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Armin Greder illustrates the harsh realities of inequality and exploitation in a simple story about Diamonds. With his trademark palette of muted black, grey and the palest of colour, this packs a powerful punch. For Y7+

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2021-06-23

Ruatepupuke rescues his son, Manuruhi, from the carved village of the sea god Tangaroa and discovers whakairo (carving). The legend Tangaroa: The origins of Whakairo is stunningly designed by Maui Studios in a format for Y5-8.

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2021-06-17

returns to the Telesā world weaving a story of greed, relationships, power, the environment and mythology in Fire’s Caress. Teuila returns to Samoa to confront not only the secrets and people from her past, but also her future.

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2021-05-14

Yawn by Patricia Hegarty will make you yawn too. Cutaways give glimpses into the next page & Illustrator Teresa Bellón’s characters' yawns are contagious. Yawn will take you on a journey around the house, neighbourhood and world.

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2021-04-30

Explore the mythology and tikanga of menstruation in Waiwhere – The Red Waters. Many cultures have customs and stories around the onset of a girl’s period. This celebration of womanhood by Ngahuia Murphy, Sean Ellison & tells the unique Māori story.

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2021-03-28

Concrete Rose - prequel to The Hate U Give. Maverick is a teen suddenly left with his infant son. Gang life, juggling work + school + fatherhood. Tough life and tough love – at her best.

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2021-02-26

Laura Martin’s Float relates camping in an imagined world where kids have various RISK factors. With an authentically boy voice, LOL humour, and a definite sense of drama, this is a great for primary to intermediate students.

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2021-02-25

Lachie misses out on playing the hero in the class production, Fantastic Mr Fox – boo! Then he shows his true colours as a hero in his own right – yay! Fantastic Mr Bean is an with a big heart, authentic characters, riffing on

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2021-02-04

Using real events as inspiration, explodes onto the NZ children’s lit scene with The Pōrangi Boy . The fight to stop the building of a prison on sacred land from the authentic point of view of Niko (12) exposes the underbelly of our history.

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2021-01-08

In Nicholas Oldland's exuberant One Wild Christmas, joyful friends Bear, Moose and Beaver love celebrating together, but when they find the perfect tree Bear doesn't want to chop it down and a bright solution must be found.

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2020-12-24

The much anticipated version of the world’s most famous wizard story, has hit the shelves. Hare Pota me te Whatu Manapou brings the magical wizardly world to life through the mauri of te reo Māori for our tamariki of Aotearoa. Ka mau te wehi!

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2020-12-16

Where is It? A Wildlife Hunt for Kiwi Kids by Ned Barraud is a simple concept brought to life with beautiful illustrations. If you are curious about the animals of New Zealand, check it out! Gorgeous. For junior and middle primary students.

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2020-11-25

'And when the storm passes, as it always does, I am the calm too.' give kids confidence to face their fears in various climate-related disasters in I Am the Storm. Illus Kristen + Kevin Howdeshell. A gentle and hopeful for juniors.

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2020-11-24

Before the Ever After by Verse is the perfect vehicle for this tender tale of a boy whose pro-footballer father suffers the consequences of too many concussions, transformed into a suffering, forgetful man his son hardly recognises.

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2020-11-17

Blue by is a story about two birds in a forest and friendship. It’s also about feeling blue and the difference just one person can make to bring you back to life. Beautiful kind and hopeful.

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2020-10-15

takes us into adventure land with Brasswitch & Bot. Book 1 of The Rise of the Remarkables series invests you in the characters & is a real page turner as you try to unpick the secrets & mysteries.

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2020-10-14

Dive into Ruth Paul’s latest dolphin adventure as Little Hector meets Mini Māui. The cousins get to know each other in our gloriously colourful and fun-filled marine world with underlying environmental messages to explore.


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2020-10-13

I raged, I cried, I cheered, I cared. Told in verse, Punching the air is the story of 16yo artist and poet Amal, who swings between deep despair and a thin thread of hope when he is wrongly imprisoned.

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2020-10-06

The bully from 's novel 'Wonder' returns in 'White Bird', a where he discovers how his grandmother was hidden and survived Nazi occupation of France, learning some lessons along the way. Tissue alert.

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2020-09-23

From Reading Warrior and Chad Robertson - Pasifika Coastwatchers tells the story of ordinary men, women and children doing extraordinary things when war came much closer to our part of the Pacific that we like to think.

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2020-08-11