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Clay by David Almond
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA
This is another lyrical, gripping read from the multi-award winner, David Almond. With fascination, Davie and his friend Geordie watch the arrival of a new boy, Stephen Rose, in their town. He seems to have come from nowhere, and when he arrives to live with his distant aunt, the local 'loony', 'Crazy M ...Show more
Click by David Almond & Eoin Colfer & Nick Hornby & Roddy Doyle et al
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle
A strange bequest. A mysterious journey. A man who changed the world. Maggie and Jason
Counting Stars by David Almond
$16.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA
His first novel, "Skellig" won David Almond critical acclaim and several awards. His second and third books, "Kit's Wilderness" and "Heaven Eyes", established him as an author of unique insight and skill. In "Counting Stars", he tackles the themes common to his work - joy, darkness, love, death and iden ...Show more
Fire-eaters by David Almond
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA
Bobby lives in Keely Bay playing on the coaly sands and in the pines with friends known all his life. But things are changing. He has passed the eleven-plus and must leave his friends to go to the Catholic School which proves to be a harsh and cruel experience. Befriended by Daniel, son of a universi ...Show more
Jackdaw Summer by David Almond
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA
From the winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award and the Carnegie Medal comes an extraordinary new novel ...
My Dad's a Birdman by David Almond
$17.00 NZD
$19.00 (10% off)
Category: Fiction - junior
Join a father and daughter as they find their wings together and take to the skies in this funny, tender tale from the master of contemporary storytelling.Lizzie and Dad live in a rainy town in the north of England. It's just the two of them, and Auntie Doreen, who pops round to check Lizzie's spellings ...Show more
Skellig by David Almond
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: Signature Ser.
Michael was looking forward to moving house. It was all going to be wonderful.But now his baby sister's ill, his parents aer frantic and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage... What is this thing beneath the spiders' webs and dead flies? A human ...Show more
Skellig by David Almond
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA | Series: Skellig
When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain. Then, one Sunday afternoon, he stumbles into the old, ramshackle garage of his new home, and finds something magical. A strange creature - part owl, part angel, a being who needs Mic ...Show more
Skellig Play by David Almond
$19.99 NZD
$21.99 (9% off)
Category: English & Drama - children
When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain. Then, one Sunday afternoon, he stumbles into the old, ramshackle garage of his new home, and finds something magical. A strange creature - part owl, part angel, a being who needs Mic ...Show more
The Fire-eaters by David Almond
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle
There he was, below the bridge, half-naked, eyes blazing. He had a pair of burning torches. He ran them back and forth across his skin. He sipped from a bottle, breathed across a torch, and fire and fumes leapt from his lips. The air was filled with the scent of paraffin. He breathed again, a great high ...Show more