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Cloud Tea Monkeys by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham
$17.99 NZD
Category: Children
Monkeys come to the rescue of a struggling family in this traditional tale from a Carnegie Medal winner. Tashi lives in a tiny village below the tea plantations where her mother earns a living. One day her mother falls ill, and Tashi must pick tea to earn the money for a doctor. But she is too small to ...Show more
Exposure: Nothing Falls as Fast as a Star (Paul Faustino #3) by Mal Peet
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children | 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
Keeper (#1 Paul Faustino) by Mal Peet
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children | 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
Keeper (Paul Faustino #1) by Mal Peet
$22.99 NZD
Category: Children | 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
$21.99 NZD
Category: Children | 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
$21.99 NZD
Category: Children
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
The Murdstone Trilogy by Mal Peet
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children
Award-winning author Philip Murdstone is in trouble. His star has waned. The world is leaving him behind. His agent, the beautiful and ruthless Minerva Cinch, convinces him that his only hope is to write a sword-and-sorcery blockbuster. Unfortunately, Philip - allergic to the faintest trace of Tolkien - ...Show more
The Penalty (Paul Faustino #2) by Mal Peet
$22.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Paul Faustino
From the award-winning author of TAMAR, a time-shifting thriller about a vanishing soccer star, occult secrets, and the dark history of slavery. As the city of San Juan pulses to summer's sluggish beat, its teenage soccer prodigy, El Brujito, the Little Magician, vanishes without a trace -- right after ...Show more
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