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All My Dangerous Friends by Sonya Hartnett
$24.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
Louie has finished with her old life and stepped into a world of sinners. For her, things will never be the same again. This funny, compelling novel explores a lawless world where morality is a nuisance and the prices paid are high.
Butterfly by Sonya Hartnett
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
In masterful prose, the author of SURRENDER tells a quiet but powerful tale about the shifting bonds and psychological perils of adolescence. (Ages 14 and up) Plum Coyle is on the edge of adolescence. Her fourteenth birthday is approaching, when her old life and her old body will fall away, and she ...Show more
Children of the King by Sonya Hartnett
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
Three children have been sent to live in the countryside, safe from the war in London. When they find two boys hiding in a castle, the past and future come together to make an extraordinary adventure. A hauntingly beautiful story from one of Australia's most acclaimed writers for adults and children. ...Show more
Forest by Sonya Hartnett
$24.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
The forest is earth and leaves, sun and shade, feather and blood and bone. It is the old way, the true way, the wild way to live. But, for Kian, wilderness is not home. Kian, a five-year-old cat, is dumped in the forest along with two kitten siblings, Jem and Cally. Kian wants nothing more than to find ...Show more
Forest by Sonya Hartnett
$18.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Reading Level: From 13 To 99
In the tradition of "Watership Down", this is a powerful literary novel for all ages that charts the perilous journey of a dumped domestic cat trying to find his way home through the Australian forest. 2002 CBC Book of the Year winner. Ages 13+.
Life in Ten Houses: Penguin Specials by Sonya Hartnett
$12.99 NZD
Category: Society & Culture | Series: Penguin Specials
The internationally celebrated writer Sonya Hartnett is firmly Melburnian but has restlessly moved from suburb to suburb in her search for the 'Last House' - that special corner of the world in which to settle and find contentment. Viewing her life and work through the lens of real estate, she vividly r ...Show more
Of A Boy by Sonya Hartnett
$29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Adrian (9) lives with his gran and uncle Rory. He loves to draw, wants a dog and fears quicksand, shopping centres and self-combustion. He cannot understand why three local children might set out to buy ice-cream and never come back home... Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize (South East Asia and t ...Show more
Of a Boy by Sonya Hartnett
$26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
The Metfords have not been lost or abandoned - they have been made to disappear. They have not run away - they have been lifted up and carried. They've been taken somewhere as distant as Jupiter. Adrian has never thought that an ordinary child, a kid like himself or Clinton or that freckle-nosed girl, m ...Show more
Of a Boy: Popular Penguins by Sonya Hartnett
$9.95 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Internationally published author: the US, Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway and Denmark. Award winning author. The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand, shopping centres an ...Show more
Sleeping Dogs by Sonya Hartnett
$24.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
'We must be ruthless,' Edward snarls, 'because we lead ruthless lives. This is our existence. This house, this land, that father, that mother - there's no pity, there's no mercy, there's probably no escape.' The Willow family's world is a place of strange safety and dark unease. But such a place cannot ...Show more
Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf by Sonya Hartnett
$19.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
A tale about entrapment, conflict and a struggle for survival against the odds that will leave the reader aching with compassion.
Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf by Sonya Hartnett
$26.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
In a dying country town lives a young man fighting the future, a young woman fighting the past, and a long-lost animal that can teach them both the art of survival. The animal swerved into the bracken, its smooth long tail slippin g away. Satchel listened a minute for any sign of it but it was gone...H ...Show more