New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults: 2024 Children's Finalists

It's been another wonderful year for children's books in Aotearoa New Zealand, so why not check out the cream of the crop and read one of the finalists for the 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults?

Updated June 30, 2024
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Wellington City Libraries Children's team at Wellington City Libraries
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The grimmelings
King, Rachael 1970-
Paper Book
Three starred reviews! A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year A girl must unravel the mystery behind disappearances in her community and the arrival of a strange boy and a wild horse in this "dark, lyrical, and unforgettable" (School Library...

Junior Fiction Award

The observologist
Clarkson, Giselle
Paper Book
A highly illustrated, playful field guide for budding natural scientists and curious observers of the world right under our noses. Observology is the study of looking. An observologist makes scientific expeditions, albeit very small ones, every day. They notice interesting details in the...

Non-Fiction Award

Ultrawild : an audacious plan for rewilding every city on earth
Mushin, Steve
Join maverick inventor Steve Mushin as he tackles climate change with an avalanche of mind-bending and scientifically plausible inventions to rewild cities and save the planet. Jump into his brain as he designs habitat-printing robot birds and water-filtering sewer submarines, calculates how far...

Non-Fiction Award

Best First Book

Tsunami
Wenlock, Ned
Paper Book
At school, being right isn't always the right answer. Peter is a misfit, an awkward 12-year-old who's mercilessly bullied in school and quietly ignored at home. Peter's lonely life in small-town New Zealand is upended by the arrival of Charlie, a badass girl who might just be...

Best First Book


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