We Come Apart by Brian Conaghan Sarah Crossan
17.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
YA rising stars Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan join forces to break readers' hearts in this contemporary story of star-cross'd lovers. Jess would never have looked twice at Nicu if her friends hadn't left her in the lurch. Nicu is all big eyes and ill-fitting clothes, eager as a puppy, even when they' ...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
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, t ...Show more
The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander
38.00 NZD
Category: Senior Fiction
From New York Times best-selling author Kwame Alexander comes the first book in a breathtaking trilogy that tells the story of a boy and his epic odyssey across land and sea to a new world.The #1 New York Times bestsellerDreams are today’s answers for tomorrow’s questions.Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin has ...Show more
The Crossing by Manjeet Mann
18.00 NZD
Category: Verse Novels
A trailblazing new novel about two teenagers from opposite worlds; The Crossing is a profound story of hope, grief, and the very real tragedies of the refugee crisis. Natalie's world is falling apart. She's just lost her mum and her brother marches the streets of Dover full of hate and anger. Swimming ...Show more
Booked: Graphic Novel by Kwame Alexander
23.00 NZD
Category: General Graphic Books
Kwame Alexander's acclaimed verse novel Booked is vividly brought to life as a graphic novel with stunning illustrations by star talent Dawud Anyabwile. Like lightning/you strike/fast and free/legs zoom/down field/eyes fixed/on the checkered ball/on the goal/ten yards to go/can’t nobody stop you/can’t ...Show more
On Track by Kathryn Apel
21.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
Everyone says you couldn't get two brothers more different than Shaun and Toby. Toby struggles at school, has a stumbly, fumbly, bumbly body and thinks that Sports Day is the worst day of the year. No matter how hard he tries, he's not good at anything ...except running away from his 'big, better brothe ...Show more
Up From the Sea by Leza Lowitz
21.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
A powerful novel-in-verse about how one teen boy survives the March 2011 tsunami that devastates his coastal Japanese village. "Successfully captures the raw emotions of loss, grief, and what it means to move forward." --BuzzFeed On the day the tsunami strikes, Kai loses nearly everyone and everything ...Show more
After the Death of Anna Gonzales by Terri Fields
20.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
"Did you hear?" "Who told you?" "Do you think it's really true?" Brutally honest and authentic in tone, this collection of voices centers on the suicide of high school freshman Anna Gonzales. Each piece, read alone, portrays a classmate's or teacher's personal reaction to the loss, taken hard by some, b ...Show more
Everything All At Once by Steven Camden
20.00 NZD
Category: Verse Novels
An achingly beautiful collection of poems about one week in a secondary school where everything happens all at once. Zooming in across our cast of characters, we share moments that span everything from hoping to make it to the end of the week, facing it, fitting in, finding friends and falling out, to l ...Show more
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
25.00 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
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
17.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RULE Or, you can call it a gun. That's what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. R ...Show more