Young adult

365 Days of Wonder has been published in tandem with the reissue of Wonder.

If you missed this beautiful book in its 2012 version you're in luck, because in this 2014 edition there's a whole new chapter telling the story from Julian's point of view.

Amy Ewing's novel The Jewel is the fascinating futuristic tale of Violet Lasting.

Charlie Laird is exhausted. He hasn't had a good night's sleep for weeks because of the witch who visits his dreams.

It is 2008 and in Sri Lanka civil war has been raging on and off since 1983.

This is the first book in a series on each year of WW1, by New Zealand author Susan Brocker.

This is the fifth book in the Billionaire series, featuring Gerald Wilkins as the world's youngest billionaire.

New Zealand author Mandy Hager opens this book with the voice of the Chronicle, the now-old orca of the title, telling of his beginnings and the joy he found before he lost his innocence at the hands of the Hungry Ones - humans.

Good writing can reveal our prejudices as being the shallow things they are. Really good writing does that and entertains the reader at the same time.

Plot analysts and impatient readers beware. If you delve too deeply, or worse, cheat by turning to the final pages of We Were Liars, you will spoil for yourselves one of the best reads you are likely to find this year.

Clover Jones is 15, lives with her mother in suburban Melbourne and doesn't quite fit in with her peer group.

Predictably, this year is seeing a rash of new books with wartime themes and they don't come better than Jill Harris' novel, The Red Suitcase. 

World War 1 and the work of nurses is the theme of Poppy.

The night was ''out of the world spectacular'' was how Harriet Rowland blogged about the launch party for The Book of Hat. 

Jack is deaf, aged 6, and lives with his mum, older sister Janey, Great-gram and three great-aunts, Jess, Bette and Annie.

Conrad Cooper's stepfather (Gaz) is a policeman, one who likes things around the house to be neat and tidy. To ensure Conrad assists with this, there is a list of things for him to do.

Lucy Bee (Bennett, really, but there was another Lucy in her class and Lucy B. became Lucy Bee and stuck) is happy with her life until a nasty boy calls her a fuzzy-headed freak.

Catherynne Valente depicts an intrepid and inquiring time- and space- traveller for a heroine.

The latest book in Bear Grylls' Mission Survival series takes 14-year-old Beck Granger on a trip to South Africa to make a video aimed at saving its rhinos from poachers.