Whetu Toa and The Secret Spies (Whet Toa #3) | Steph Matuku

All is not going well on the farm where Whetu is looking after the magician the Mighty Mikaere’s animals. The new ewes are protesting. Baked Beans, the robot dog, has bitten the bull. And the new rabbit stagehand with the diamond-studded tooth is being incredibly annoying. Worse though – someone is stealing the Mighty Mikaere’s magic tricks.

Whetu goes on a mission to find out who, and when she discovers a secret trapdoor, she learns there’s a lot more going on than she had originally thought.

Steph Matuku (Ngti Mutunga, Ngti Tama, Te Atiawa) is a freelance writer from Taranaki. She enjoys writing stories for young people, and her work has appeared on the page, stage and screen. Her first two novels, Flight of the Fantail and Whet Toa and the Magician were Storylines Notable Books. Whet Toa and the Magician was a finalist at the 2019 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. In 2021, she was awarded the established Mori writer residency at the Michael King Centre where she worked on a novel about post-apocalyptic climate change.