Search results for ""Author Kate De Goldi""

Winner, Book of the Year in both Young Adult and General Fiction categories in the author's native New Zealand. A warm, surprising, witty and intelligent novel you will fall in love with. Frankie Parsons is twelve going on old man, an apparently sensible, talented boy with a drumbeat of worrying questions steadily gaining volume in his head:Are the smoke alarm batteries flat?Does the cat, and therefore the rest of the family, have worms?Will bird flu strike and ruin life as we know it?Is the Kidney-shaped spot on his chest actually a galloping cancer?Only Ma takes seriously his catalogue of persistent queries. But it is Ma who is the cause of the most worrying question of all, the one that Frankie can never bring himself to ask. Then the new girl arrives at school and has questions of her own: relentless, unavoidable questions. So begins the unraveling of Frankie Parsons''s carefully controlled world.A perfectly

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A coming of age story, a love story, an earthquake story and a story of finding your way back from grief.Eddy Smallbone (orphan) is grappling with identity, love, loss and religion. It''s two years since he blew up his school life and the earthquakes felled his city. Home life is maddening. His pet-minding job is expanding in peculiar directions. And now the past and the future have come calling in unexpected form. As Eddy navigates his way through the Christchurch suburbs to Christmas, juggling competing responsibilities and an increasingly noisy interior world, he moves closer and closer to an overdue personal reckoning.Eddy, Eddy is a richly layered novel, written with humour and pathos: a love story, peopled with flawed and comical characters, both human and animal; and a story of grief, the way its punch may leave you floundering - and how others can help you find your way back.

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A touching, playful story about family, forgetfulness and friendship.Every Saturday Perry and her father visit her gran, Honora Lee, at the Santa Lucia retirement home. Honora is sharp, outspoken and sull of surprises. Perry adores her, but Gran's memory is failing.As Perry compiles an ABC of life at Santat Lucia for a school project, it seems to her that Gran is losing words just as quickly as she is collecting them. Together the pair provide a unique lens on life, language and growing old. Beautifully illustrated throughout, THE ACB is an uplifting, moving and poetic story which celebrates being different and will delight readers of all ages.

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