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Beck by Mal Peet; Meg Rosoff
$28.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
Exposure: Nothing Falls as Fast as a Star (Paul Faustino #3) by Mal Peet
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's 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
Exposure (Paul Faustino #3) by Mal Peet
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: Paul Faustino
A massive soccer star has it all, but someone is plotting his downfall... Revered as a national hero...married to the desirable Desmerelda...cherished by the media...soccer star, Otello, has it all. But a sensational club transfer sparks a media frenzy, and when he is wrongly implicated in a scandal, th ...Show more
Exposure (Paul Faustino #3) by Mal Peet
$23.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: Paul Faustino
This is the third Paul Faustino novel by multi-award-winning Mal Peet. A massive soccer star has it all, but someone is plotting his downfall...Revered as a national hero...married to the desirable Desmerelda...cherished by the media...soccer star, Otello, has it all. But a sensational club transfer spa ...Show more
Keeper (Paul Faustino #1) by Mal Peet
$22.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
In a newspaper office, Paul Faustino, South America's top football writer, sits opposite the man they call El Gato - the Cat - the world's greatest goalkeeper. On the table between them stands the World Cup... In the hours that follow, El Gato tells his incredible story - how he, a poor logger's son, le ...Show more
Keeper (Paul Faustino #1) by Mal Peet
$23.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: Paul Faustino
This is an extraordinary debut novel, winner of the Branford Boase Award and the Bronze Nestle Children's Book Prize. In a newspaper office, Paul Faustino, South America's top football writer, sits opposite the man they call El Gato "the Cat", the world's greatest goalkeeper. On the table between them s ...Show more
Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet
$22.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Peet's subtle, literary play with narrative voice, style, and chronology make this a satisfyingly sophisticated teen novel." --The Horn Book (starred review) Carnegie Medalist Mal Peet ignites an epic tale of young love against the dramatic backdrop of the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. This br ...Show more
Mr Godley's Phantom by Mal Peet
$22.00 NZD
Category: Children's 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
Mr Godley's Phantom by Mal Peet
$30.00 NZD
Category: World 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. Then an old comrade sends him a letter and tells him of a position that's just come up in the remote wilds of Dartmoor - working for an elderly fellow called Mr Godley. "Are ...Show more
Night Sky Dragons by Mal Peet
$30.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
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
Tamar by Mal Peet
$19.90 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
A thrilling and moving story about love, betrayal and belonging. When Tamar's grandfather, an intensely private man, falls from a balcony to his death, he leaves behind a box with Tamar's name on it. For a long time Tamar refuses even to think about it...until one hot June day she opens it to reveal a s ...Show more
Tamar by Mal Peet
$23.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century earlier. Unravelling, it will transform the younger Tamar's life. ...Show more