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
He Said, She Said by Kwame Alexander
26.00 NZD
Category: Verse Novels
Sparks will fly in this hip-hop-hot teen novel that mixes social protest and star-crossed romance, from Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Honor winning author Kwame Alexander! He Said, She Said is perfect for fans of Walter Dean Myers and Rachel Vail alike. This paperback edition includes a Q&A ...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
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
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
Under the Broken Sky by Mariko Nagai
20.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
Twelve-year-old Natsu and her family live a quiet farm life in Manchuria, near the border of the Soviet Union. But the life they've known begins to unravel when her father is recruited to the Japanese army, and Natsu and her little sister, Cricket, are left orphaned and destitute. In a desperate move to ...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
Birdy by Sharon Kernot
26.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
An exquisite young adult verse novel that delves into the pain of loss and trauma and the healing balm of friendship, from the highly acclaimed author of The Art of Taxidermy. Maddy is mute. Since the Incident she has barely spoken. And now she and her mother and brother are staying in a farmhouse on an ...Show more