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Beck by Mal Peet; Meg Rosoff
$21.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Both harrowing and life-affirming, the final novel from Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet is the sweeping coming-of-age adventure of a mixed race boy transported to North America. Born from a street liaison between a poor young woman and an African sailor in the 1900s, Beck is soon orphaned and sen ...Show more
Beck by Mal Peet; Meg Rosoff
$27.99 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction
Both harrowing and life-affirming, the final novel from Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet is the sweeping coming-of-age adventure of a mixed race boy transported to North America. Born from a street liaison between a poor young woman and an African soldier in the 1900s, Beck is soon orphaned and se ...Show more
Cloud Tea Monkeys by Mal Peet
$35.99 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
Based on a centuries-old legend of tea-picking monkeys, this title tells a tale full of vivid characters: a heartless Overseer, an enigmatic Royal Tea-Taster and, in a faraway land, and an Empress with a liking for tea.
Exposure: Nothing Falls as Fast as a Star (Paul Faustino #3) by Mal Peet
$19.99 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction | Series: Paul Faustino
Carnegie Medalist Mal Peet takes a searing look at the world of soccer and pop-celebrity culture -- and the lives of three street kids caught in its glare. (Age 14 and up) When a black South American soccer star signs on to a team in the country's racist south, headlines blare. And when he falls for ...Show more
Good Boy by Mal Peet
$16.99 NZD
Category: Dyslexia Friendly (Teen)
Sandie has been battling it since childhood: the hulking, snarling black dog of her nightmares. For years, her precious pet dog Rabbie has kept the monster at bay, but when he is no longer there to protect her, the black dog reappears to stalk Sandie in her sleep... Illuminating the undeniable power of ...Show more
Keeper (#1 Paul Faustino) by Mal Peet
$19.98 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction | Series: Paul Faustino
When Paul Faustino of LA NACION flips on his tape recorder for an exclusive interview with El Gato -- the phenomenal goalkeeper who single-handedly brought his team the World Cup -- the seasoned reporter quickly learns that this will be no ordinary story. Instead, the legendary El Gato narrates a spellb ...Show more
Life: an Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet
$21.99 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction
Carnegie Medalist Mal Peet ignites an epic tale of young love against the dramatic backdrop of the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Can love survive a lifetime? When working-class Clem Ackroyd falls for Frankie Mortimer, the gorgeous daughter of a wealthy local landowner, he has no hope that i ...Show more
Mr Godley's Phantom by Mal Peet
$21.99 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction
It's 1945 and Martin Heath, like many men at that time, is struggling to settle, to find his place again after the horrors of war. When an old comrade sends him a letter, telling of a position that's just come up with an elderly fellow called Mr Godley in the deepest and loneliest part of Devon. Martin ...Show more
Mysterious Traveller by Mal Peet
$32.99 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
A moving and beautifully researched story about camels, lost princesses and the strength of wisdom and knowledge, stunningly illustrated by P.J. Lynch. It is the second tale in a trilogy from acclaimed storytellers Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham. This tale begins with a disgruntled camel, desperately tryin ...Show more
Mysterious Traveller by Mal Peet
$18.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
This is a moving and beautifully researched story about camels, lost princesses and the strength of wisdom and knowledge, stunningly illustrated by P.J. Lynch. This is the second tale in a trilogy from acclaimed storytellers Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham. This one begins with a disgruntled camel, desperat ...Show more
Night Sky Dragons by Mal Peet
$29.99 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
Let the creators of Cloud Tea Monkeys take you back to medieval Mongolia in this captivating story gem about family, danger, banditry and kite-flying. Set at a caravanserai along the Silk Road, Night Sky Dragons is Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham's third tale in a trilogy of texts. Yazul, a young boy, spend ...Show more
Painting Out the Stars by Mal Peet, Elspeth Graham
$17.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
This title includes three deftly spun, emotionally resonant stories with the feel of time-honoured fables but the freshness of a contemporary voice. When Tashi's mother falls ill and is unable to work, Tashi looks to the monkeys on a Himalayan tea plantation for help...Yazul and his clan, trapped inside ...Show more