Proud by Various, Various Authors
23.00 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+
A stirring, bold and moving anthology of stories and poetry by top LGBTQ+ YA authors and new talent, giving their unique responses to the broad theme of pride. Each story has an illustration by an artist identifying as part of the LGBTQ+ community. A boy’s coming out is overshadowed by gay penguins, a m ...Show more
These Islands Here by Bronwyn Elsmore
40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories/Plays
Literary-fiction inspired by life in the South Pacific. These 32 tales are based on events and conditions in Aotearoa-New Zealand - aka Land of the Long White Cloud, Down Under, Kiwiland - and other islands of Polynesia. Together they present the varied facets of living in these islands - pleasure, pai ...Show more
The Real Family Christmas by Sue Mongredien
18.00 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction
Join in the fun with these three funny, festive stories about Father Christmas and his bonkers family - nothing goes to plan when the Christmases are around!Disaster strikes when Nick (a.k.a. Father Christmas) catches the flu just before Christmas day, meaning that it's up to his fun-loving younger brot ...Show more
Color outside the Lines: Stories about Love by Sangu Mandana
23.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
"When people ask me what this anthology is about, I'm often tempted to give them the complicated answer- it's about race, and about how being different from the person you love can matter but how it can also not matter, and it's about Chinese pirate ghosts, black girl vigilantes, colonial India, a flowe ...Show more
Toitoi #25 (Spring 2021) by edited by Charlotte Gibbs
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction | Series: Toitoi
Toitoi celebrates the creative spirit of young New Zealanders. We believe that their work has purpose and deserves a wide audience. We publish material with an original and authentic voice that other young people can connect to and be inspired by and that reflects the cultures and experiences of life in ...Show more
Laugh Your Head Off by Andy Griffiths
13.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
A Choco-pops robot + a practical joke that goes wrong + a talking rock + organic rodent pies + a face that's stuck + a plan for revenge + an out-of-control imaginary fairy + a nit epidemic + five kids and one chimp in space = one hilarious book.
Toitoi #28 (Winter 2022) by edited by Charlotte Gibbs
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction | Series: Toitoi
Toitoi is a quarterly journal of writing and art by New Zealand children, ages 5-13. With over 100 pages of original stories, poetry and artwork, Toitoi gives our young writers and artists a real purpose and a wide audience. Toitoi can be read at home or at school and is a valuable classroom resource. ...Show more
Astonishingly Good Stories by R.A. Spratt
24.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
A lovestruck merpig, a peppermint-stick Parthenon, a vegetarian spider and so much more! From R.A. Spratt, bestselling author of Friday Barnes and Shockingly Good Stories, comes this collection of twenty terrific tales perfect for fans of Roald Dahl, David Walliams and Paul Jennings. Featuring Greek myt ...Show more
Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell
30.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Rainbow Rowell has won fans all over the world by writing about love and life in a way that feels true. In her first short story collection Scattered Showers, she gives us nine beautifully crafted love stories. Girl meets boy camping outside a movie theater. Best friends debate the merits of high schoo ...Show more
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories/Plays
The Crucible is a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America, published in Penguin Modern Classics. Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in ...Show more
How to get Fired by Evana Belich
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Stories about the unifying subject of work - how to get it, avoid it or lose it. Wry, real and astute, these linked stories are from an exciting new talent. In BurgerKai, Mel is given a motivational talk on what she says is 'failing at a stupid, screwed-up sales job, selling stupid plastic shelving'. He ...Show more
Gleanings (Arc of a Scythe #3.5) by Neal Shusterman
23.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Arc of a Scythe
The New York Times bestselling Arc of a Scythe series continues with thrilling stories that span the timeline. Storylines continue. Origin stories are revealed. And new Scythes emerge...There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity a ...Show more