YA reads from outstanding ANZ authors
By Old Barn Books
YA reads from outstanding ANZ authors
By Old Barn Books
The highly-charged award-winning debut of an Australian First Nations woman; a coming-of-age novel set in earthquake-riven Christchurch, by one of New Zealand’s foremost authors; Paul Jennings powerful story about coming to terms with grief and Glenda Millard's Carnegie Medal-shortlisted bestseller: explore the other side of the world with these great novels, for everyone aged about 14+.
The Lorikeet Tree: First love, sibling trouble and the healing power of nature
Paul Jennings
£7.99 £7.59
Eddy, Eddy
Kate de Goldi
£8.99 £8.54Eddy Smallbone is grappling with identity, love, loss and religion. It’s two years since he blew up his school life and the earthquakes felled his city. Home life is maddening. His pet-minding job is expanding in peculiar directions. And now the past and the future have come calling – in unexpected form. Kate De Goldi’s heartfelt and humorous exploration of sorrow and healing displays all the empathy and linguistic dexterity that have made her one of New Zealand’s best contemporary authors.
Ghost Bird
LISA FULLER
£7.99 £7.59A thrilling, multi award-winning YA ghost story, from a First Nations Australian author, drawing on the culture and spiritual beliefs of her close-knit community. Stacey and Laney are twins and mirror images of each other, but as different as the sun and the moon. Stacey wants to go places. do things and be someone different while Laney just wants to skip school and sneak out of the house to meet her boyfriend. When Laney doesn't come home one night, Stacey starts to have terrible nightmares. She can see her twin in her dreams and she knows she isn't dead, but finding her means going to forbidden places. Can Stacey reach Laney before it's too late?