Ballet Shoes (Puffin Modern Classics) by Noel Streatfeild
$21.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: A\Puffin Book Ser.
Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil are sisters - with a difference. All three were adopted as babies by Great Uncle Matthew, an eccentric and rich explorer who then disappeared, leaving them in the care of his niece Sylvia. The girls grow up in comfort until their money begins to run out and nobody can fi ...Show more
See You in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng
$21.00 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A space-obsessed boy and his dog, Carl Sagan, take a journey toward family, love, hope, and awe in this funny and moving novel for fans of Counting by 7s and Walk Two Moons. 11-year-old Alex Petroski loves space and rockets, his mom, his brother, and his dog Carl Sagan--named for his hero, the real-lif ...Show more
Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories by R J Palacio
$21.00 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Wonder
WONDER tells the story of Auggie Pullman- an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face, whose first year at school changed the lives and the perspectives of everyone around him.AUGGIE & ME is a new side to the WONDER story- three new chapters from three different characters - bully Julian, oldest frie ...Show more
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
$21.00 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Scott O'Dell won the Newbery Medal in 1961 for his unforgettable novel Island of the Blue Dolphins, based on the true story of a Nicole, a girl living in solitude between 1835 and 1853 on San Nicolas Island, only seventy miles off the coast of Southern California. His quietly gripping tale of Karana's s ...Show more
The Thunderbolt Pony (HB) by Stacy Gregg
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
A dramatic and emotional story about one girl's determination to stand by her beloved animals - and her refusal to give up, even in the face of impossible odds. When a devastating earthquake hits Evie's hometown of Parnassus on New Zealand's South Island, she and the rest of the town are forced to evacu ...Show more
Malory Towers Collection (#10-12) by Enid Blyton
$21.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Malory Towers
For new girl Darrell Rivers, there are friends to be made, pranks to be played and fun to be had at Malory Towers in Enid Blyton's best-loved boarding school series. Fun and Games Music concert or Tennis tournament? In book ten, feisty June and new girl Millicent can't agree what's more important. Soon ...Show more
Malory Towers Collection 2 (#4-6) by Enid Blyton
$21.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Malory Towers
For new girl Darrell Rivers, there are friends to be made, pranks to be played and fun to be had at Malory Towers in Enid Blyton's best-loved boarding school series. Upper FourthDarrell is very pleased to be head girl, but Alicia and Betty are determined to ruin her good work. Meanwhile, Darrell's siste ...Show more
Malory Towers Collection (#7-9) by Enid Blyton
$21.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Malory Towers
For new girl Darrell Rivers, there are friends to be made, pranks to be played and fun to be had at Malory Towers in Enid Blyton's best-loved boarding school series. New Term Darrell has left Malory Towers and her sister Felicity takes over as head girl. But the other girls are determined to cause troub ...Show more
Malory Towers Collection (#1-3) by Enid Blyton
$21.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Malory Towers
For new girl Darrell Rivers, there are friends to be made, pranks to be played and fun to be had at Malory Towers in Enid Blyton's best-loved boarding school series.First TermNew girl Darrell is two terms behind her classmates and feels out of place and alone. Soon, however, Darrell makes friends as wel ...Show more
Ship of Dolls by Shirley Parenteau
$22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Can a ship carrying Friendship Dolls to Japan be Lexie's ticket to see her fun-loving mother again? A heartwarming historical novel inspired by a little-known true event. It's 1926, and the one thing eleven-year-old Lexie Lewis wants more than anything is to leave Portland, Oregon, where she has been st ...Show more
Those Eco-Pirate Kids (#2 Those Kids) by Jon Tucker
$22.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Fin has always been passionate about fishing so when he discovers an illegal net full of undersized fish in Sydney's northern waterways his first reaction is to empty it. The subsequent events turn a joint Kiwi-Australian family holiday into a rather more complex experience. An Arthur-Ransome-inspired ...Show more
Those Snake Island Kids (#1 Those Kids) by Jon Tucker
$22.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
An uplifting tale of youthful naivety, friendship, calamity and triumph. When Jake persuades his family to embark on a sailing-camping holiday on a Tasmanian island, he is mostly interested in pirate fantasies and his home-built Optimist sailing dinghy. But he does not plan on events which are to leave ...Show more