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Beck by Mal Peet; Meg Rosoff
$18.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Both harrowing and life-affirming, the final novel from Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet is the sweeping coming-of-age adventure of a mixed race boy transported to North America. Born from a street liaison between a poor young woman and an African sailor in the 1900s, Beck is soon orphaned and sen ...Show more
Beck by Mal Peet; Meg Rosoff
$24.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Both harrowing and life-affirming, the final novel from Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet is the sweeping coming-of-age adventure of a mixed race boy transported to North America. Born from a street liaison between a poor young woman and an African soldier in the 1900s, Beck is soon orphaned and se ...Show more
Exposure by Mal Peet
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Winner of the 2009 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize Carnegie Medalist Mal Peet takes a searing look at the world of soccer and pop-celebrity culture and the lives of three street kids caught in its glare. When a black South American soccer star signs on to a team in the country's racist south, headline ...Show more
Exposure (Paul Faustino #3) by Mal Peet
$18.95 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: Paul Faustino
A massive soccer star has it all, but someone is plotting his downfall... Revered as a national hero...married to the desirable Desmerelda...cherished by the media...soccer star, Otello, has it all. But a sensational club transfer sparks a media frenzy, and when he is wrongly implicated in a scandal, th ...Show more
Exposure (Paul Faustino #3) by Mal Peet
$18.95 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: Paul Faustino
This is the third Paul Faustino novel by multi-award-winning Mal Peet. A massive soccer star has it all, but someone is plotting his downfall...Revered as a national hero...married to the desirable Desmerelda...cherished by the media...soccer star, Otello, has it all. But a sensational club transfer spa ...Show more
Keeper (#1 Paul Faustino) by Mal Peet
$18.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Paul Faustino
When Paul Faustino of LA NACION flips on his tape recorder for an exclusive interview with El Gato -- the phenomenal goalkeeper who single-handedly brought his team the World Cup -- the seasoned reporter quickly learns that this will be no ordinary story. Instead, the legendary El Gato narrates a spellb ...Show more
Keeper (Paul Faustino #1) by Mal Peet
$19.95 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: Paul Faustino
This is an extraordinary debut novel, winner of the Branford Boase Award and the Bronze Nestle Children's Book Prize. In a newspaper office, Paul Faustino, South America's top football writer, sits opposite the man they call El Gato "the Cat", the world's greatest goalkeeper. On the table between them s ...Show more
Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet
$18.95 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: very good
"Peet's subtle, literary play with narrative voice, style, and chronology make this a satisfyingly sophisticated teen novel." --The Horn Book (starred review) Carnegie Medalist Mal Peet ignites an epic tale of young love against the dramatic backdrop of the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. This br ...Show more
Mr Godley's Phantom by Mal Peet
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
It's 1945 and Martin Heath, like many men at that time, is struggling to settle, to find his place again after the horrors of war. When an old comrade sends him a letter, telling of a position that's just come up with an elderly fellow called Mr Godley in the deepest and loneliest part of Devon. Martin ...Show more
Mysterious Traveller by Mal Peet
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
This is a moving and beautifully researched story about camels, lost princesses and the strength of wisdom and knowledge, stunningly illustrated by P.J. Lynch. This is the second tale in a trilogy from acclaimed storytellers Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham. This one begins with a disgruntled camel, desperat ...Show more
Tamar by Mal Peet
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century earlier. Unravelling, it will transform the younger Tamar's life. ...Show more
The Murdstone Trilogy by Mal Peet
$17.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Award-winning author Philip Murdstone is in trouble. His star has waned. The world is leaving him behind. His agent, the beautiful and ruthless Minerva Cinch, convinces him that his only hope is to write a sword-and-sorcery blockbuster. Unfortunately, Philip - allergic to the faintest trace of Tolkien - ...Show more