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Conrad Cooper's Last Stand by Leonie Agnew
Category: Middle Grade Fiction
Set in 1978 against the Bastion Point occupation, Conrad Cooper's Last Stand is junior fiction full of humour but with a powerful core. Award-winning author Leonie Agnew has created a surprising, brave and totally engaging novel for young readers. Dear Tane, I've never prayed to a god, so hope this is o ...Show more
Take Me to Your Leader by Leonie Agnew
Category: Junior Fiction
Can Lucas pull off staging an alien encounter and save his tiny country school from closure? A madcap novel by an award-winning author for readers 8 years and older. Eleven-year-old Lucas has got a new worry to add to his long, long list - his rural school is on the Ministry of Education's list for ...Show more
The Importance of Green by Leonie Agnew
Category: Children's
Liam Loveday could not and would not paint without green. He painted aliens and alligators, seasick sailors and grasshoppers sipping green tea on pea-coloured couches. But one day Liam runs out of green paint. How can he paint without his favourite colour? After all, without green lights the traffic won ...Show more
The Impossible Boy by Leonie Agnew
Category: Children's
Can an imaginary friend become real? A spell-binding and exciting new novel from Leonie Agnew, author of the award-winning Conrad Cooper's Last Stand. Benjamin figures Vincent Gum can do anything. Which I can. I'm not possible. Yet here I am. Ben literally pushed me out of his head and into the world. ...Show more
The Impossible Story of Hannah Kemp by Leonie Agnew
Category: Young Adult
This unpublished manuscript was the winner of the 2022 Tessa Duder Award: a powerful exploration of guilt, forgiveness, choice and personal responsibility. Hannah Kemp is dealing with a traumatic accident for which she was responsible. Struggling to come to terms with her guilt, she is ostracized in a ...Show more
The Memory Thief by Leonie Agnew
Category: Children's fantasy
A lonely troll and a fierce, spiky girl form an unlikely alliance in Leonie Agnew's extraordinary novel for children aged 9 years and up. Seth has been trapped behind the iron bars of the public gardens for as long as he can remember. By day he's frozen as a statue of a shepherd boy, but as soon as the ...Show more
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