SENIOR FICTION Book 3 - Finder’s Shore
HarperCollins 2008 9780732287313 Pb $36.99 Dreamhunter and Dreamquake combined in one volume. 14+.
Longacre Press 2011 9781877460722 Pb $20 A year has passed since the trouble of Ebony Hill, and there is still trouble about and indecision about what the future will bring. The governors of Vidya decide they must reach out to other islands and the decision is made to investigate the island of Dunnett, where Ness came from. She volunteers to make the journey and also desperately wants to see what has happened to her family. There is drama aplenty, tangled emotions and personal interractions, and surprises which I don’t want to spoil here. this is the final volume but I found myself still wanting to know more about these characters who the author has made so real. 13+.
Calling the Gods
The Time Stealers
The Invisible Road
Lasenby, Jack
MacLean, Glynne
HarperCollins 2011 9781869509484 Pb $24.99 Selene has been unjustly banished from her town where life is ruled by the seasons and superstition. She’s cast away on a boat with limited supplies but determined to return to save her siblings before trying to find a better place to live. Detailed information about the way of life and surviving at sea and in the brutal environment. 12+.
Pearson 2008 9781869706463 Pb $25.99 Nitty Gritty Novels level 3 Neil Jarvie enjoys his life in Tal City, you can always find any person, place or information you want with your mobile, except about the history of Tal City. Now he’s helping a time traveller but this one is paranoid about the surveillance and obsessed with her own history. 12-14.
The Spiral Chrysalis
Pearson 2007 9781869705886 Pb $25.99 When Nareen finds a spiral-shaped chrysalis in her backyard she’s sure it is magical. Nareen, her brother Carl and best friend Kelly are soon drawn through the chrysalis and have a week to find their way out before the spiral fades away and they are trapped.
Mahy, Margaret The Changeover
Lockyer, John Lost
Pearson 2007 9781869705930 Pb $25.99 Nitty Gritty Novels level 2. On the Earth-cloned planet Eco a virus is threatening the future of the human population. Valdez has just arrived to join his scientist sister, when his shuttle crashes in a remote part of the planet.
HarperCollins (1984), 2007 9780007243525 Pb $17.50 From the moment Laura saw the face in the mirror she knew that something dreadful was going to happen. The evil Carmody Braque has touched and branded Laura’s little brother and now he is very ill, and getting worse. Laura has to release her supernatural powers and change over in order to save him. Classic fantasy fiction. Esther Glen Award 1985, Carnegie Medal 1984.
Lowry, Brigid † Follow the Blue
Allen & Unwin 2001 9781865084008 Pb $31.50 Bec feels ordinary and dull. But her 15th summer changes everything. Her parents go away, she falls out with her best friend, and she wins a lot of money. Bec learns to be a girl who can take risks.
Guitar Highway Rose
Allen & Unwin 2004 9781741145250 Pb $22.99 Rosie, bored and restless, wants more independence. She meets Asher, a dreadlocked Jim Morrison fan, and when Asher quits school to head for home, Rosie decides to go on a journey with him.
The Magician of Hoad
HarperCollins 2008 9781869506872 Hb $29.99 A hero, an ageing magician, a farm boy, a noble daughter and a mad prince meet on the edge of a city of tents. So begins an intricate tale of a boy with a troublesome eye, who is capable of extraordinary things, as he struggles in finding his true purpose in life. 11+.
Marshall, Heather
Picking Up the Pieces
With Lots of Love from Georgia
Cape Catley 1993 9780908561421 Pb $17.99 Annabel is an orphan, brought up by her unloving uncle and aunt. Their own daughter, Goldie, is the same age as Annabel and she too has to cope with emotional neglect. A strong story of teenagers trapped in a home without love and support.
Mackenzie, Anna
Cape Catley 1995 9780908561452 Pb $17.99 Stroppy Abigail (16), sent from Sydney to stay with her NZ grandmother, finds a nightmare childhood in the pages of an old diary.
Allen & Unwin 2005 9781741143102 Pb $22.99 Follow the life of Georgia - a little plump, a little individual and very unique. 13 +. NZ Post Young Adult Fiction Award 2006.
What Happened That Night
Sea-Wreck Stranger trilogy Book 1 - The Sea-wreck Stranger
Martin, Denis Marked
Longacre Press 2007 9781877361883 Pb $18.99 A post-apocalyptic novel. Ness, Ty and their cousin Sophie live in a small island community that has turned its back on the sea and its own past. Then a stranger arrives who forces them all to question the world they know and they each have a choice to make. White Raven book and Honour book at NZ Post and Sir Julius Vogel Fantasy and Science Fiction Awards 2008. 12+.
Walker Books Australia 2012 9781921977541 Pb $19.99 Cully thinks life in small-town Cooksville will be quiet. Then he meets Kat. Athletic. Stunning. Intriguing. But something is going on with Kat Cully is sure of it. He knows he should stay out of it, but he can t. Now Kat and Cully are caught in the middle of a deadly web. And it s too late to hide from those who hunt them. Finalist LIANZA Children’s Book Awards 2013.
