Millions

By Frank Cottrell Boyce

*Medal Winner* When a bag stuffed full of money falls out of a train and into their camp, Damian and Anthony are suddenly rich. Very, very rich, to be precise. But, there is a problem. They only have a few days in which to spend the money. When the Euro arrives, it’ll be worthless. ....

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

By Roald Dahl

Suddenly, from underneath the wrapper, there came a brilliant flash of gold. Charlie's irresistible story begins when he finds one of Mr Willy Wonka's precious Golden Tickets in his bar of chocolate and wins a magical day at the mysterious chocolate factory ... One of the most popular children's books of all time. Paperback. 170 pages.

James and the Giant Peach

By Roald Dahl

James Henry Trotter was very happy until he was four years old and his parents were eaten up outside London Zoo by an enormous angry rhinoceros. Poor James has to go and live with his beastly aunts, Sponge and Spiker. Then something very peculiar and magical happens...

The BFG

By Roald Dahl

The BFG is a Big Friendly Giant who spirits a child out of bed one dark night. In this warm and funny story of an unusual friendship, Sophie and the BFG cook up an ingenious plan and rid the world of 'trogglehunting giants' for ever...

The Witches

By Roald Dahl

You could be sitting next to a witch and never know it. They look just like ordinary women but they're extremely dangerous to children! Luckily for the boy in this story, his grandmother knows what signs to look for but, even so, things don't go quite as planned...

George's Marvellous Medicine

By Roald Dahl

Most grandmas are kind and helpful ladies. Not George's grandma. She's a grumpy and grizzly old grouch and George wants to teach her a lesson. So when it's time for her medicine, George concocts a bubbling, frothing, marvellous mixture, which is guaranteed to send her through the roof...

The Twits

By Roald Dahl

Worms in spaghetti! Frogs in bed! Eyeballs in drinks! Mr and Mrs Twit play some horrible tricks on each other. I bet you have never met two people more revolting!

Matilda

By Roald Dahl

Matilda's parents have called her some terrible things. The truth is, she's a genius and they're the stupid ones. Find out how she gets the better of them and her spiteful headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, as well as discovering that she has a very special power.

Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum

By Julia Donaldson

A fantastic collection of poems for the very young from an acknowledged master of rhyme.

Princess Mirror-Belle and the Magic Shoes

By Julia Donaldson

A second collection of stories about delightfully funny Princess Mirror-Belle, from Julia Donaldson, the best-selling author of The Gruffalo.

Black Beauty

By Anna Sewell

The adventures, disappointments and joys of a very special horse. Black Beauty is a handsome, well-bred colt with a strong spirit. But when his owners are forced to sell him, his fortunes change from a life of comfort and kindness to one of hard labour and cruelty. Black Beauty soon learns how unpredictable life can be with man as his....

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Hardback

By J. K. Rowling & J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince takes up the story of Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at this point in the midst of the storm of this battle of good and evil.

The Bed and Breakfast Star

By Jacqueline Wilson

In this book there is this little girl called Elsa, her little sister called Pippa and a baby brother called Hank. Their parents have run out of money and they cannot live in their house any more, they have to live in a bed and breakfast hotel with other families who are poor.

Puffin Treasury of NZ Children's Stories Vol 1

The Puffin treasury book is New Zealand's children's writing at its liveliest with excerpts, poems and complete stories from NZ's most popular authors: Gaylene Gordon, Diana Noonan, Maurice Gee, Dorothy Butler, William Taylor, Tessa Duder and many, many more.

Hi! Fly Guy

By Tedd Arnold

Have you ever had one pesky fly buzzing around and getting in your face? Just get out a jar and catch yourself a pet! People will say, 'Flies can't be pets!' But maybe they can. Especially if they are smart and they can do some fancy flying tricks. Hardback. 30 pages

Payback

By Michelle Kelly

*Award Finalist* ‘You’re short,’ said the geeky -looking kid with the gap between his teeth. ‘Year? Well, you’re ugly . . . And I’ll grow’. But what if he never does? ....

Airman

By Eoin Colfer

A book full of breathless non-stop adventure! For Conor, the only way out . . . Is up! Conor was born to fly. More accurately, he was born in the sky. Little wonder he became what he became.

The Key To Rondo (Rondo Trilogy #1)

By Emily Rodda

There are three rules to the old painted, music box: Wind the box three times only. Never shut the box when the music is playing. And never move the box before the music stops...

Bears on Wheels

By Stan and Jan Berenstain

Learn to count with these amazing wheel riding Berenstain Bears! A classic counting and numbers book all the way up to twenty-one. Every page is entertaining and children will laugh out loud, as they learn.

Restless Spirit

By Susan Brocker

A desperate race to save a wild Kaimanawa stallion. A restless spirit roams the slopes of the snow-topped volcanoes and the harsh tussock landscape - a wild, white Kaimanawa stallion who cannot be tamed.