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
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
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
What Snail Knows: CBCA Notable Book 2023 by Kathryn Apel
18.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
A moving story about a shy girl coming out of her shell with a little help from her pet snailLucy and Dad move a lot, so it's hard to make friends.Luckily, she has Snail, the perfect pet for a lonely girl. If only she had her own shell to hide in when she started at a new school.But this place is differ ...Show more
Booked by Kwame Alexander
22.00 NZD
Category: Verse Novels
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 nobody cop you... Twelve-year-old Nick is a football-mad boy who absolutely hates books. In this follow-up to the Newbery-winning novel The Crossover, fo ...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
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
The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow
23.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
Life can be tough in your last year of primary school. Tests to take, preparing for the change to high school. Nate is ready for it all, knowing his best friend PS at his side - they' ve been inseparable since Nursery. But when they are put in two different classes and PS finds a new friend in Turner, ...Show more
One by Sarah Crossan
19.00 NZD
Category: Verse Novels
Winner of the Carnegie Medal * Winner of the YA Book Prize * Winner of the Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year Award Tippi and Grace share everything--clothes, friends . . . even their body. Writing in free verse, Sarah Crossan tells the sensitive and moving story of conjoined twin sisters, which ...Show more
Gloves Off by Louisa Reid
19.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
A page-turning and immersive YA novel in verse, telling the story of Lily who is mercilessly bullied at school and who turns to boxing in an attempt to fight back; a story of hope and resilience breaking through even the most difficult situations.Lily turns sixteen with two very different sides to her l ...Show more
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