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    Book Reviews: Picture Books to Look Out For

    Book Reviews: Picture Books to Look Out For

    As a general rule, March is a delightful time in the book industry, New Zealand. New releases are winging their way through the doors, wr...
    Book Reviews: Alex: The Quartet, by Tessa Duder

    Book Reviews: Alex: The Quartet, by Tessa Duder

    Alex still stands out in editor Sarah's mind as one of the best flawed, real female characters ever written in New Zealand YA. Alex: The ...
    Book Reviews: New Chapter Books And Novels

    Book Reviews: New Chapter Books And Novels

    Chapter books and novels are order of the day in our reviewing neighbourhood, with three new books targeted at the junior/middle fiction ...
    Book Reviews: YA fantasy that burns bright

    Book Reviews: YA fantasy that burns bright

    Fantasy's a funny word for the genre of imaginative worlds, considering how many of the places created are the last place anyone would 'f...
    Book Reviews: Two New Young Adult Novels

    Book Reviews: Two New Young Adult Novels

    Writer Steph Matuku reviews two new books for teenagers. Tina Shaw's manuscript for Ursa won the Storylines Tessa Duder Award for YA Manu...
    Book Review: The Telesa Series, by Lani Wendt Young

    Book Review: The Telesa Series, by Lani Wendt Young

    'What’s very clear is that the author is writing what she knows, that this place is in her bones.' Catherine Woulfe devours, reviews and ...
    2018 End-of-Year Shopping List: NZ Factual Books

    2018 End-of-Year Shopping List: NZ Factual Books

    Do you want to be sure you're getting top-shelf books for your favourite people this Christmas – or on any gift-giving occasion? We are m...
    Book Reviews: Five Great Non-Fiction Books

    Book Reviews: Five Great Non-Fiction Books

    Palmerston North librarian Alan Dingley and his two daughters review five of the freshest New Zealand-published non-fiction titles around...
    Book Reviews: Two reality-based YA titles

    Book Reviews: Two reality-based YA titles

    Mandy Hager and Helen Vivienne Fletcher are both Wellington-based writers of YA and other things. Sarah Forster was excited to read Fletc...
    Dystopian YA Fiction - About the Children

    Dystopian YA Fiction - About the Children

    YA dystopian fiction had a massive run a few years back and then everyone got dystopian-ed out. Not me. I love teens saving dismal worlds...
    Book Reviews: A range of Young Adult Publishing

    Book Reviews: A range of Young Adult Publishing

    One summer, so many new books. Briar Lawry reviews three fiction books which serve as a reflection of the state of the broader New Zealan...
    Book Reviews: Three Junior Fiction Gems

    Book Reviews: Three Junior Fiction Gems

    Each of these three action-packed books has a great cast of characters, some daredevil heroes and is written for kids aged 7+. Sarah Fors...
    Book Reviews: Beautiful Mess & Broken Silence

    Book Reviews: Beautiful Mess & Broken Silence

    If there is a trend right now in YA publishing, it has to be toward gritty teen drama, usually including the death of somebody close and ...
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