Aspiring by Damien Wilkins

$22.00 NZD

Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good

An engaging, funny and moving novel about a boy trying to make sense of it all. Fifteen-year-old Ricky lives in Aspiring, a town that’s growing at an alarming rate. Ricky’s growing, too — 6’7”, and taller every day. But he’s stuck in a loop: student, uncommitted basketballer, and puzzled son, burdened b y his family’s sadness. And who’s the weird guy in town with a chauffeur and half a Cadillac? What about the bits of story that invade his head? Uncertain what’s real — and who he is — Ricky can’t stop sifting for clues. He has no idea how things will end up . . . With sunlight, verve and humour, award-winning writer Damien Wilkins brings us a beguiling boy who’s trying to make sense of it all. ...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

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

Catch Me When You Fall by Eileen Merriman

$20.00 NZD

Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction

A love story peppered with sadness and featuring two heroes who will break your heart and then mend it again. Alex meets Jamie at the same time as finding out that her leukaemia has returned. She discovers that he is bipolar, but he is also irresistible. It complicates things. Alex and Jamie sweep reade rs up and carry them with them in this story of love, struggle, courage and hope. ...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

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

Afakasi Woman by Lani Wendt Young

$29.00 NZD

Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction | Reading Level: near fine

A collection of 24 short stories; the joys and tribulations of being a woman in Samoa and the struggles brought to an island nation by climate change.

Ocean's Kiss (Telesa World) by Lani Wendt Young

$29.00 NZD

Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction | Series: The Covenant Keeper

Ocean’s Kiss is a Telesa World novel, inspired by the warrior goddesses of Pasifika mythology. A stranger from Daniel Tahi’s past appears bringing vital secrets and memories long thought lost. Now it appears that though Pele the fire goddess may have been defeated, there are others who still hold Leila Folger responsible for crimes of the past. ...Show more

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

$25.00 NZD

Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction

Perfect for fans of The Last Magician and Descendant of the Crane, this heart-stopping debut is an imaginative Romeo and Juliet retelling set in 1920s Shanghai, with rival gangs and a monster in the depths of the Huangpu River. The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery. A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang-a network of criminals far above the law. Their only rivals in power are the White Flowers, who have fought the Scarlets for generations. And behind every move is their heir, Roma Montagov, Juliette's first love...and first betrayal. But when gangsters on both sides show signs of instability culminating in clawing their own throats out, the people start to whisper. Of a contagion, a madness. Of a monster in the shadows. As the deaths stack up, Juliette and Roma must set their guns-and grudges-aside and work together, for if they can't stop this mayhem, then there will be no city left for either to rule. "Heady, smart, and vicious, These Violent Delights strikes every note with precision, layering romance and politics into a roaring 20s Shanghai of both monsters and monstrous imperialism" - Tessa Gratton, author of The Queens of Innis Lear. ...Show more

Heartsblood (Children of the Furnace #3) by Brin Murray

$26.00 NZD

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

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2020 Three heroes will rise Wil, Jace and Leah were shattered by the horrors of the New Atrocity but must rise to find strength again before it is too late. If they are to stand any chance of stopping High Patriarch Sachs’ vision of a world engulfed by fanaticism, fire and blood, th ey cannot stand alone. They must forge shaky alliances while knowing that in the great battle that is to come, the only friends they can truly trust are themselves. But then Wil is captured and seems destined to repeat his father’s betrayal. The odds against them, already steep, become impossible. Because to save Wil now, they must take on the might of the Revelayshun alone. ‘Hear the rhythm, we said, and feel the heartsblood warm.’ I stand silent awhile. ‘The words still hold true, tho they feel different to me now. Cuz yer gave yer heartsblood for em, is why. They did cost us more’n we can pay. But we’ve come this far, so can’t leave off now.Have to make yer all count.’ ...Show more

Helen and the Go-Go Ninjas by Michael Bennett

$30.00 NZD

Category: General Graphic Books

Kidnapped by time-travelling ninjas, Helen is thrust into the year 2355 - a ruined future with roving gangs and 'Peace Balls', giant humming devices that enslave and control people's minds. The Go-Go Ninjas have one goal -to destroy the Peace Balls. They believe that Helen knows how. Can Helen use her k nowledge of the past to help them save the future? An electrifying graphic novel by award-winning authors. ...Show more