buy or find out more →
Our Australian Girl: Meet Nellie (Book One)
$14.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
It's 1849 . . . and Nellie O'Neill is arriving in South Australia on a ship bringing orphan girls from Irish workhouses. Nellie and her best friend, Mary, have left the famine in Ireland far behind, and are full of hopes... Buy or find out more →
Our Australian Girl: Meet Alice (Book One)
$14.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
It's 1918 . . . and Alice lives with her big family by the Swan River in Perth, while on the other side of the world, the Great War rages. Alice's deepest wish is to become a ballerina, and when she auditions for a famou... 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 →
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 →
Red Dirt Diary 2 Blue About Love
$14.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
I’m going to be a bridesmaid.
Mat, Lynette and me.
Long, pink shiny dresses and flowers in our hair.
Leading Miss McKenzie down the aisle to disaster.
I think I’m going to puke ...
When Blue’s favourite teacher annou... Buy or find out more →
Emily The Strange Piece Of Mind
$19.99 – Hard back / Harper Collins
Emily the Strange is back for her fourth amazing and intriguing adventure.
Her Strange To-Do List includes: 1. Lose (and regain) mind 2. Reprogramme golem 3. Locate secret book vault 4. Commune with Dead Dark Aunts 5. Re... Buy or find out more →
Alice Miranda In New York
$15.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Alice-Miranda is in bustling New York City. It's a blur of skyscrapers, hot dog carts, chats with zoo animals and classes at Mrs Kimmel's School for Girls, right next to glorious Central Park. Her family's glamorous depa... Buy or find out more →
Shadow Thief
$14.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Drabville is a model town, where Milli Klompet lives with her slightly offbeat family and spends her time longing for adventure.
Then one day, along with her cautious best friend and amateur geologist, Ernest Perriclof, ... 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 →
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 →
Finally
$12.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic
Get a mobile phone. Stay home alone. Go to the mall with best friend and No Parents. Wear makeup. Get contact lenses. Attend a boy-girl party. Rory Swenson has been waiting her whole life to turn twelve. And she's got a ... 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 →
Violet Mackerel's Natural Habitat
$19.95 – Hardcover book / Walker Books
VIOLET MACKEREL has a new theory. It is the THEORY of HELPING small THINGS.
VIOLET MACKEREL quite likes helping. She PARTICULARLY likes to help SMALL THINGS. So when Violet makes friends with a tiny ladybird called SMALL... 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 →
Loving Spirit: Hopes
$12.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
Ellie works really hard at the stables. Her only comforts are her beautiful horse, Spirit, and the friendship of her cousin Joe. When it looks like both might be taken away from her, will Ellie have the strength she need... 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Liesl And Po
$22.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
We meet Liesl the night after the day her young father has died. That same day she is visited by a ghost, Po, an eight year old boy who lives on the other side, the territory between life and death that runs parallel to ... Buy or find out more →
Luka And The Fire Of Life
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka's storyteller father, Rashid, fell suddenly and inexplicably into a sleep so deep that nothing and ... Buy or find out more →
Tomorrow Girls: #1 Behind The Gates
$9.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic
In a terrifying future world, four girls must depend on each other if they want to survive.
Louisa is nervous about being sent away to a boarding school -- but she's excited, too. And she has her best friend, Maddie, to ... Buy or find out more →
Wonderstruck
$34.99 – Hardcover book / Scholastic
Playing with the form he created in his trailblazing debut novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick once again sails into uncharted territory and takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey.
Ben and Rose secretl... 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 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 →
Spies Of Gerander Gerander Trilogy Book 2
$19.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
"It had been four years since the triplets had seen their parents - and for most of that time, they'd thought their parents were dead..." Alistair, Alice and Alex have returned home safe from their adventures, but now th... Buy or find out more →
Gerander Trilogy The Song Of The Winns 1
$19.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
Triplets Alex, Alice and Alistair think they are just three ordinary mice, until Alistair mysteriously vanishes. Then Alex and Alice learn a secret about their family, a secret which means Alistair's life is in danger - ... Buy or find out more →
Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes
$19.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
Want to know more? Of course you do, bozo.
