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February/ Marchs Aotearoa Children’s Junior Fiction and Young Adult Bestseller List

Each month, the Aotearoa Children’s Junior Fiction and Young Adults Bestseller List highlights the bestselling junior fiction and young adult titles by New Zealand writers.
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Sponsored by Storylines.
Data collected by Nielsen BookScan.

22 February –  21 March 2026

  1. Stepping Up, David Hill, Penguin Random House NZ. $22.00
  2. Children of the Rush Book 1, James Russell, Dragon Brothers Books. $22.00
  3. Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea, T K Roxborogh & Phoebe Morris, Huia Publishers. $25.00
  4. Spider Games, Brian Falkner, Bateman Books. $27.99
  5. The Dragon Defenders (Book 1) James Russell, Dragon Brothers Books. $22.00
  6. The Fate of Dragons, (Dragonfall 1) Sarina Clark & Abra Gil Celdran, Little Moa. $21.99
  7. The (Not So) Superheroes (The Terrible Trio 1), Swapna Haddow & Minky Stapleton, Scholastic. $18.99
  8. Castle Grim, Shaun Barnett, Scholastic. $20.99
  9. The Day the Mac ‘n’ Cheese Ran Out (The Terrible Trio #2), Swapna Haddow & Minky Stapleton, Scholastic NZ. $18.99
  10. The Anaconda Attack (Miles and Jones 1), Sam Smith and César Lador, Little Moa. $14.99
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