Longacre Press 2010 9781877460487 Pb $19.99 Sequel to The Sea-Wreck Stranger. Ness’s new home is the ruined city of Vidya. Dev’s people are trying to build a new world in a corner of the old city. Ness is sent to work on the community’s farms, is caught up in a land battle and volunteers to help in the medic room at Ebony Hill. Gripping and suspenseful. 14+
I Am Leather-Man
Book 2 - Ebony Hill
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McKay, Sandy Losing It
Longacre Press 2007 9781877361746 Pb $18.99 Joanna has been hospitalised for her eating disorder. Through her letters and diary entries she comes to terms with her issues and works towards health and independence. Insight into the realities of the experiences of those who suffer, and their families and friends. 13+.
Morris, Paula† Dark Souls
Scholastic 2011 9780545251327 Hb $29 Scholastic 2012 9780545251341 Pb $21 Miranda and big brother Rob are traumatised after they were in a crash where Miranda’s best friend died, that was also when Miranda discovered she could see ghosts. Now they’re on a family trip to historic York in the UK and ghosts are everywhere. Rob brightens when he meets a girl, and Miranda learns more about ghosts when she meets a strange goth boy, Nick who has a lot of secrets, and sees ghosts too. A ghost story, mystery, history and romance in a rich setting. 13+.
Ruined: A Ghost Story
Scholastic 2010 9780545042147 TPb $21 Scholastic 2009 9780545042154 Hb $26 A spooky novel set in New Orleans post-Katrina and delving into its history including the yellow fever epidemic, free people of colour, voodoo and Mardi Gras. Rebecca (16) comes to stay in New Orleans but she struggles to fit in. She follows some teens into the out-of-bounds cemetery and there meets Lisette, a ghost unable to rest in peace because of the way she died. Past and present meet in a dramatic conclusion. A great portrait of this fascinating city. 12+.
Unbroken: A Ruined Novel
Scholastic 2013 9780545416412 Hb $26 Returning to New Orleans for spring break, Rebecca (16) finds herself embroiled in another murder mystery from more than a century ago, when she meets the ghost of a troubled boy.
Nagelkerke, Bill Demons
ACHUKAbooks 2012 B009EXB9W2 Kindle Andrea McNamara, daughter of Catholic parents with a lifetime of ‘protest’ behind them, and granddaughter of an Irish matriarch, has finished university and is looking forward to starting her new life. But then she meets Chris, her former boyfriend, and self-styled classics geek and atheist. The meeting prompts Andrea to look back at her final year at high school when she met Chris for the first time and when her life began to change in ways both challenging and unexpected.
Date of Origin
Pearson 2008 9781869706470 Pb $25.99 Nitty Gritty Novels level 3. It’s the 20th century and Rezza lives with her sister Boyd and a group of other young, female outcasts. Terrified of the guards who control the Earth, they survive on what they can find or hunt. They wait for their Date of Origin, when they find out if they will morph into Aggers (slaves), but a group of rebels has a daring plan. 12-14.
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Maybury, Ged & Vencil, Anna
Cape Catley 2001 9780908561858 Pb $14.99 Jake’s wealthy parents are so busy with their own lives they don’t realise he’s slipped out of the arrangements they’ve made for him, and is living alone in his mother’s new house while she is down country at university. It’s when he begins to tell a few fibs that his troubles really begin.
The Field
ACHUKAbooks 2012 B006Z3FTUW Kindle When Jacinta begins receiving messages from Mary, Mother of God, her parents and the local bishop don’t know how to respond.
Neale, Emma Fosterling
Random House 2011 9781869794859 Pb $29.99 Random House 2011 9781869794866 Epub A young man falls injured in the forest and is found unconscious, 7’ tall with hair all over his face and body. When he wakes he’s in hospital and refuses to talk. He is persecuted but we come to know his gentle heart and longing to find his place in the world, and the intriguing story of where he came from. 13+.
Noonan, Diana
Flight from Ledron
Pearson Education 2008 9781869705947 Pb $25.99 Nitty Gritty Novels level 2 After Amon finds an injured bird in the desert outside ledron, his whole world turns upside down. his mother is ill and he knows his community does not have the resources to help her. The bird seems to offer help, but if they manage to escape into the desert what will they find? Sci-fi.
Win! Win!
Pearson 2008 9781869706456 Pb $25.99 Nitty Gritty Novels level 3. Phoebe has done something terrible and now she’s in a truck with no idea where she’s going. Too bad if Mum was worried, she’s chosen to stay with Mick and his gambling problem and she couldn’t expect to have Phoebe as well. 12-14.
Norcliffe, James
The Assassin of Gleam
Hazard Press 2006 1877270997 Pb $29.99 21st century fantasy in a time of tyrant rulers and black magic. The ruler of Gleam has destroyed all hope and freedom but there is a prophesy of a bright new beginning for the kingdom. To prevent this the Markgrave seeks help from the Brotherhood. Meanwhile a young woman and her brother come to the kingdom and will have to face darkness and danger if they are to survive. 14+. Copyright © 2013 Silvertone