Whakaari by Marion Day
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Roa, fifteen, lives close to Whakaari/White Island and hangs out with her street gang. She has too many dads, and using the volcano as a metaphor for her feelings, she tells her story in days, weeks and months. Meanwhile, she and her mother Huia both flashback to the past. Huia reveals how her choice o ...Show more
Alex - The Quartet by Tessa Duder
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
The award-winning Alex books, which first appeared in the 1980s, are to be reprinted in one omnibus edition in October 2019. Tessa Duder's series covers Alex Archer's life from early in 1959, vying for selection for the Rome Olympics, her struggles during the winter of 1960, her experiences in Rome in A ...Show more
Sleeps Standing - Moetū by Witi Ihimaera; Hemi Kelly
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Both fiction and fact, this fascinating book is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the Battle of Ōrākau. During three days in 1864, 300 Māori men, women and children fought an Imperial army and captured the imagination of the world. The battle marked the end of the Land Wars in the Waikato and resulted in v ...Show more
We Were Wolves by Jason Cockcroft
29.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Boy lives in a caravan on his own in the woods. His dad, John, is in prison and promises to get out soon. All the boy needs to do is survive alone for a little while longer. But dark forces are circling – like the dangerous man in the Range Rover, who is looking for his stolen money. And then there are ...Show more
Here Upon the Tide by Blair McMillan
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
When Amir’s city in Syria is bombed as civil war erupts, his father makes a fateful decision. Amir soon finds himself on a perilous journey by land and sea, with little hope of reaching his destination. Milly is still reeling from the aftermath of earthquakes in her home city of Christchurch. Her only r ...Show more
Bugs by Whiti Hereaka
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Bugs is about the unfolding lives of three young people in their last year of school in small-town New Zealand. Life is slow, and it seems not much happens in town or in Jez and Bugs's lives. But when Stone Cold arrives, the three come to different conclusions about how to deal with being trapped in a s ...Show more
Nanotech by Denis Wright
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
High School students on a science field trip to Auckland are captured by white supremacist group NAB, whose target is American biologist Professor Meinhoff. He's made a startling and dangerous breakthrough in molecular biology - a virus that could destroy entire ethnic groups if it falls into the wrong ...Show more
A Trio of Sophies by Eileen Merriman
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Secrets, lies and love. A missing girl, a secret diary and unsettling revelations . . . Today is the first of September, the first day of spring, and it’s been sixty-four days since I last saw Sophie Abercrombie. It's been sixty-four days since anyone saw Sophie Abercrombie. The prettiest Sophie. The mi ...Show more
Displaced by Cristina Sanders
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
An enthralling historical novel of immigration, courage and first love from an award-winning New Zealand author. Eloise and her family must leave Cornwall on a treacherous sea journey to start a new life in 1870s colonial New Zealand. On the ship across, Eloise meets Lars, a Norwegian labourer travellin ...Show more
Mortal Fire by Elizabeth Knox
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
A mysterious and compelling literary fantasy that weaves magic, mathematics, love, family-and riddles within riddles-from the author of international sensation The Absolute Book, Elizabeth Knox. Sixteen-year-old Canny Mochrie has always been different; she has a calculating, mathematical mind and she s ...Show more
Underwater by Helen Vivienne Fletcher
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Bailey has a lot of secrets, and a lot of scars, both of which shed like to keep hidden. Unfortunately, Pine Hills Resort isnt the kind of place where anyone can keep anything hidden for long. When Bailey arrives, she just wants to get through summer quietly, spending as much time in the water as she ca ...Show more
Swim by Avi Duckor-Jones
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Winner of the 2018 Viva La Novella Prize Jacob is an open-water, distance swimmer, a free spirit who has spent years travelling the world, working odd jobs between ocean swims. But when he receives a letter from his sick and estranged mother, he must return to his native New Zealand. He spends the summ ...Show more