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Beck by Mal Peet; Meg Rosoff
28.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
Both harrowing and life-affirming, the final novel from Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet is the sweeping coming-of-age adventure of a mixed race boy transported to North America. Born from a street liaison between a poor young woman and an African soldier in the 1900s, Beck is soon orphaned and se ...Show more
Exposure: Nothing Falls as Fast as a Star (Paul Faustino #3) by Mal Peet
20.00 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
20.00 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
23.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult | 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
22.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
"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
22.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
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
Tamar by Mal Peet
23.00 NZD
Category: Children
When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century earlier. Unravelling, it will transform the younger Tamar's life. ...Show more
The Penalty (Paul Faustino #2) by Mal Peet
23.00 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
The Penalty: Posessed by the Evils of the Past (Paul Faustino #2) by Mal Peet
20.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Paul Faustino
In the second of the Paul Faustino novels by Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet, teenage football prodigy El Brujito, "the Little Magician", has vanished without a trace and Paul finds himself reluctantly drawn into the mystery. As the city of San Juan pulses to summer's sluggish beat, Paul gets mor ...Show more
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