2024 Battle of the Bibliophiles for Yr 10
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Patu: The New Zealand Wars by Gavin Bishop
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: 1st
A large-format, stunning visual history of the New Zealand Wars of the 1800s, suitable for children and adults, by the multiple-award-winning Gavin BishopDiscover the key people, perspectives and battles of the New Zealand Wars in this powerfully told and richly illustrated visual history by Gavin Bisho ...Show more
Blackmail & Lies by Mary-Anne Scott
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Finn’s druggie dad is on trial for manslaughter, so Finn is sent away to an exclusive boarding school to remove him from the small-town gossip machine. At first he feels a bit like a fish out of water, but soon makes some good friends, and even scores with the much admired Mia, who plays in the symphon ...Show more
The Stand In by A J Rushby
22.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
When new girl Millie shows up at Lena’s boarding school, she arrives with a question. Why is Lena pretending to be someone she’s not? Lena ignores her. Until Millie shows her photo after photo of someone who looks like her. Exactly like her. Intrigued, Lena agrees to meet her look-alike, Saskia. Saskia ...Show more
Nothing More to Tell by Karen M. McManus
21.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
From the author of the international bestseller One of Us Is Lying comes a brand new unputdownable YA thriller.From the bestselling author of One of Us is Lying comes another page-turning thriller from the Queen of Crime . . .Someone got away with murder. The most terrifying part is that they're back - ...Show more
Hangman by Jack Heath
25.00 NZD
Category: Adult Fiction | Series: Timothy Blake / Hangman
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Brilliant!" --Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author"Two well-chewed thumbs up." --Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author An addictive debut thriller starring an FBI consultant with a peculiar taste for crime and punishment...A boy vanishes on his way ...Show more
Truly Devious (#1) by Maureen Johnson
25.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Truly Devious
New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson weaves a delicate tale of murder and mystery in the first book of a striking new series, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and E. Lockhart. Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It w ...Show more
The Bone Tree by Airana Ngarewa
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
After the death of both parents, Kauri and Black must find a way to survive in a world that doesn't care much about them. Kauri embarks on a journey into his father's past, to come to terms with the trauma he's experienced in his short life, and to break the cycle of violence he fears perpetuating as he ...Show more
Unearthing Dad by Pam Williamson
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Fourteen year old Meg has almost given up hope of finding her father when a chance encounter with a stranger reignites her search. Stranded in Wellington after a killer earthquake hits the region, she teams up with two streetwise Pasifika brothers, Ku and Siosi, who help her survive in the demolished ci ...Show more
In the Sea There are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda
26.00 NZD
Category: Senior Fiction
One night before putting him to bed, Enaiatollah's mother tells him three things: don't use drugs, don't use weapons, don't steal. The next day he wakes up to find she isn't there. They have fled their village in Ghazni to seek safety outside Afghanistan but his mother has decided to return home to her ...Show more
Splinters of Sunshine by Patrice Lawrence
28.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
From the multi-award-winning author of Orangeboy, comes a YA road-trip mystery.After a fun Christmas Eve decorating the tree and singing along with his mum to Queen, fifteen-year-old Spey wakes up on Christmas morning to find the ex-prisoner father he's never met asleep on the sofa.Then he receives a my ...Show more
Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant by Cristina Sanders
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
It’s 1866 and the three-masted sailing ship General Grant is on the southern route from Melbourne to London, with gold from the diggings secreted in returning miners’ hems and pockets. In the fog and the dark, the ship strikes the cliffs of the Auckland Islands, is sucked into a cave and wrecked. Only f ...Show more
Red Rising: An explosive dystopian sci-fi novel (#1 New York Times bestselling Red Rising series book 1) by Pierce Brown
28.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Red Rising
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Pierce Brown's relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. "Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow."--Scott Sigler NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, BUZZFEED, AND ...Show more
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