Grace Notes by Karen Comer
25.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
This song has a grace note, a tiny note that's there for embellishment but can easily be ignored, not played. Tonight, I add it in - just because. We can all do with an extra note of grace. Grace Dalfinch is a talented violinist who longs to play contemporary music in bars, but her mum forbids her. Jam ...Show more
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
24.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book! A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed. Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father ...Show more
The Lost Language by Claudia Mills
21.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
The quest to save the words of a dying language - and to find the words to save what may be a dying friendship - lies at the heart of this exquisite verse novel.Sixth grader Betsy is the one who informs her best friend, Lizard, that thousands of the world's languages are currently threatened by extincti ...Show more
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
22.00 NZD
Category: Verse Novels
With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering? 12-year-old Josh and his twin Jordan have basketball in their blood. They're kings of the court, star players for their school team. Their father used to be a c ...Show more
Singing with Elephants by Margarita Engle
21.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
A powerful novel in verse from Newbery and Pura Belpre Award-winning author Margarita Engle about the friendship between a young girl and the poet Gabriela Mistral that leads to healing and hope for both of them. Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she struggles to ...Show more
Birdy by Sharon Kernot
26.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
An exquisite young adult verse novel that delves into the pain of loss and trauma and the healing balm of friendship, from the highly acclaimed author of The Art of Taxidermy. Maddy is mute. Since the Incident she has barely spoken. And now she and her mother and brother are staying in a farmhouse on an ...Show more
Oxygen Mask: A Graphic Novel by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
25.00 NZD
Category: General Graphic Books
A searing graphic novel from Jason Reynolds and street artist Jason Griffin.And so for anyone who didn't really know what it means to not be able to breathe, REALLY breathe, for generations, now you know. And those who already do, you'll be nodding yep yep, that is exactly how it is...Intimately set wit ...Show more
Rebound by Kwame Alexander
23.00 NZD
Category: Verse Novels
'Hoop kings SOARin kicks with wings.Game so sweetit's like bee stings.'It's 1988. Charlie Bell is still mourning his father, and struggling to figure out how he feels for his best (girl) friend, CJ. When he gets into trouble one too many times, he's packed off to stay with his grandparents for the summe ...Show more
The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga
24.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
An extraordinary new novel from Jasmine Warga, Newbery Honor–winning author of Other Words for Home, about loss and healing—and how friendship can be magical. Cora hasn’t spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year. Despite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief. Cora is ...Show more
Cloud Busting by Malorie Blackman
20.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
Covers issues of self esteem and peer pressure. Despite his Mum's insistence, Sam doesn't want to be friends with Davey, he thinks Davey's a first class, grade A, top of the dung heap moron. But one day Davey saves Sam's life and a bond is formed between them. Sam is still embarrassed to be seen with D ...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