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Can you find happiness anywhere? Anywhere at all?
In the chaos of breaktime, one boy sits perfectly still, alone on top of the wall. Those who don’t know him are baffled. But by the end of his first year at Winfield School, everyone has learned to prize Finley’s gift for quiet contentedness.
Reissue of this ‘perfectly crafted novel, funny, compassionate, rich in characters‘ (Daily Telegraph). Frankie’s carefully controlled world unravels as he is forced to face his one burning unanswered question.
A coming of age story, a love story, an earthquake story and a story of finding your way back from grief. Shortlisted, New Zealand Young Adult Book of the Year.
Ali and his friend Sami are living their dream, playing football for the school team and swimming in their friend Mark’s new luxury pool. But money goes missing and racism rears its ugly head when their friend Aadam is accused of stealing it. Trying to prove Aadam’s innocence will test their friendships and their family loyalties.
Emily loves the bush and the native animals on her family’s reforested property, particularly the beautiful rainbow lorikeets that nest in one of the tallest trees. But then her father is diagnosed with a terminal illness, and Emily’s world enters a tailspin. Her twin brother, Alex, refuses to accept the truth. His coping mechanism is to build elaborate additions to his treehouse in the superstitious belief that it will avert disaster – leaving Emily to deal with harsh reality on her own. When Alex secretly adopts a feral kitten, going against everything that’s important to Emily, the siblings’ emotions reach boiling point – with potentially dangerous consequences for them all.
New dogs need love. But who is caring for the rescue dogs waiting to be adopted from the animal shelter? Madeline Finn is determined to give these dogs the same happy life that she gives her new puppy, Star, and with the help of friends with books and blankets she knows exactly how to do it.
Sami and Ali dream of playing for the school football team. They practise in the park every day and work hard on their skills. But acing the trials is the last of the boys’ worries when they’re made to feel they don’t belong on the team because of the colour of their skin. Ali just wants to tackle the ball on the pitch. Now he’s being forced to tackle the racism in his team too. But how can he, when he’s told it’s ‘just banter’?
Sami and Ali dream of playing for the school football team. They practise in the park every day and work hard on their skills. But acing the trials is the last of the boys’ worries when they’re made to feel they don’t belong on the team because of the colour of their skin. Ali just wants to tackle the ball on the pitch. Now he’s being forced to tackle the racism in his team too. But how can he, when he’s told it’s ‘just banter’? From the award-winning author of ‘Boy, Everywhere’, a powerful story of friendship and booting out racism.
‘The Raven’s Song’ alternates between the stories of Phoenix, who lives in a near-future world impacted by climate change and a devastating pandemic; and Shelby, 100 years in the future in a post-pandemic, post-pollution, post-city world where each community is exactly 350 people sustainably subsisting on 700 hectares. The story of a world that is beginning to fall apart, and a chance to see it all put back together, ‘The Raven’s Song’ is a vision of hope for the future, seen through the eyes of the young people who will fight for it.
Accompanying his engineer father on a work trip, Louie is stranded by an earthquake in an isolated world peopled by ghostly figures. Overwhelmed by the misery of the silent Endlanders and grieving the loss of his own brother, Louie realises there is something he can do to help them all face the future again. But will he find the courage to do it?
Chronicles the harrowing journey taken by Sami and his family from privilege to poverty, across countries and continents, from a comfortable life in Damascus to a prison in Manchester. A story of survival, of family, of bravery … In a world where we are told to see refugees as the ‘other’, this story will remind readers that ‘they’ are also ‘us’.
Madeline Finn does not like to read. Fortunately, she meets Bonnie, a library dog. Reading aloud to Bonnie isn’t so bad. When Madeline Finn gets stuck, Bonnie doesn’t mind. As it turns out, it’s fun to read when you’re not afraid of making mistakes. Bonnie teaches Madeline that it’s Okay to go slow, to keep trying, and to get support from a friend.
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