11 best-selling fantasy books like Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea by T.K. Roxborogh

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Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

By: T.K. Roxborogh

4.27

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

On a beach clean-up, thirteen-year-old one-legged Charlie and his half-brother, Robbie, find a pona…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea by T.K. Roxborogh , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The 10 PM Question

By: Kate De Goldi

4.10

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Frankie Parsons is a talented kid with a quirky family, a best friend named Gigs, a… read more

Similar categories in Kate De Goldi's The 10 PM Question book and T.K. Roxborogh's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

  • young adult
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2. How to Bee

By: Bren MacDibble

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

For 8-12 year olds - and all those who love middle grade fiction. Peony lives with her sister and g… read more

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  • childrens
  • young adult

3. Skulduggery Pleasant (Skulduggery Pleasant, #1)

By: Derek Landy , Tom Percival

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

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4. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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5. The Hive Queen (Wings of Fire, #12)

By: Tui T. Sutherland

4.48

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in the hives, Cricket has always had a million questions. Why are trees forbidden, even … read more

Similar categories in Tui T. Sutherland's The Hive Queen (Wings of Fire, #12) book and T.K. Roxborogh's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

  • childrens
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • adventure
"But this new fear was like termites in her skull, much more constant and present and squirming through all of her thoughts."

-Tui T. Sutherland, The Hive Queen (Wings of Fire, #12)

"I'm at full rage all the time. It can't get worse." "All the time?" Blue said wonderingly. "Really? Don't you get tired?" "Yes," she growled. "And that makes me furious, too."

-Tui T. Sutherland, The Hive Queen (Wings of Fire, #12)

"Cricket wanted the world to feel more like a book: Here is a question, so here is an answer. Here are the mysteries of the universe; now here is everything you want to know about them."

-Tui T. Sutherland, The Hive Queen (Wings of Fire, #12)

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6. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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7. Before You Knew My Name

By: Jacqueline Bublitz

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This is not just another novel about a dead girl. Two women—one alive, one dead—are brought togethe… read more

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"I know what it's like for the horror to follow you home."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"What happened to her makes me so mad. The entitlement of these fucking men who destroy lives, just because they can."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"The thing is. When the dead speak back, we are seldom loud enough to be heard over the clamour of all that living going on."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"For the first time, I understand it's not only the dead who have lives they don't get to live out. The people left behind have as many versions of themselves unexplored, as many possible paths that c…"

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

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8. How to Loiter in a Turf War

By: Coco Solid

4.23

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more

Similar categories in Coco Solid's How to Loiter in a Turf War book and T.K. Roxborogh's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

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9. The World’s Worst Pets

By: David Walliams

4.04

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

BE WARNED! AWFUL ANIMALS LURK INSIDE… Millions of readers have loved The World’s Worst Children,… read more

Similar categories in David Walliams's The World’s Worst Pets book and T.K. Roxborogh's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

  • childrens
  • young adult
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10. The Poison Jungle (Wings of Fire, #13)

By: Tui T. Sutherland

4.40

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Some secrets are deadly. It's no secret that Sundew wants to destroy the HiveWings. It's her lif… read more

Similar categories in Tui T. Sutherland's The Poison Jungle (Wings of Fire, #13) book and T.K. Roxborogh's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

  • childrens
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • adventure
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11. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

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12. The Dangerous Gift (Wings of Fire, #14)

By: Tui T. Sutherland

4.47

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling series continues! Snowfall didn't expect to be queen of the Ic… read more

Similar categories in Tui T. Sutherland's The Dangerous Gift (Wings of Fire, #14) book and T.K. Roxborogh's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

  • childrens
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • adventure
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13. The Flames of Hope (Wings of Fire, #15)

By: Tui T. Sutherland

4.34

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling series is hotter than ever, and this thrilling conclusion to the … read more

Similar categories in Tui T. Sutherland's The Flames of Hope (Wings of Fire, #15) book and T.K. Roxborogh's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

  • childrens
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • adventure
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14. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

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15. Poor People With Money

By: Dominic Hoey

4.03

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Monday Woolridge is a fighter with a face covered in scars and life full of debt. Her Avondale f… read more

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16. The Axeman's Carnival

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.37

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Chidgey's The Axeman's Carnival book and T.K. Roxborogh's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

  • fantasy
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17. Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

By: Michael Robotham

4.16

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Half-starved and… read more

Similar categories in Michael Robotham's Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1) book and T.K. Roxborogh's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

"Guilt has to fall somewhere when logic fails."

