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Beck by Mal Peet; Meg Rosoff
22.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Both harrowing and life-affirming, the final novel from Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet is the sweeping coming-of-age adventure of a mixed race boy transported to North America. Born from a street liaison between a poor young woman and an African sailor in the 1900s, Beck is soon orphaned and sen ...Show more
Cloud Tea Monkeys by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham
18.00 NZD
Category: Stories from Around the World
Monkeys come to the rescue of a struggling family in this traditional tale from a Carnegie Medal winner. Tashi lives in a tiny village below the tea plantations where her mother earns a living. One day her mother falls ill, and Tashi must pick tea to earn the money for a doctor. But she is too small to ...Show more
Exposure: Nothing Falls as Fast as a Star (Paul Faustino #3) by Mal Peet
24.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Paul Faustino
Carnegie Medalist Mal Peet takes a searing look at the world of soccer and pop-celebrity culture -- and the lives of three street kids caught in its glare. (Age 14 and up) When a black South American soccer star signs on to a team in the country's racist south, headlines blare. And when he falls for ...Show more
Good Boy by Mal Peet
18.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
Sandie has been battling it since childhood: the hulking, snarling black dog of her nightmares. For years, her precious pet dog Rabbie has kept the monster at bay, but when he is no longer there to protect her, the black dog reappears to stalk Sandie in her sleep... Illuminating the undeniable power of ...Show more
Keeper (#1 Paul Faustino) by Mal Peet
28.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Paul Faustino
An enthralling story of a poor and gawky kid who mysteriously becomes the world's greatest goalkeeper - a seamless blend of magic realism and exhilarating soccer action. "And you found it, this thing you were looking for?" It was darker now, and the city below Faustino's office was a jazzy dance of neo ...Show more
Keeper (#1 Paul Faustino) by Mal Peet
20.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Paul Faustino
When Paul Faustino of LA NACION flips on his tape recorder for an exclusive interview with El Gato -- the phenomenal goalkeeper who single-handedly brought his team the World Cup -- the seasoned reporter quickly learns that this will be no ordinary story. Instead, the legendary El Gato narrates a spellb ...Show more
Life: an Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet
22.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Carnegie Medalist Mal Peet ignites an epic tale of young love against the dramatic backdrop of the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Can love survive a lifetime? When working-class Clem Ackroyd falls for Frankie Mortimer, the gorgeous daughter of a wealthy local landowner, he has no hope that i ...Show more
Tamar by Mal Peet
23.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century earlier. Unravelling, it will transform the younger Tamar's life. ...Show more
The Family Tree by Mal Peet
19.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
When a man returns to his childhood home and visits the derelict tree house in which his father once chose to live, he recalls the past unravelling of his family, the unspoken strangeness of their lives, and the impact on his own adult life. Beautiful, sparse and insightful storytelling.
The Penalty (#2 Paul Faustino) by Mal Peet
25.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Paul Faustino
As the city of San Juan pulses to summer's sluggish beat, its teenage soccer prodigy, El Brujito, the Little Magician, vanishes without a trace-right after he misses a penalty kick and loses a big game for his team. Sports reporter Paul Faustino is reluctantly drawn into the mystery of the athlete's dis ...Show more
The Treasure of Pirate Frank by Mal Peet; Elspeth Graham
19.00 NZD
Category: General Picture Books
A boy and his dog set sail, braving challenging obstacles before finally reaching the treasure of Pirate Frank. But there's a surprise in store when they discover that Pirate Frank is a girl. And no one is going to steal her treasure! Full color.
The Treasure of Pirate Frank (HB) by Mal Peet & Elspeth Graham
28.00 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
A boy and his dog set sail in search of treasure, braving stormy seas ...mountains snowy and cold ...the forest where the monkeys swing ...the swamp where the bullfrogs sing ...and other challenging obstacles, before finally reaching the end of their quest. But wait! Pirate Frank is A GIRL! And she does ...Show more
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