Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
$24.00 NZD
Category: Real World | Reading Level: near fine
A New York Times BestsellerThis masterful work of historical fiction is inspired by the real-life tragedy that was the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff -- the greatest maritime disaster in history. As she did in Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys unearths a shockingly little-known casualty of a gruesom ...Show more
Into the World (Devon #2) by Ted Dawe
$25.00 NZD
Category: Real World | Series: Devon
"I've learnt plenty, Mr Faull, but it all comes down to this: there is freedom and then there is everything else." He opened the door. "And today I give away everything else, and I choose freedom." - Into the River So ends the first part of Devon's journey, from nearly drowning in a tapu river to his ex ...Show more
Evie's War by Anna Mackenzie
$24.99 NZD
Category: Real World | Reading Level: very good
They offered up the innocence of a generation...Evie is 18, straight out of school and excited by the prospect of a tour of Europe. Instead, she finds herself immersed in war; first in the Home Counties - where the young New Zealander is confronted not only by society's restrictions and her family's exp ...Show more
Ship Wreck Stranger, The by Mackenzie Anna
$19.99 NZD
Category: Real World
Ness, Ty and their cousin Sophie live in a small island community, a community dominated by superstition, fear and loss. Following an environmental catastrophe, the people of Dunnett Island have turned their back on the sea that once sustained them, and on their past. When a stranger arrives, washed up ...Show more
Donnel's Promise (Cattra #2) by Anna Mackenzie
$24.99 NZD
Category: Real World | Series: Cattra
An absorbing fantasy for young adult readers. Feisty heroine Risha becomes the rightful heir to her mother's kingdom, but is caught between two armies and her own tangled allegiances. Donnel's Promise is the sequel to Cattra's Legacy u award-wining YA writer Anna Mackenzie's stunning young adult novel s ...Show more
Cattra's Legacy (#1) by Anna Mackenzie
$24.99 NZD
Category: Real World | Series: Cattra
Magnificent YA fantasy adventure story-telling with a romance at its heart. This is a richly imagined story, beautifully and forcefully written. Risha is strong and outspoken, and at 16 develops into a leader of men, a clear, strategic thinker and a woman whom, one can imagine, will be able to take up ...Show more
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
$24.00 NZD
Category: Real World | Series: Wonder | Reading Level: very good
My name is August. I won't describe to you what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse. Ten-year-old August Pullman wants to be ordinary. He does ordinary things. He eats ice-cream. He plays on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But Auggie is far from ordinary. Born with a terribl ...Show more
Class A (#2 CHERUB) by Robert Muchamore
$19.99 NZD
Category: Real World | Series: Cherub | Reading Level: 11-14
The second title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! James' mission is to try where dozens of attempts by undercover police officers have failed ... When CHERUB kids go undercover, no one suspects that they are trained professionals, working to infiltrate criminal organisations that have eluded ...Show more
Finder's Shore (The Sea-Wreck Stranger #3) by Anna Mackenzie
$19.99 NZD
Category: Real World | Series: The Sea-Wreck Stranger
The follow-up to Ebony Hill, shortlisted for 2010 NZ Post Children's Book Awards and CLF Notable Book of 2010. A year on from the aggressive attacks against them, the farming community at Ebony Hill still shows the cracks. Everyone is uneasy - workers watch their backs when out in the fields. When it be ...Show more
Ebony Hill (The Sea-Wreck Stranger #2) by Anna Mackenzie
$19.99 NZD
Category: Real World | Series: The Sea-Wreck Stranger
Ness is looking out to sea, waiting for the arrival of Dev. It's been two years since the two set out in a dinghy, escaping the wrath of the Islanders of Dunnett; two years since their shrivelled and sun-battered bodies were coaxed back to health by Dev's people. Ness's new home, the city of Vidya, is i ...Show more
Shadow of the Mountain by Anna Mackenzie
$19.99 NZD
Category: Real World | Reading Level: very good
Sixteen-year-old Geneva has decided to confront one of her worst fears. As a tribute to her brother, who died in a climbing accident some months ago, she decides to join a climbing group, and train to get up the peak that Stephen was aiming for when he died. Geneva hides her plan from her parents, guess ...Show more