Kids: New Zealand books

There are so many fantastic authors in Aotearoa who have written so many fantastic books! We've picked out a few for you in a mixture of new and not-so-new.

Updated July 28, 2025
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Wellington City Libraries Children's team at Wellington City Libraries
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Detective Beans & the case of the missing hat
Chen, Li
Paper Book
Detective Beans is available 24/7* for all your mystery solving and ice-cream taste testing needs. * Except on school days, and after bedtime. Today he's investigating the case of the missing hat. His missing hat. The clues take Beans all over Cat Town. He...
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Hill, David
Paper Book
Caught in a tunnel collapse, Liam and Imogen have to use all their wits to survive in this gripping novel for readers eight years and up. Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction 2023 When you stood deep inside the tunnel, you could hear the...
The raven's eye runaways
Mabey, Claire
The apprentice witnesser
MacDibble, Bren
Paper Book
Bastienne Scull is nearly twelve years old and lives a simple life as an apprentice to the Witnesser of Miracles in a small village mostly populated by women and girls. Basti knows that miracle-hunting is a lot like mystery-solving, and her little world is full of wonder and intrigue and unexpected...

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