The History Speech by Mark Sweet
32.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
It is 1960s provincial New Zealand, and a set of upper middle class families enjoy the good life together. But just under the surface of the conventionality, there are undercurrents. Adolescent Callum Gow's father is a bully, his mother is having an affair, and there are secrets about abuse, suicide and ...Show more
Whakaari by Marion Day
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Roa, fifteen, lives close to Whakaari/White Island and hangs out with her street gang. She has too many dads, and using the volcano as a metaphor for her feelings, she tells her story in days, weeks and months. Meanwhile, she and her mother Huia both flashback to the past. Huia reveals how her choice o ...Show more
Alex - The Quartet by Tessa Duder
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
The award-winning Alex books, which first appeared in the 1980s, are to be reprinted in one omnibus edition in October 2019. Tessa Duder's series covers Alex Archer's life from early in 1959, vying for selection for the Rome Olympics, her struggles during the winter of 1960, her experiences in Rome in A ...Show more
I am Daniel Tahi (#4 Telesa) by Lani Wendt Young
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction | Series: Telesa
"So how did it all start? What did I think of Leila when I first saw her? Did I think she was breathtakingly beautiful the first moment I laid eyes on her? No. Did I fall madly in love with her on that first day we met? No... What did I notice first then? Her anger. She reeked of it." A novella that spe ...Show more
Here Upon the Tide by Blair McMillan
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
When Amir’s city in Syria is bombed as civil war erupts, his father makes a fateful decision. Amir soon finds himself on a perilous journey by land and sea, with little hope of reaching his destination. Milly is still reeling from the aftermath of earthquakes in her home city of Christchurch. Her only r ...Show more
A Trio of Sophies by Eileen Merriman
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Secrets, lies and love. A missing girl, a secret diary and unsettling revelations . . . Today is the first of September, the first day of spring, and it’s been sixty-four days since I last saw Sophie Abercrombie. It's been sixty-four days since anyone saw Sophie Abercrombie. The prettiest Sophie. The mi ...Show more
Take Flight (Generation Icarus #2) by J. L. Pawley
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction | Series: Generation Icarus
The Flight is recovering in a remote mountain hideaway. They think they're safe, but they couldn't be more wrong. When Evolutionary Corp mercenaries in helicopters hunt them down, only Condor and Kestrel manage to escape. With nowhere else to turn and desperate for help to save their friends, the two fl ...Show more
Gracehopper by Mandy Hager
29.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Eighteen-year-old Grace has struggled all her life with her place in this family and in the world. Obviously of Asian descent, she has been unable to get the truth about her parentage from her mother, a woman who is struggling with her own demons, that date back to her life in Taiwan where she survived ...Show more
Mortal Fire by Elizabeth Knox
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
A mysterious and compelling literary fantasy that weaves magic, mathematics, love, family-and riddles within riddles-from the author of international sensation The Absolute Book, Elizabeth Knox. Sixteen-year-old Canny Mochrie has always been different; she has a calculating, mathematical mind and she s ...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 ...Show more
Nanotech by Denis Wright
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
High School students on a science field trip to Auckland are captured by white supremacist group NAB, whose target is American biologist Professor Meinhoff. He's made a startling and dangerous breakthrough in molecular biology - a virus that could destroy entire ethnic groups if it falls into the wrong ...Show more
Underwater by Helen Vivienne Fletcher
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Bailey has a lot of secrets, and a lot of scars, both of which shed like to keep hidden. Unfortunately, Pine Hills Resort isnt the kind of place where anyone can keep anything hidden for long. When Bailey arrives, she just wants to get through summer quietly, spending as much time in the water as she ca ...Show more