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Join Mira on her excruciating but hilarious journey to four different altars in a story about family, friendship and finding your true self, no matter what you're forced to wear. A pitch-perfect teen read from bestselling author Keren David.
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A positive and uplifting book for young people who are queer or curious - and their allies looking to support them. In this empowering and uplifting book, award-winning podcaster Alexis Caught sets out to help queer and curious teenagers explore their LGBTQ+ identity and understa...nding. Alongside the author's personal experiences are first-hand stories from notable LGBTQ+ figures, providing a inclusive account of what it means to grow up queer. With chapters on questioning, coming out, friends and family, love, sex, shame, pride and allyship, this is insightful, thoughtful and reassuring book is essential reading for any questioning teen and their allies looking to support them.
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Pete dreams of being an All Black but life isn't easy - other boys in the rugby team are bigger and stronger, the new principal is trying to take Maori culture away from school, and his annoying daughter wants to be Pete's friend. Stuff that. She's a straight up weirdo! The schoo...l bully wants to smash his face in every chance he gets, and on top of that, his best mate isn't being himself lately. What's going on with him?
A book where young characters begin to question their world in Aotearoa. Was land stolen off Maori years ago? If so, what does that mean now? Why was there a war between Maori and Europeans on the banks of the Waikato river? How different are New Zealand Maori from New Zealand Europeans today, and how different did their cultures used to be?
When it seems like everything is against Pete, he has to stand up and fight for what he believes in, and he learns that help can come from the most surprising places.
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Book 1 of the gritty, fast-paced, thought-provoking The Eternity Loop series. Promise you will never, ever mess with time . . . Both Rigel and Indigo are Offspring, born to virally optimised parents. With dire warnings about the possible consequences of time travel, they have bee...n forbidden from even thinking about it. But Indigo is bored - what could really go wrong? She is longing for excitement, which she might just find with the enigmatic Billy Raven. Rigel meanwhile has an odd feeling that's difficult to shake off. Might it be because his dad, Johnno (aka Phoenix), is off on another dangerous mission, or because his mum, Violet, has a weakened heart because of what the Foundation did to her? Or is something else going on? Only time will tell.
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By Hill, David
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A tense, exciting war adventure inspired by the coastwatchers of Operation Pacific, from award-winning YA author David Hill. 'It's not going to be a cushy job, young Benson. You're on your own. Japs will be looking for you. Far as they're concerned, you're spies. And when a spy g...ets captured, remember . . .' It's 1943, and 19-year-old radio operator Frank Benson is shipped out to an enemy-occupied island in the Solomons with two other soldiers. Their mission is to spy on the Japanese. In dense jungle they meet a Solomon Islander who says he has information that will shatter Japanese defences. But he could be working for the enemy. What if it's a trap to get them killed? No training could have prepared Frank for this decision. Their lives - and Operation Pacific - depend on his next move.
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By Foxlee, Karen
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From the bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Lenny's Book of Everything comes a magical tale about a girl who saves a dragon and rescues her family.
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Amber and her insects are back in a new thrilling adventure with old friends and new villains!
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'Part Agatha Christie, part Veronica Mars, and completely entertaining' -- Karen M McManus, #1 NYT bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying What would Agatha Christie do? Meet the Agathas: rich girl Alice and her tutor Iris have nothing in common-but when Alice's ex-boyfriend is ...accused of murder, they're the only ones who see it for what it is-a mystery worthy of the great Agatha Christie.
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Based on the life of 'The Bird Lady', Sylvia Durrant, who helped over 140,000 sick, injured and lost birds during her lifetime, it inspires a reverence for the natural world and is a call to action to all young ecologists and environmentalists.
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An enthralling historical novel of immigration, courage and first love from an award-winning New Zealand author. Eloise and her family must leave Cornwall on a treacherous sea journey to start a new life in 1870s colonial New Zealand. On the ship across, Eloise meets Lars, a Norw...egian labourer travelling below decks, and their lives begin to intertwine. When her brother disappears, her father leaves and the family are left to fend for themselves in their new home, Eloise must find the strength to stand up for what she believes in and the people she loves.
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