HeyJaredAnn Packer
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- Jul 29, 2026
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- Jul 15, 2026
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Mission critical: Ann Packer surveys the best new junior and YA fiction (opens the original)
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There's something for everyone, from magical realms and adventure, to high school romances and finding identity. Photo / Getty Images By Graci Kim (Penguin Random House, $24) Korean-born Kiwi Graci Kim established herself as a writer of fantasy with the bestselling Gifted Clans trilogy, set in LA. Kim, a former diplomat, is a finalist in this year’s NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults with Dreamslinger, one of the Listener’s 50 Best of 2025, a story inspired by Korean mythology in which
Book of the day: Degrees of Happy by Philippa Werry (opens the original)
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Philippa Werry sets her novel around the SGCNZ Shakespeare Festival and crafts a delightful coming-of-age story that adults will enjoy. Photo / Supplied Moving towns is bad enough. Moving schools is worse. Having to do both while grieving for a dead sister is about as bad as it gets. Tess’s family moves back to a thinly disguised New Plymouth, which she calls Toytown, in this witty first-person novel. It’s a place you leave rather than return to, she thinks. Yet her folks have returned, so she’s
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