The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
$25.00 NZD
Category: Young Adults | Reading Level: very good
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up an object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, and it is her first act of book thieve ...Show more
Mister Memory by Marcus Sedgwick
$25.99 NZD
Category: Young Adults
A dazzling literary mystery from prizewinning author Marcus Sedgwick, for fans of Scarlett Thomas, Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Patrick Suskind. In Paris, in the year 1899, Marcel Despres is arrested for the murder of his wife and transferred to Salpetriere asylum. And so the story might have stopped. But this ...Show more
The Last Adventure of Napoleon Sunshine by Pascal Ruter
$26.00 NZD
Category: Young Adults | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
At the age of eighty-five my grandfather Napoleon decided he needed to try something new . . .Everything starts to go south when Napoleon leaves his wife. An eighty-five-year-old former boxer with a restless, youthful spirit, Napoleon decides to say to hell with it all! He wants a new life. With his ten ...Show more
Hollow City (#2 Miss Peregrine's Children) by Ransom Riggs
$25.00 NZD
Category: Young Adults | Series: Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children | Reading Level: very good
Read the sequel to the New York Times #1 best-selling book. The movie adaptation of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is now a major motion picture from visionary director Tim Burton, staring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Ella Purnell, Samual L. Jackson, and Judi Dench.Like its predecessor, this ...Show more
The White Hare by Michael Fishwick
$25.00 NZD
Category: Young Adults
The one who doesn't go straight home, the traitor, The friendless one, the cat of the wood...' A lost boy. A dead girl, and one who is left behind. Robbie doesn't want anything more to do with death, but life in a village full of whispers and secrets can't make things the way they were. When the white h ...Show more
The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgwick
$20.00 NZD
Category: Young Adults
'Do monsters always stay in the book where they were born? Are they content to live out their lives on paper, and never step foot into the real world?' The Villa Diodati, on the shore of Lake Geneva, 1816: the Year without Summer. As Byron, Polidori, and Mr and Mrs Shelley shelter from the unexpected w ...Show more
The Ethan I Was Before by Ali Standish
$20.00 NZD
Category: Young Adults | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Life can be transformed in one moment, but does that one moment define you for life? Lost in the Sun meets The Thing About Jellyfish in Ali Standish’s breathtaking debut. A poignant middle grade novel of friendship and forgiveness, The Ethan I Was Before is a classic in the making.Ethan had been many th ...Show more
The Edge by Alan Gibbons
$23.99 NZD
Category: Young Adults | Reading Level: From 11 To 99
Danny and his mother are on the run from her boyfriend Chris, a violent man who beats them both up. Chris pursues them from London to the north, where they take refuge with Danny's grandparents. But even there, nothing is safe. Danny is conspicuous as the only mixed-race boy in the community.
The War I Finally Won (#2 War) by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
$24.00 NZD
Category: Young Adults | Series: Ada
Like the classic heroines, Ada conquers the homefront as her World War II journey continues in this sequel to the Newbery Honor-winning The War that Saved My Life. When Ada's clubfoot is surgically fixed at last, she knows for certain that she's not what her mother said she was-crippled mentally as well ...Show more
The Sidekicks by Will Kostakis
$24.00 NZD
Category: Young Adults
Ryan, Harley and Miles are very different people -- the swimmer, the rebel and the nerd. All they've ever had in common is Isaac, their shared best friend. When Isaac dies unexpectedly, the three boys must come to terms with their grief and the impact Isaac had on each of their lives. In his absence, Ry ...Show more
I am Rebecca by Fleur Beale
$19.99 NZD
Category: Young Adults | Series: The Pilgrim Family | Reading Level: very good
Life inside a religious cult becomes too much for 16-year-old Rebecca when she finds out who she is to marry. When she turns 14, Rebecca will find out who she is to marry. All the girls in her strict religious sect must be married just after their 16th birthdays.Her twin sister Rachel desperately wants ...Show more
Damage Done by Amanda Panitch
$21.00 NZD
Category: Young Adults
22 minutes separate Julia Vann's before and after. Before: Julia had a twin brother, a boyfriend, and a best friend. After: She has a new identity, a new hometown, and a memory of those twenty-two minutes that refuses to come into focus. At least, that's what she tells the police. Now that she's Lucy Bl ...Show more