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Kate De Goldi
Reissue of this 'perfectly crafted novel, funny, compassionate, rich in characters' (Daily Telegraph). Frankie's carefully controlled world unravels as he is forced to face his one burning unanswered question.
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A coming of age story, a love story, an earthquake story and a story of finding your way back from grief. Shortlisted, New Zealand Young Adult Book of the Year.
A warm, surprising, real and intelligent novel you will fall in love with. Frankie Parsons is twelve and has a rodent voice of worry nibbling in his head. His new…
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"A series of earthquakes exposes the fault lines in a teenager's unconventional life in a powerful crossover novel that explores raw emotion with wit and warmth"--
Eddy, Eddy is a coming of age story, a love story, an earthquake story and a story of finding your way back from grief.
Eddy Smallbone (orphan) is grappling with…
Winner of the NZ Post Children’s Book Awards, this compelling novel explores truth and lies, guilt, grief and love.
Winner of the NZ Post Children’s Book Awards, this compelling novel…
A prize-winning novel about friendship, family and an impossible love. ‘What made March really significant, what seared it on both our brains, was that Westie met his birth mother, Vicky…
A moving story of young - and old - love.
‘He looks at me now, full face, and I can…
A prize-winning novel about friendship, family and an impossible love.
‘What made March really significant, what seared it on both…
Meet filmmaker Barney Kettle, who liked to invent stories but found a real one under his nose.
Barney Kettle knew he would be a very famous film director one day…
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Worry-prone Frankie keeps his family secret under control until an inquisitive girl enters his life, in this captivating novel. A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book.
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Moving, charming novel from much - loved, international - award - winning children’s author Kate de Goldi, author of the 10pm question. Beautifully packaged and illustrated throughout with drawings by…
Kate de Goldi
Twelve-year-old Frankie Parsons has a head full of questions. Then a new girl arrives at school with questions of her own, questions that make Frankie’s carefully controlled world begin to…
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Frankie Parsons is twelve going on old man: an apparently sensible, talented Year 8 with a drumbeat of worrying questions steadily gaining volume in his head. Only Ma takes seriously…
Barney Kettle knew he would be a very famous film director one day, he just didn’t know when that day would arrive. He was already an actual director - he’d…
A poetry anthology from the makers of the famous Annuals
