Category: NZ Senior Fiction
Fourteen-year-old Beatrice Thomas lives with her widowed mother and younger sister Tilly in a small country town overshadowed by the events of World War One. Many of the local boys, including Beaty's friend Caleb, are away fighting. When Beaty has to leave school, she gets a job as a telegram girl at th ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
This alternate history coming-of-age YA is the Winner of the 2018 Storylines Tessa Duder Award. “An inferior people, that’s what the Director called us at the beginning of his reign, but still useful.” There are two peoples living in the city of Ursa: the Cerels and the Travesters. ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
In Lush Valley, it’s a crime to even talk about dragons… When Ezaara meets Zaarusha the Dragon Queen, she’s swept up in a blaze of color and they imprint, forming a deep bond. She must give up her home and family to become the new Queen’s Rider. Ignorant and unprepared, how can ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Series: Blood of the Lamb
Maryam fights for her life, freedom and love in this stunning finale to the Blood of the Lamb series. Maryam and Lazarus arrive back at Onewere and Maryam, in trying to loosen the Apostles' religious stranglehold by showing the people the miraculous remedy, is captured. The ruling elite decide to manipu ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
Life for Sione and his mates at Manawahe East High in South Auckland is pretty sweet - a slice of heaven. But one day when they are in after-school detention there's an emergency. Another school has turned up for a softball game but the Manawahe Junior Boys team has gone AWOL. Sione, TJ, Hieu, Jordan an ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Series: Juno
Juno, a young teen on the verge of adulthood, struggles with her need to fit in and belong and her growing discomfort and questioning of her society's rules. Juno lives in the not-too-distant future on Taris, a bubble-covered island in the Pacific, to which a few hundred people fled when Earth's inhabit ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
Why do Fin and Danny hate Old Man Wilson so much? And what happens when they decide to take revenge? PAY BACK But there's more to this story than Fin and Danny realise. With a ghost sitting at his table and zombies in the walls, Old Man Wilson is more than a match for two twelve year old boys. Or is he? ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Series: Ash
The gripping sequel to the prize-winning thriller The Nature of Ash. Ash McCarthy thought he had done enough by broadcasting his story to the world, exposing the corruption and lies of Prime Minister Chandler and his cronies. With his small band of friends and family on a remote campsite in the backcoun ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Series: Ash
A prize-winning, fast-paced thriller that explores love and loss, assumptions and prejudices, truth and fiction, and the many faces of 'family'. Ash McCarthy thinks he finally has it made, revelling in the freedom of being a student. But life is about to take a drastic turn when two police officers knoc ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
An exciting historical fantasy YA by award-winning New Zealand author Sherryl Jordan. ¿Words hold a terrible power. They can break a heart, or give it a reason to live. They can grant freedom ¿ or begin a war.¿ In a world where it is a crime to speak against injustice, a jester dare ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Series: Salt Trilogy | Reading Level: Very Good
The third instalment of Maurice Gee's breathtaking Salt series - now rejacketed. What is the source of the Limping Man's monstrous power? Nobody can withstand it, a soft crawling that seeps into your skin and wriggles into your mind, making you powerless with love for him even as his cruelties multiply. ...Show more
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
A brand-new edition of the Carnegie Medal-winning THE CHANGEOVER - written by internationally bestselling author, Margaret Mahy. 'A gorgeous, strange, unforgettable story . . . I more than loved it' Laini Taylor - author of Daughter of Smoke and Bone 'A clammy hand pressed Laura down onto her knees b ...Show more
