A heartfelt and poignant story, Nell Mace-David

The 10 PM Question
Kate De Goldi
Longacre Press
Published 2008

 

 

 

 

 

November 21, 2022

The 10 PM Question by Kate De Goldi is a profound book about the unsolvable problems of real life and finding courage in the face of adversity.

Twelve-year-old Frankie Parsons is an average boy. Or, he’d like to be anyway. It is kind of hard to be normal when your mother never leaves the house, but then again, that is Frankie’s normal. And on top of that, Frankie has questions. Questions like ‘are the smoke alarm batteries flat?,’ and ‘does the Fat Controller (Frankie’s cat) have worms, and does that mean he does too?’  Read more

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A heartfelt story about young love, Sana Sharma

Invisibly Breathing
Eileen Merriman
Penguin
2019

 

 

 

 

 

July 26, 2022

Invisibly Breathing by Eileen Merriman is a loving book about unconventional love and bullying.

The story begins with Felix taking a thousand steps on the way to school in Lower Hutt. He’s thinking about his favourite number when bullies stop him in his path and ruin his count, making him late for school. There he meets Bailey, a boy who gets mocked for having a stutter as he tries to answer a math question, simple – in Felix’s eyes.

Felix Catalan is a sixteen-year-old boy who is socially awkward and known as ‘freak-out Felix’ or ‘crazy Catalan’ due to his anxiety attacks at school.  Read more

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Connecting threads weave an intricate story, Savarna Yang

Eddy, Eddy
Kate De Goldi
Allen & Unwin
Pub. 2022

 

 

 

 

 

July 7, 2022

Eddy Smallbone is 19 years old and an orphan, New World employee, pet minder and unintentional babysitter. His story starts just after the death of his much-loved dog. Struggling with life after the Christchurch earthquakes, he is living with his eccentric uncle, ‘Brain’, and trying to figure out what he wants to do next. Should he find his own place to stay? Get a ‘proper’ job? Leave Christchurch?

But these questions fall away as he meets new friends and reconnects with old ones and realises that what he’s looking for is already right in front of him.  Read more

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