Violet Black (#1 Black Spiral Trilogy) by Eileen Merriman

$20.00 NZD

Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction

Set in the near future, this first book in a fast-paced trilogy will hook you in from the first page. Violet Black and Ethan Wright are both in a coma after contracting the lethal M-fever. They have never met. - I couldn't speak, but I was trying so hard to communicate and then . . . then . . . I push ed. And something, someone, pushed back. Her name is Violet. Violet, but she is sunshine-yellow, and I need to find her because I think she might be just like me. But there is a far more serious reason for Ethan to find Violet- the sinister Foundation is trying to hunt them down.  ...Show more

Displaced by Cristina Sanders

$22.00 NZD

Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction

An enthralling historical novel of immigration, courage and first love from an award-winning New Zealand author. Eloise and her family must leave Cornwall on a treacherous sea journey to start a new life in 1870s colonial New Zealand. On the ship across, Eloise meets Lars, a Norwegian labourer travellin g below decks, and their lives begin to intertwine. When her brother disappears, her father leaves and the family are left to fend for themselves in their new home, Eloise must find the strength to stand up for what she believes in and the people she loves. ...Show more

The Fire Keeper's Girls by L. P. Hansen

$26.00 NZD

Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction

Rebel teenage cousins Gemma and Alice are sent to spend summer at a lonely beach with Samantha, an eccentric woman they barely know. Encountering a mysterious and supportive web of real-life women, the pair become players in what is called The Game. Samantha is revealed as the Game's Fire Keeper and giv es each girl a gift to summon help in times of danger. Back in the city, Gemma's life is threatened, while Alice's tormentors wait in her own family. ...Show more

Fire's Caress: A Telesa World Novel by Lani Wendt Young

$29.00 NZD

Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction | Series: Telesa World

Long ago, Tangaloa cast a fiery net upon the waters and drew forth the ocean's might –in the crashing waves and surging tides that speak to Masina the moon. In Fire's Caress the story continues with the next generation of Telesa. She's the brilliant sculptor taking the art world by storm, a daughter of Samoa returning home. He's the fiery remnant of her past, who appears on what should be a night of triumph, weighted with dark secrets that could destroy them both. Can Teuila and Keahi find their way, even as a deadly threat emerges? Because there's a new power on island, malevolent and hungry. His name is Marc Gold. His billion dollar vision of a virus-free Sanctuary in Samoa for the world's rich and privileged, threatens to wipe out an ancient settlement of the Aitu and awakens their retribution. There is a battle coming and it is one that could destroy them all. This is a Telesa World novel which continues the stories of key characters from the Telesa Series. It can be read as a standalone book. ...Show more

Bugs by Whiti Hereaka

$25.00 NZD

Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction

Bugs is about the unfolding lives of three young people in their last year of school in small-town New Zealand. Life is slow, and it seems not much happens in town or in Jez and Bugs's lives. But when Stone Cold arrives, the three come to different conclusions about how to deal with being trapped in a s mall town and at the bottom of the heap. ...Show more

Flight of the Fantail by Steph Matuku

$30.00 NZD

Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction

A busload of high school students crashes in the bush in a remote part of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Only a few of the teenagers survive; they find their phones don't work, there's no food, and they've only got their wits to keep them alive. There's also something strange happening here. Why are the teenage rs having nosebleeds and behaving erratically, and why is the rescue effort slow to arrive? To make it out, they have to discover what's really going on and who or what is behind it all. ...Show more

Sprigs by Brannavan Gnanalingam

$35.00 NZD

Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction

It is Saturday afternoon and two boys' schools are locked in battle for college rugby supremacy. Priya - a fifteen year old who barely belongs - watches from the sidelines. Then it is Saturday night and the team is partying, Priya's friends have evaporated and she isn't sure what to do. In the weeks aft er 'the incident' life seems to go on. But when whispers turn to confrontation, the institutions of wealth and privilege circle the wagons. Sprigs is the latest novel from Brannavan Gnanalingam. His previous novel Sodden Downstream (Lawrence and Gibson, 2017) was short-listed for the Acorn Foundation prize for best fiction of the year. He is also the author of A Briefcase, Two Pies and a Penthouse and three other books published by Lawrence and Gibson. ...Show more

We All Fall by Helen Vivienne Fletcher

$22.00 NZD

Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction

The Heart Casts No Shadow by Susan Holt

$30.00 NZD

Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction

Will Rhonwyn free her heart and her people, or become the pawn of the most dangerous man ever seen? When her skill at a complex strategy game gives her a way into the palace, Rhonwyn becomes the eyes and ears of the Resistance. She's there to help bring down the evil King Risick - the man who seized co ntrol and forced her people into his mines. The man who killed Rhonwyn's father before her eyes, breaking her heart and fracturing her sanity. Everything changes when she meets a vibrant man who's also trapped in the palace. Rhonwyn's not so alone now and her soul begins to heal. But his dangerous secret forces Rhonwyn to choose between the freedom of her people and the love she's finally found. ...Show more

Crosstrees (Children of the Furnace #2) by Brin Murray

$26.00 NZD

Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction | Series: Children of the Furnace

`What we won was a small battle,' says Jace flat. `They'll be coming, fore we can turn this into a war.' Wil and Leah saved Jace from the Revout's Fires - but find out now, that was just the beginning. The Revelayshun's soldiers are riding to hunt down the Midwife. Only she can lead them to Wil's siste r, and the Truth That Will Change Everything. While Revout Sachs secretly plans a cruelty so depraved, it will become known as the New Atrocity. Leah pulls away, and kisses me with soft lips, and whispers: `Ride, Wil. Save the Midwife.' And the world too, while I'm about it. ...Show more

Half My Life by Diana Noonan

$24.00 NZD

Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction

Katie struggles with anxiety and compulsive behaviour disorders. She self-harms and is seeing a counsellor. When she starts dating it only increases her anxieties. Then her parents hear her Yiayia (grandmother) is ill in Greece and may be dying. The family decide to visit. Reluctant at first Katie event ually decides to embrace the trip as a way to learn about her Greek family but the visit uncovers some dark family secrets. A novel that explores the fragility of families, and the damage that can be wrought when unresolved issues of one generation shape the lives of the next. Also a story about hope, and the ability of families to survive and heal damaged relationships. ...Show more

Deadhead by Glen Wood

$30.00 NZD

Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction

The story starts with the death of Constable Garrett... and continues with his resurrection as a conscious cyborg initially controlled by Spencer Langley aged 13, inventor, entrepreneur and car thief. Things get even more complicated with the introduction of sinister criminals and Garrett's ex partner. Includes graphic replays every third chapter for the entertainment of all. ...Show more