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Rebound by Kwame Alexander
$20.00 NZD
Category: Verse Novels
'Hoop kings SOAR in kicks with wings. Game so sweet it's like bee stings.' It's 1988. Charlie Bell is still mourning his father, and struggling to figure out how he feels for his best (girl) friend, CJ. When he gets into trouble one too many times, he's packed off to stay with his grandparents for the ...Show more
Wrecked by Louisa Reid
$19.00 NZD
Category: Verse Novels
Joe and Imogen seem like the perfect couple - they've been in a relationship for years and are the envy of their friends at school. But after accidentally becoming involved a tragic fatal accident, they become embroiled in a situation out of their control, and Joe and Imogen's relationship becomes slowl ...Show more
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
$22.00 NZD
Category: Verse Novels
With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering? 12-year-old Josh and his twin Jordan have basketball in their blood. They're kings of the court, star players for their school team. Their father used to be a c ...Show more
Blood Moon by Lucy Cuthew
$22.00 NZD
Category: Verse Novels
This powerful, timely novel in verse exposes provocative truths about periods, sex, shame, and going viral for all the wrong reasons. After school one day, Frankie, a lover of physics and astronomy, has her first sexual experience with quiet and gorgeous Benjamin--and gets her period. It's only blood, ...Show more
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
$23.00 NZD
Category: Verse Novels
The stunning new novel in verse from the 2019 Carnegie Medal winning author of The Poet X. Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people.. ...Show more
Beauty Mark by Carole Boston Weatherford
$37.00 NZD
Category: Verse Novels
In a powerful novel in verse, an award-winning author offers an eye-opening look at the life of Marilyn Monroe. From the day she was born into a troubled home to her reigning days as a Hollywood icon, Marilyn Monroe (n e Norma Jeane Mortenson) lived a life that was often defined by others. Here, in a l ...Show more
A Kid in My Class by Rachel Rooney
$28.00 NZD
Category: Verse Novels
This first collaboration between a prize-winning poet and the former UK Children's Laureate takes a whole classful of children, plus the class hamster, and draws deft portraits of them all: the pushy, the shy, the dreamy, the daring, the ordinary, the one who wants to be best friends, the one who runs i ...Show more
Moonrise by Sarah Crossan
$19.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
With little money or support, 17-year-old Joe Moon travels to Texas to help the older brother he barely knows through his last few weeks before being executed for murder. Carnegie Medalist Crossan ("One") pens a poignant novel about one of the most divisive issues of our time.
Kiss of Broken Glass by Madeleine Kuderick
$20.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Madeleine Kuderick's gripping debut is a darkly beautiful and lyrical novel in verse, perfect for fans of Sonya Sones and Laurie Halse Anderson. Kiss of Broken Glass pulses with emotion and lingers long after the last page. In the next seventy-two hours, Kenna may lose everything-her friends, her freedo ...Show more
Finding Baba Yaga by Jane Yolen
$20.00 NZD
Category: Verse Novels
Finding Baba Yaga is a mythic yet timely novel-in-verse by the beloved and prolific New York Times bestselling author and poet Jane Yolen, "the Hans Christian Andersen of America" (Newsweek). A young woman discovers the power to speak up and take control of her fate--a theme that has never been more ti ...Show more
When My Sister Started Kissing by Helen Frost
$40.00 NZD
Category: Verse Novels
From Printz Honor author Helen Frost, a middle grade novel in verse about the summer everything changes for two sisters.
Pookie Aleera is Not My Boyfriend by Steven Herrick
$21.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
In a country town, in a school just like yours, the kids in Class 6A tell their stories. There's Mick, school captain and sometimes trouble-maker, who wants to make the school a better place, while his younger brother Jacob just wants to fly. There's shy and lonely Laura who hopes to finally fit in with ...Show more