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Being Magdalene (The Pilgrim Family #3) by Fleur Beale
Category: Fiction | Series: The Pilgrim Family
The gripping sequel to the bestselling YA novels I am not Esther and I am Rebecca. Four years after Rebecca fled the religious community The Children of the Faith, twelve-year-old Magdalene bears the brunt of trying to protect and nurture her rebellious younger sister. Zillah isn't at all interested in ...Show more
Dirt Bomb by Fleur Beale
Category: Young Adult
A coming of age story for teenage boys, especially car lovers. Shortlisted for the 2012 NZ Post Book Awards and the 2012 LIANZA YA Award. Jake's life is sweet. He's got no money and doesn't have a mobile, but he's got two best mates; Buzz and Robbie. Buzz is generous and doesn't mind buying stuff for hi ...Show more
Faraway Girl by Fleur Beale
Category: Children's Fiction
A contemporary novel for teenagers with mysterious goings on, time travel, a curse and a strange painting. Etta is worried about her brother, Jamie. The doctors can find nothing wrong with him, but he is getting weaker by the day. At breakfast one morning, he seems to have lost it completely - in a voi ...Show more
Fierce September (Juno #2) by Fleur Beale
Category: Young Adult | Series: Juno
Juno and the Taris inhabitants must leave their dying island. The young people look forward to a wider life Outside, but Outside too has its problems. It is two-year-old Hera, with her uncanny ability to foresee events, who saves the Taris people from the injury and death prepared for them by an undergr ...Show more
Juno of Taris (#1) by Fleur Beale
Category: Young Adult | Series: Juno
'On Taris, we shave our heads. No. That's wrong. On Taris, we have our heads shaved for us.' You'd think life in a peaceful tropical island community would be idyllic. But the people of Taris follow strict rules to keep their isolated society functioning. Ages 12+. (SA: Year 6 - Year 9).
Lacey and the Drama Queens by Fleur Beale
Category: Children's Fiction
Prequel to Lucky for Some. Meet Lacey Turner again, at a younger age. Remember how Lacey had a passion for dancing in Lucky for Some? This book tells how she developed that passion. Lacey is firmly ensconced in her world. Her best friend Vanessa lives across the road and they do everything together. The ...Show more
Lyla (Through My Eyes: Natural Disaster Zones) by Fleur Beale
Category: Education | Series: Through My Eyes - Natural Disaster Zones
Lyla has just started her second year of high school when a magnitude 6.3 earthquake shakes Christchurch to pieces. Devastation is everywhere. While her police officer mother and trauma nurse father respond to the disaster, Lyla puts on a brave face, opening their home to neighbours and leading the comm ...Show more
Mission Girl (My New Zealand Story) by Fleur Beale
Category: Children's Fiction
When her tribe is defeated in battle, Atapo is captured and becomes a slave of her enemies. Freedom seems impossible; the penalty for runaway slaves is death. But when sickness strikes the village, Atapo is blamed - and now it is even more dangerous to stay. To save her life, she escapes to the Pakeha m ...Show more
Once Upon a Wickedness by Fleur Beale
Category: Children's Fiction
An exciting adventure novel for contemporary kids with a fairytale setting, a daring hero and message that you're never too young and powerless to stand up to tyrants! What happens when a group of school children, led by the resourceful ten-year-old Dance Violet, dare to ask those in power some hard qu ...Show more
The Calling by Fleur Beale
Category: Young Adult
A novel about finding your calling, the extraordinary nun Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, and the realities of religious bigotry in late-nineteenth century New Zealand. 'Dreams were dangerous things.' It was the dream of Molly's dying mother that she would become a nun. It isn't, however, the dream of her ...Show more
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