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

"Maybe that's what's keeping me awake - the choices."

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

"A slow death, I know, but that's life, isn't it - a long, drawn-out suicide."

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

"As a forensic psychologist, I have met killers and psychopaths and sociopaths, but I refuse to define people as being good or evil. Wrongdoing is an absence of something good rather than something fa…"

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

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18. The Pōrangi Boy

By: Shilo Kino

4.14

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Twelve-year-old Niko lives in Pohe Bay, a small, rural town with a sacred hot spring – and a taniwh… read more

Similar categories in Shilo Kino's The Pōrangi Boy book and T.K. Roxborogh's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

  • young adult
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19. Kāwai For Such A Time As This

By: Monty Soutar

4.16

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it’s never… read more

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20. The Bone Tree

By: Airana Ngarewa

3.71

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

After the death of both parents, Kauri and Black must find a way to survive in a world that doesn't… read more

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21. A Dark Inheritance

By: H.F. Askwith

3.36

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

Felix Ashe is sure of only one thing. In thirty days, on his eighteenth birthday, he will die. He m… read more

Similar categories in H.F. Askwith's A Dark Inheritance book and T.K. Roxborogh's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

  • fantasy
  • young adult
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22. Falling into Rarohenga

By: Steph Matuku

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

It seems like an ordinary day when Tui and Kae, sixteen-year-old twins, get home from school – unti… read more

Similar categories in Steph Matuku's Falling into Rarohenga book and T.K. Roxborogh's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • childrens
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23. The Grimmelings

By: Rachael King

4.38

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Spellbinding middle-grade fantasy adventure of loyalty, courage, and being careful what you wish fo… read more

Similar categories in Rachael King's The Grimmelings book and T.K. Roxborogh's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

  • fantasy
  • childrens
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24. Flight of the Fantail

By: Steph Matuku

3.76

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A busload of high school students crashes in bush in a remote part of Aotearoa New Zealand. Only a … read more

Similar categories in Steph Matuku's Flight of the Fantail book and T.K. Roxborogh's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

  • young adult
  • adventure
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25. Nine Girls: A brand new mystery for 9-12 year olds

By: Stacy Gregg

4.41

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

They dug a hole right there on our farm on the bank of the Mangawara and they put the box filled wi… read more

Similar categories in Stacy Gregg's Nine Girls: A brand new mystery for 9-12 year olds book and T.K. Roxborogh's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

  • young adult
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26. Amorangi and Millie's Trip Through Time

By: Lauren Keenan

4.09

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Amorangi and Millie lost their mum. Their only clue to her whereabouts is a carving on a tree that … read more

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  • fantasy
  • childrens
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27. Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

By: T.K. Roxborogh

4.27

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

On a beach clean-up, thirteen-year-old one-legged Charlie and his half-brother, Robbie, find a pona… read more

Similar categories in T.K. Roxborogh's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea book and T.K. Roxborogh's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

  • childrens
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • adventure
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28. All That We Know

By: Shilo Kino

4.61

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

'I don't want to be a pioneer. I want to be the last; to enjoy the fruits of everyone else's hard l… read more

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29. Cuz

By: Liz van der Laarse

3.63

Format: None pages, Paperback

River is offered a trip on his uncle's trawler. His cousin Huia is annoying, always going on about … read more

Similar categories in Liz van der Laarse's Cuz book and T.K. Roxborogh's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

  • young adult
  • adventure
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30. The Raven's Eye Runaways

By: Claire Mabey

4.40

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, beautifully-told fantasy quest set in a parallel medieval world.Three young people and … read more

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31. Hine and the Tohunga Portal

By: Ataria Sharman

3.82

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

Hine and the Tohunga Portal is a fast-paced fantasy adventure. Hine and her brother, Hōhepa, unwitt… read more

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  • fantasy

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