It’s New Zealand, 1914, and the biggest war the world has known has just broken out in Europe. William eagerly enlists for the army but his younger brother, Edmund, is a conscientious objector and refuses to fight. While William trains to be a soldier, Edmund is arrested.

Both brothers will end up on the bloody battlefields of France, but their journeys there are very different. And what they experience at the front line will challenge the beliefs that led them there.

Winner, Junior Fiction Award and Children’s Choice Junior Fiction Award, New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, 2013

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Stuart and his twin sister Sandra are coming home to Wellington on the ferry. Stuart knows he’ll enjoy the trip — he’s a good sailor. But it’s April 1968 and the ship is the Wahine. As the tragic events unwind Stuart and Sandra must battle to stay alive.

Winner, Children’s Choice Junior Fiction Award, New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young People, 2004

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Simon is a typical teenager — in every way except one. Simon likes girls, weekends and enjoys mucking about and playing practical jokes. But what’s different is that Simon has muscular dystrophy — he is in a wheelchair and doesn’t have long to live. See Ya, Simon is told by Simon’s best friend, Nathan. Funny, moving and devastatingly honest, it tells of their last year together.

Winner of the Times Educational Supplement Nasen Award, the Silver Pen Award and the Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-loved Book

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