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A Song for Ella Grey (PB) by David Almond
20.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
Claire is Ella Grey's best friend. She's there when the whirlwind arrives on the scene: catapulted into a North East landscape of gutted shipyards; of high arched bridges and ancient collapsed mines. She witnesses a love so dramatic it is as if her best friend has been captured and taken from her. But t ...Show more
Bone Music: A gripping book of hope and joy by David Almond
20.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
This wonderful tale transports the reader from the city to the forests and fells of Northern England. Under a boundless starry sky, the unforgettable Sylvia Carr reconnects with the ancient past and discovers what it really means to be young in the world today.Sylvia, brave hearted and rebellious, moves ...Show more
Counting Stars by David Almond
22.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
InCounting Stars"David Almond tackles the themes common to his work - joy, darkness, love, death and identity - with exquisite sensitivity and tenderness. David's childhood in the north of England was the inspiration for much of his work, and in these beautiful stories he creates a tangible picture of g ...Show more
Half a Creature from the Sea: A Life in Stories (PB) by David Almond
19.00 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction
David Almond says of this unique collection, "Stories on the page are so beautifully neat. All that lovely black print; those lovely straight lines and paragraphs and pages. But stories are living things, creatures that move and grow in the imaginations of writer and reader. They must be solid and touch ...Show more
Harry Miller's Run by David Almond
19.00 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction
A joyful, uplifting story of times gone by from the internationally acclaimed author of Skellig, illustrated in full colour by the award-winning illustrator of A Walk in London. Liam just wants to go out running with his mates - it's not long till the Junior Great North Run, and there's training to be d ...Show more
Island by David Almond
20.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
A hopeful and moving coming-of-age story set on the island of Lindisfarne, by David Almond, author of the bestselling Skellig and A Song for Ella Grey: now with fantastic illustrations by the award-winning David Litchfield. Louise has travelled with her father to the island of Lindisfarne every year eve ...Show more
Klaus Vogel and the Bad Lads by David Almond
21.00 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Gr8read
Poignant and powerful narrative about intolerance and freeing yourself from bad influences, by an award-winning author...
Mouse Bird Snake Wolf by David Almond
19.00 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction
The dream team of David Almond and Dave McKean bring us a complete story set in an incomplete world. The gods have created a world - they've built mountains, a sea and a sky - and now their days are filled with long naps in the clouds (and tea and cake). That's until Harry, Sue and Little Ben begin to f ...Show more
Mouse Bird Snake Wolf (H/B) by David Almond
25.00 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction
The dream team of David Almond and Dave McKean bring us a complete story set in an incomplete world. The gods have created a world - they've built mountains, a sea and a sky - and now their days are filled with long naps in the clouds (and tea and cake). That's until Harry, Sue and little Ben begin to f ...Show more
My Dad's a Birdman by David Almond
18.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
Join a father and daughter as they find their wings together and take to the skies in this funny, tender tale from the master of contemporary storytelling.Lizzie and Dad live in a rainy town in the north of England. It's just the two of them, and Auntie Doreen, who pops round to check Lizzie's spellings ...Show more
My Dad's a Birdman by David Almond
18.00 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction
Lizzie and Dad live in a rainy town in the north of England. It's just the two of them, and Auntie Doreen, who pops round to check Lizzie's spellings and tell Dad he's daft - and make them nice hot dumplings. But today there's something unusual going on: why is Dad building himself a pair of wings and s ...Show more
My Name is Mina (Skellig #2) by David Almond
20.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult | Series: Skellig
Award-winning author David Almond reintroduces readers to the perceptive, sensitive Mina before the events of Skellig in this lyrical and fantastical work. My Name is Mina is not only a pleasure to read, it is an intimate and enlightening look at a character whose open mind and heart have much to teach ...Show more