Speechless by Adam P. Schmitt
$16.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
How do you give a eulogy when you can't think of one good thing to say? A poignant, funny, and candid look at grief, family secrets, difficult people, and learning to look behind the facade. As if being stuffed into last year's dress pants at his cousin's wake weren't uncomfortable enough, thirteen-year ...Show more
Maria's Island by Victoria Hislop
$27.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A dramatic and moving story set in the same world as the international bestseller The Island from the celebrated novelist Victoria Hislop. The absorbing story of the Cretan village of Plaka and the tiny, deserted island of Spinalonga – Greece's former leper colony – is told to us by Maria Petrakis, one ...Show more
Haywire (Australia's Second World War) by Claire Saxby
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Australia's Second World War Ser.
In 1939, 14-year-old Tom lives in Hay where his family runs the local bakery. Max Gruber is nearly fourteen-years-old. He is sent to his Uncle Ferdy in London, but is then interred and shipped to Australia aboard the Dunera. He arrives in Hay and meets Tom. The two boys become friends and find their liv ...Show more
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 by Sue Townsend
$22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
At thirteen years old, Adrian Mole has more than his fair share of problems - spots, ill-health, parents threatening to divorce, rejection of his poetry and much more - all recorded with brilliant humour in his diary.
A High Five for Glenn Burke by Phil Bildner
$17.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
When sixth grader Silas Wade does a school presentation on former Major Leaguer Glenn Burke, it’s more than just a report about the irrepressible inventor of the high five. Burke was a gay baseball player in the 1970s—and for Silas, the presentation is his own first baby step toward revealing a truth ab ...Show more
It Rained Warm Bread: Moishe Moskowitz's Story of Hope by Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet, Hope Anita Smith
$17.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Moishe was thirteen when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 and he was sent to Auschwitz. His home was ravaged, his family torn apart by illness and abduction. Years of brutality drew on as Moishe moved from one labor camp to the next. Finally, towards the end of the war and at the peak of Moishe's deepes ...Show more
Proud of Me by Sarah Hagger-Holt
$17.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
All I want is for my family to be proud of me... An accessible child-centered story about self-acceptance and the importance of opening up to those closest to you. Becky and Josh are almost-twins, with two mums and the same anonymous donor dad. Josh can't wait until he's eighteen, the legal age when he ...Show more
Night Ride into Danger (PB) by Jackie French
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
From one of Australia's best-loved storytellers comes an exciting mystery adventure story set in 1874 about the Cobb & Co. It's a dark and dangerous journey for the Cobb and Co night mail coach, but when his coach-driver father is injured, young Jem Donovan must take the reins.Surely a boy like Jem ...Show more
Race to the Death (Circus Maximus #1) by Annelise Gray
$24.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Circus Maximus Ser.
Circus Maximus, the greatest sporting stage of the ancient Roman world, where the best horses and charioteers compete in a race to the death, and one girl dreams of glory. Ben Hurmeets National Velvetin the ultimate 9-12 adventure story by debut children's author, Annelise Gray. Twelve-year-old Dido dre ...Show more
Talking to Alaska by Anna Woltz Laura Watkinson
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A powerful story of two unlikely friends brought together by the love of a dog It only takes one day at their new school for Parker and Sven to become mortal enemies. Parker's had a terrible summer and just wants to be invisible, while Sven is desperate to make an impression and be known as anything ot ...Show more
Cardboard Cowboys by Brian Conaghan
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
I'm not a genius. Not yet anyway. But Bruce is. Even though I found him living in a house made of cardboard, he's a massive genius. Fact. So this is mine and Bruce's story. You don't have to believe any of it happened, but it did. All of it. Nobody at school can see past Lenny's size to the person with ...Show more
Camp Midnight (#4 Ella at Eden) by Laura Sieveking
$17.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Ella at Eden
The girls from Eden College are going on a camping trip to Mount Midnight National Park. Ella is nervous but excited about camping in a tent in the middle of the bush. But after some confusion with the groups, Ella and her friends become lost in the National Park. Can they survive the wilderness and get ...Show more