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Being Magdalene (The Pilgrim Family #3) by Fleur Beale
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: The Pilgrim Family | Reading Level: very good
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
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children | Reading Level: very good
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
$24.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult/Teenage
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
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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
Heart of Danger (Juno #3) by Fleur Beale
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Juno
Juno and her family arrive at their new home, but almost immediately danger threatens Hera and they move to Willem's protection in New Plymouth, the city Juno most hoped to avoid. Fairlands school is too like Taris, and Hilto's son Thomas is a pupil there. The handsome Ivor is also there and soon begins ...Show more
I am Not Esther by Fleur Beale
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: The Pilgrim Family | Reading Level: good
A classic bestseller that's been in print for over 20 years, this gripping YA thriller follows a teenage girl caught in a religious cult. Imagine that your mother tells you she's going away. She is going to leave you with relatives you've never heard of - and they are members of a strict religious cult. ...Show more
I am Rebecca by Fleur Beale
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: The Pilgrim Family | Reading Level: very good
Life inside a religious cult becomes too much for 16-year-old Rebecca when she finds out who she is to marry. When she turns 14, Rebecca will find out who she is to marry. All the girls in her strict religious sect must be married just after their 16th birthdays.Her twin sister Rachel desperately wants ...Show more
Juno of Taris (#1) by Fleur Beale
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Juno
Juno, a young teen on the verge of adulthood, struggles with her need to fit in and belong and her growing discomfort and questioning of her society's rules. Juno lives in the not-too-distant future on Taris, a bubble-covered island in the Pacific, to which a few hundred people fled when Earth's inhabit ...Show more
Lyla (Through My Eyes: Natural Disaster Zones) by Fleur Beale
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children | 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
Once Upon a Wickedness by Fleur Beale
$22.00 NZD
Category: Children
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
Quin Majik and the Marvellous Machine by Fleur Beale & Philip Webb (ill.)
$15.00 NZD
$15.99 (6% off)
Category: Children
When Quin Majik and his parents move to Tidy Street they soon learn about The Rules. These tell the residents what they may and may not do, eat and wear. But the Majiks, expecially Quin, have no intention of following them. Fleur Beale's wicked sense of humour and Phip Webb's zany illustrations combine ...Show more
Sins of the Father: The Long Shadow of a Religious Community by Fleur Beale
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
The disturbing story of the ruthless exercise of power in a New Zealand religious cult. Charismatic, driven and self-righteous, Neville Cooper set up his own brand of Christian utopia on earth: a reclusive community on the West Coast of New Zealand. For the 400 inhabitants of Gloriavale, his word is law ...Show more