The Elephant in the Room by Holly Goldberg Sloan
$18.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Feelings travel even when people can't... It's been almost a year since Sila's mum travelled halfway around the world to Turkey, hoping to secure the immigration paperwork that would allow her to return to her family in the United States. The long separation is almost impossible for Sila to bear. But t ...Show more
Five Go Off in a Caravan by Enid Blyton
$12.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Meet Julian, Dick, Anne, George, and Timothy. Together they are the Famous Five - the irrepressible heroes of Enid Blyton's most popular adventure series. In book five, the Famous Five go on a caravan holiday together. When they stumble across a circus troupe, the gang are thrilled. But some of the circ ...Show more
Five on Kirrin Island Again by Enid Blyton
$12.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Meet Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timothy. Together, they are the Famous Five - the irrepressible heroes of Enid Blyton's most popular adventure series. In book six, Uncle Quentin has locked himself away on Kirrin Island. What's he up to and why won't he let anyone visit? Then the Famous Five discover ...Show more
Five go to Smuggler's Top. by Enid Blyton
$12.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Meet Julian, Dick, Anne, George, and Timothy. Together they are the Famous Five - the irrepressible heroes of Enid Blyton's most popular adventure series. In book four, the Famous Five stay at the big old house at Smuggler's Top. They discover secret hiding places, underground tunnels, and one night the ...Show more
Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Atkinson
$17.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
The famous classic Scottish tale based on the true story of a dog's devotion to his master, first published in 1912, loved and widely read all over the world. Bobby, a sparky silver-haired Skye terrier, adopts lonely shepherd Auld Jock, for his master and the two become inseparable. When Jock is dismiss ...Show more
Alice-Miranda in Egypt (#20) by Jacqueline Harvey
$21.00 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Alice-Miranda
Join Alice-Miranda and her friends as they head to Egypt on another adventure full of intrigue, humour and action. The Queen’s Colours leadership program is heading to Egypt and Alice-Miranda and her friends are thrilled. There are hidden tombs to explore, a new culture to experience and a lot to learn ...Show more
Katarina Ballerina by Tiler Peck; Kyle Harris
$17.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Katarina Ballerina
A young girl lives out her big ballerina dreams in this graceful start to a new series from New York City Ballet principal dancer and international prima ballerina Tiler Peck and Broadway and television actor Kyle Harris. Ten-year-old Katarina is a New York City girl through and through, but the buzz o ...Show more
When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle
$21.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
It's 1940, and Joseph has been packed off to stay with Mrs F, a gruff woman with no great fondness for children. To Joseph's amazement, she owns the rundown city zoo where Joseph meets Adonis, a huge silverback gorilla. Adonis is ferociously strong and dangerous, but Joseph finds he has an affinity wit ...Show more
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.