Author: Kate De Goldi Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN: 1775535770 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 304
Book Description
Meet filmmaker Barney Kettle, who liked to invent stories but found a real one under his nose. Barney Kettle knew he would be a very famous film director one day, he just didn’t know when that day would arrive. He was already an actual director – he’d made four fifteen-minute films – but so far only his schoolmates and the residents of the High Street had viewed them. Global fame was a little way off. It would come, though. Barney was certain about that ... So begins the manuscript written from the hospital bed of an unnamed man. He has written it over many months as he recovers from serious injuries sustained in a city-wide catastrophe. He has written so he can remember the street where he lived, home to a cavalcade of interesting people, singular shops, and curious stories. He has written so he can remember the summer before he was injured, the last days of a vanished world. Above all, he has written so he can remember the inimitable Barney Kettle, filmmaker, part-time dictator, questing brain, theatrical friend; a boy who loved to invent stories but found a real one under his nose; a boy who explored his neighbourhood with camera in hand and stumbled on a mystery that changed everything ... A beautiful story: big-hearted, richly entertaining, powerful. 2016 Storylines Notable Junior Fiction Award and winner of the Esther Glen Award at the 2016 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.
Author: Kate De Goldi Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN: 0143772015 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 209
Book Description
Winner of the NZ Post Children's Book Awards, this compelling novel explores truth and lies, guilt, grief and love. 'So where does the truth lie?' said Jeremiah. 'Huh, truth lies. Truth lies,' I said, giving up before I started, knowing I could never explain. Months after her life has been brought to a standstill, Catriona Stuart is embarking on a painful search for the truth. The truth about her boyfriend, Jeremiah, and his dangerous brother Simeon. The truth about her mother, about her past, and most of all about herself and her secret and why her world fell apart.
Author: Kate De Goldi Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN: 0143772058 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 201
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A prize-winning novel about friendship, family and an impossible love. 'What made March really significant, what seared it on both our brains, was that Westie met his birth mother, Vicky, for the first time, a secret assignation . . . and I met Meredith Robinson . . .' Max Jackson tells the story of his friendship with Westie, from its wild, head-smacking glory to its bitter misunderstandings. In just one tumultuous year, a volatile cocktail - two young men, two women, love and hate and the weight of the past - changes that friendship for ever. Winner of the Young Adult Fiction Honour Book Prize at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards
Author: Kate De Goldi Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN: 0143772031 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 205
Book Description
A moving story of young - and old - love. 'He looks at me now, full face, and I can see how drawn, how much older that face is - dark pits under his eyes, lines of tiredness. He's not the warrior king I fell for eight months ago.' Christy is under siege. Her father is dangerously near losing it, her grandmother has lost it and Christy fears she has lost her boyfriend to a peacekeeping assignment in Bosnia. In an attempt to uncover an old family secret and sort out all her relationships, she plans a train journey to the West Coast . . .
Author: Kate De Goldi Publisher: ISBN: 9780473111441 Category : Children's stories, New Zealand Languages : en Pages : 36
Book Description
Billy Button can't keep his mouth shut or his temper under control. It makes preparation for the annual Pet and Produce Day a nightmare. Lolly relates her version of the events and Billy's struggle to express himself under the creative guidance of the inimitable Ms Love. Billy's imagination runs riot, and so do the events of Pet and Produce Day, just the way Ms Love likes things to go: not with a whimper, but a bang! A sophisticated picture book. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
Author: Kate De Goldi Publisher: ISBN: 9780476009127 Category : Children's stories, New Zealand Languages : en Pages : 34
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Just about everyone is in a club, except Lolly. Since her cat is called Laughing Stock, he won't help her qualify to join the Kitten Club, and only boys can be in the Harry Potter Club and Lolly is just not interested in the Barbie Club! Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
Author: Jennifer Donnelly Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers ISBN: 035806368X Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 417
Book Description
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
Author: Kate De Goldi Publisher: ISBN: 9780473100643 Category : Languages : en Pages : 34
Book Description
This story ventures into the interior world of a luminous, quirky personality, a character evoked in such a way that his age and capacity beguile and puzzle right up to the story's climax. The night and day of Uncle Jack's imaginative world, his fears and fantasies and fabulous passions come to life with characters reminiscent of mythology, nurseryrhymes and childhood stories. Rich with the warmth of family life and rituals, this book explores the power of light-handed loving and the ability to be gloriously who you are. 'Our Uncle Jack wears a navy-blue duffle coat, a ninety-year old pork pie hat and scuffed gumboots painted with lightening bolts. He comes every Friday for fish 'n chips, but we must never mention that the fish once had eyes and a mouth and swam in the sea. Old Jack, he's a softie for furs and feathers and fins, our Granddad says. Best not go there.'
Author: Kate De Goldi Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd. ISBN: 1848774729 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 209
Book Description
Twelve-year-old Frankie Parsons has a head full of questions. Only Ma takes him seriously, but unfortunately she is the cause of the most worrying question of all, the one Frankie can never bring himself to ask. Then a new girl arrives at school with questions of her own, questions that make Frankie's carefully controlled world begin to unravel . . .
Author: Willa Cather Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 0486849708 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
This bittersweet tale about a professor's desire to stay in his old study and cling to what used to be on the eve of moving into a new house sparks deep introspection in a story that explores a mid-life crisis and family life in a 1920s Midwestern college town.
Author: Kate De Goldi
Author: Kate De Goldi
Author: Kate De Goldi
Author: Kate De Goldi
Author: Kate De Goldi
Author: Kate De Goldi
Author: Jennifer Donnelly
Author: Kate De Goldi
Author: Kate De Goldi
Author: Willa Cather