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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.
Becoming Muhammad Ali by Kwame Alexander; James Patterson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
From two heavy-hitters in children's literature comes a critically acclaimed biographical novel of cultural icon Muhammad Ali. *"This utterly delightful story about Ali's childhood is a smash hit." --School Library Journal (starred review) Five starred reviews Before he was a household name, Cassius C ...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
In the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido
$19.00 NZD
Category: Verse Novels
An original, inventive and heart-warming novel from an exciting debut author about a lonely new girl and an unlikely friendship formed in a school code club that will appeal to fans of Sarah Crossan. When twelve-year-old Emmy's musical family moves to California so her dad can take a job with the San Fr ...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
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.
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
Sold by Patricia McCormick
$23.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when th ...Show more
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
The Art of Taxidermy by Sharon Kernot
$24.00 NZD
Category: Verse Novels
Lottie collects dead creatures and lovingly cares for them, hoping to preserve them, to save them from disintegration. Her father understands - Lottie has a scientific mind, he thinks. Her aunt wants it to stop, and she goes to cruel lengths to make sure it does. And her mother? Lottie's mother died lon ...Show more