Here′s the low-down on Ruby Redfort: she′s a genius code-cracker, a daring detective, and a gadget-laden special agent who just happens to be a thirteen-year-old girl. She and h... 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 →
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 →
Dreamland
$14.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
The third book in the moving and upliftingly Riley Bloom series, exploring one girl's adventures in the afterlife - from the bestselling author of "The Immortals". "All I wanted, all I'd ever dreamed of, was to be thirte... 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 →
Miss Molly Black Pearl Ponies Book Three
$14.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
This exciting new series from the writer of Horses of Half Moon Ranch will be welcomed by all young pony fans with a sense of adventure.
Keira's home is Black Pearl Ranch, where she helps train ponies and lives the dream... Buy or find out more →
Mist
$16.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
A chilling fairy-tale thriller for 10+ girls.
Midnight: a mist-haunted wood with a bad reputation. A sweet sixteen party, and 13 year old Nell is trying to keep her sister, spoilt birthday-girl Gwen, out of trouble. No c... Buy or find out more →
Fire And Roses
$16.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
Hey, I'm Kitty Slade. My life used to be pretty, well, normal. But it turns out seeing dead people is a big deal. I had no idea what I was in for... When Kitty goes to stay at a friend's house, it's not long before she d... 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 →
Flitterwig: #3 Scatterbungle
$17.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic
Ella's school has been invaded by the Scatterbungle - a gaseous poison designed to destroy the powers of all Magicals and Flitterwigs in its path. It's Ella's destiny as the Clearheart to build a new team of magical bloo... 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 →
Noah Barleywater Runs Away
$4.95 – Paperback book / Corgi Books
In Noah Barleywater Runs Away, bestselling author John Boyne explores the world of childhood and the adventures that we can all have there. Noah is running away from his problems, or at least that's what he thinks, the d... Buy or find out more →
Shine
$14.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Twelve-year-old Tiff loves her mum, Carla, who is glitzy and fun and always coming home with shiny new amazing stuff. The trouble is, Tiff's mum doesn't buy things, she takes them. The fact is, Tiff's mum is a thief...
W... 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 →
On Orchard Road
$16.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
Jane's world has been turned upside down. She has a brand-new sister, and her family has moved to a small town, leaving behind everything she knows. She is sure that she will be miserable - but a mysterious old lady, a c... Buy or find out more →
The Apothecary
$19.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
A mysterious apothecary.
A magic book.
A missing scientist.
An impossible plan.
It’s 1952 and the Scott family has moved unexpectedly from Los Angeles to London. Janie feels uncomfortable in her strange new school, until... 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 →
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 →
Youngest Cameleer
$16.95 – Paperback book /
Ahmed Ackbar, a thirteen-year-old Afghan and the ‘youngest Afghan cameleer’ speaks Pashto and a very little English. He is the only surviving male in his immediate family. In late 1872 he sails into the prosperous city o... Buy or find out more →
Lob
$17.95 – Paperback book / David Fickling
He's older than anyone can tell. Older than the trees. Older than anybody. For as long as she can remember, Lucy has wanted to catch a glimpse of the mysterious green man who lives in Grandpa Will's garden: Lob. You have... Buy or find out more →
Alice-Miranda At Sea
$15.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Mystery and intrigue above deck and below!
Alice-Miranda is set for a luxurious cruise aboard the royal yacht Octavia, where Aunty Gee is hosting the wedding of Aunt Charlotte and Lawrence Ridley. Even Ambrosia Headlingt... Buy or find out more →
The Accidental Princess
$19.95 – Hard back / Penguin Books
Inside the lilac hedge, two sets of glittering emerald eyes observed Matilda through the heart-shaped leaves. 'It is the princess!' whispered a tiny voice . . .
When the pixies and fairies of the lilac hedge mistake Mati... Buy or find out more →
George And The Big Bang
$24.95 – Paperback book / Doubleday
Eric is involved with a big experiment in Switzerland, looking to explore the earliest moment of the universe. But, there is a group of people who don't think this experiment should go ahead and are planning to sabotage ... Buy or find out more →
The Truth About Verity Sparks
$16.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
Verity Sparks is good at finding lost things, but will she be able to uncover the truth about her own past?
Verity Sparks is a thirteen-year-old orphan working as a milliner in Victorian London. But Verity is no ordinary... Buy or find out more →