Penguin New Zealand: 464 books

**Practical and brilliantly helpful advice on how to give your child clear limits so that they can learn how to behave well.**Time out is a vital parenting tool, and in this book parenting expert Diane Levy explains how best to use it in all situations for children of all ages. She believes children...

A compelling novel with an unexpected revelation that throws a powerful punch. Yank is an ordinary enough teenager, except that he lives in a thermal wonderland (frequented by tourists eager to view the geysers and boiling mud) and except for the fact that one of those tourists (an American soldier...

**Edgy, insightful and brilliantly evoked, this compelling novel is impossible to put down.**Four sisters meet for a holiday on the spectacularly beautiful Cinque Terre coast of Italy. One of the sisters goes missing. Under the stress, the hidden emotional and sexual rivalries between the others are...

**Lively, pertinent and honest about the realities of growing older, this thoroughly engaging novel is impossible to put down.**Fifty-nine and widowed, with not much money coming in and not many friends, Clarice decides to buy a flat with Una, an acquaintance from her school days. The perfect solution?...

**A novel of linked stories about a woman's search for identity beyond family ties, expectations and demands.**Bethany Dixon is at the centre of a complex network of relationships. She is mother and stepmother, wife and ex, daughter-in-law, sister and lover. Earthy, generous, addicted to children...

**Magnificent fantasy adventure story, with a romance at its heart, this book is a page-turner.**This is a richly imagined fantasy adventure story, beautifully and forcefully written by NZ Post Award-winning Anna Mackenzie. Risha is strong and outspoken, and at 16 has developed into a leader of men,...

**Wry and insightful, this short story is told by a young American girl, who is all too knowing about her own world, but ignorant about the Kiwi strangers she meets.**When Ruthie's father needs a drink, he takes his young daughter with him. She sits in the bar, with her pink panther, watching the...

A gripping adventure based on an ancient Maori myth is brought to life in this award-winning junior novel. 'A dark shape hurtled out of the fog . . . The bird turned in a curving steep dive, aiming for Tama . . . The boy was being dragged beneath it, his feet barely brushing the tops of tussocks ....

**A thrilling young adult historical adventure novel about a boy on a ship forced to survive the elements as well as the ruthless crew.**Set in the 1840s, Seal Boy tells the story of Emmet Tyler, a 14-year-old from the US port of Boston whose privileged upbringing has brought him a life of education...

**YA thriller about a teen discovering the truth of his grandfather's terrible past as a World War Two fighter pilot.**When 17-year-old Matt dreams that he is a World War Two pilot in a dogfight against the Germans, something strange happens. Was it a dream? Because later that morning, the family...

**Poignant YA historical romance between a teen who runs away to fight in World War One, and his sweetheart back at home.**Harry Wainwright is 17, not quite 18, but he can't wait to enlist for the Great War - so instead of going back to boarding school he runs away to war. He does this with the help...

**A powerful YA fictional examination of war told through three interlocking stories.**Monsters of Blood & Honour contains three stand-alone stories, each with a related theme. In each story a teenager of 17 or 18 interacts with an elderly person who was their age during World War II. Each of...

**A brilliant novel about history, the forgetting and rewriting of it, and a satire on a society that has lost compassion in the process.**Smooch is a 'Whistler', a genetically altered lapdog with special talents, including the ability to remember his previous incarnations and to communicate directly...

A powerful novel about friendship, guilt and sex and our changing notions of loyalty and culpability. Friends since childhood, Norman and Lyn grow up as next-door neighbours at the turn of the twentieth century. When Lyn is sent to manage a central North Island timber mill at the tender age of fourteen,...