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May’s 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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Data collected by Nielsen BookScan.

20 April 2025 – 17 May 2025

  1. Dreamslinger (Slinger  Series Book 1) Graci Kim, Penguin Books. $24.00
  2. Nine Girls Stacy Gregg, Penguin Books. $22.00
  3. The Lost Saint Rachael Craw, Allen & Unwin Children’s. $29.99
  4. The Case of the Missing Stuff (Violet and the Velvets Book 1). Rachael King, Allen & Unwin Children’s. $18.99
  5. Tui Street Tales Anne Kayes, Scholastic NZ. $17.99
  6. Children of the Rush Book 1 James Russell, Dragon Brothers Books. $22.00
  7. The Dragon Defenders (Book 1) James Russell, Dragon Brothers Books. $22.00
  8. The Cinderella Service Lynda Taylor, Mary Egan Publishing. $25.00
  9. Tonight, I Bleed: The Witches of Halstett 2 Katharine J. Adams, Moa Press. $29.99
  10. Tui Street Heroes Anne Kayes, Wilding Books. $19.95
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