A Poet for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri
$44.99 AUD
Category: Secondary Poetry
Allie Esiri’s beautiful gift anthology, <i>A Poet for Every Day of the Year</i>, is the perfect introduction to 366 of the world’s greatest ever verse writers. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, it is bursting at the seams with familiar favourites and exciting new dis ...Show more
Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis by Susan Hood
$16.99 AUD
Category: Secondary Poetry
The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias Anna ) and her sister Frina outplayed their pursuers while hiding in plain sight during the Holocaust.She wouldn’t be Zhanna. She’d use an alias. A for Anna. A for alive. When the Germans invade Ukraine, Zhanna, a young Je ...Show more
Butterfly Yellow by Thanhha Lai
$19.99 AUD
Category: Secondary Poetry
Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Ibi Zoboi, and Erika L. Sanchez, this gorgeously written and deeply moving own voices novel is the YA debut from the award-winning author of Inside Out & Back Again. 4 starred reviews In the final days of the Việt Nam War, Hằng takes her little brother, Linh, t ...Show more
Cherry Cola by Mara Nkere
$23.99 AUD
Category: Secondary Poetry
Poetry. A young woman and young man in a relationship that is both intoxicating and toxic, exhilarating but ultimately at a cost to each. Experimental in form, this startling debut collection breaks with convention, bringing seemingly polarized forces into combat: religion versus primal desire, love ver ...Show more
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Secondary Poetry
The stunning new novel in verse from the 2019 Carnegie Medal winning author of The Poet X. Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... ...Show more
Don't Call Me a Hurricane by Ellen Hagan
$27.99 AUD
Category: Secondary Poetry
An affecting and resonant YA novel in verse that explores family, community, the changing ocean tides, and what it means to fall in love with someone who sees the world in a different way. It's been five years since a hurricane ravaged Eliza Marino's life and home in her quiet town on the Jersey sho ...Show more
Great or Nothing by Spotswood, Jessica
$32.99 AUD
Category: Secondary Poetry
A reimagining of Little Women set in 1942, when the United States is suddenly embroiled in the second World War, this story, told from each March sister's point of view, is one of grief, love, and self-discovery. In the fall of 1942, the United States is still reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor. Wh ...Show more
Hazard by Frances O'Roark Dowell
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$29.99 (46% off)
Category: Secondary Poetry
A kid filled with rage, kicked off the football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, and his father, newly home from the war in Afghanistan, reckon with the injuries they've caused to others and themselves in this unflinching middle grade novel in verse about love and forgiveness. Everybody knows Haza ...Show more
Honeybee: Poems & Short Prose by Naomi Shihab Nye
$14.99 AUD
Category: Secondary Poetry
"Nye's sheer joy in communicating, creativity, and caring shine through."--Kirkus Reviews A moving and celebratory poetry collection from Young People's Poet Laureate and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye. This resonant volume explores the similarities we share with the people around us--f ...Show more
How Decent Folk Behave (PB) by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Secondary Poetry
We are all just one small disaster away from sinking, and sometimes you only realise when you're gasping for air. On a daylight street in Minneapolis Minnesota, a Black man is asphyxiated - by the callous knee of an officer, by cruel might of state, and under crushing weight of colony. In Melbourne the ...Show more
How to Write a Poem by Melissa Sweet, Kwame Alexander
$29.99 AUD
Category: Secondary Poetry
In this evocative and playful companion to their New York Times bestselling picture book How to Read a Book, Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander teams up with poet Deanna Nikaido and Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet to celebrate the magic of discovering your very own poetry in the world around you. Begin ...Show more
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds; Chris Priestley (Illustrator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017 A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017 A Buzzfeed Bes ...Show more