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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Data collected by Nielsen BookScan.
25 January – 21 February 2026
- Stepping Up, David Hill, Penguin Random House NZ. $22.00
- The Day the Mac ‘n’ Cheese Ran Out (The Terrible Trio #2), Swapna Haddow & Minky Stapleton, Scholastic NZ. $18.99
- Children of the Rush Book 1, James Russell, Dragon Brothers Books. $22.00
- The (Not So) Superheroes (The Terrible Trio 1), Swapna Haddow & Minky Stapleton, Scholastic. $18.99
- The Fate of Dragons, (Dragonfall 1) Sarina Clark & Abra Gil Celdran, Little Moa. $21.99
- Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea, T K Roxborogh & Phoebe Morris, Huia Publishers. $25.00
- Spark Hunter, Sonya Wilson, Allen & Unwin Children’s. $24.99
- The Case of the Missing Stuff (Violet and the Velvets 1), Rachael King, Allen and Unwin Children’s. $18.99
- The Dragon Defenders (Book 1) James Russell, Dragon Brothers Books. $22.00
- Brown Bird, Jane Arthur, Puffin. $19.99
