Author(s): Lauren Middleton

NZ Children & Young Adult | Kids' Winter Reading Guide 2025

When Pippa's woolly best friend Lulabelle gets snatched, she goes on an extraordinary adventure to get her friend back with the help of ex-professional-weightlifting policeman Mike Te Hira. There will be tickle fights, angry phone calls to the mayor and a gumboot-throwing competition. Will Lulabelle be found safe and sound? And what is that ominous creature scurrying through the trees?