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1918: Broken Poppies (Kiwis at War) by Des Hunt
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Kiwis at War
Four Christmases have passed since the world went to war in 1914. Struggling to survive in the trenches, close to enemy lines, amid the terror of gunfire and the whine of warplanes, Kiwi soldier Henry Hunt rescues a shaken little dog. He has no idea he'll soon be facing a disciplinary hearing. To Henry' ...Show more
Climate Change (Inside Bubble Earth) by Des Hunt
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
What causes climate? What changes climate? Des Hunt takes us on an in-depth look at the science of climate and what we can all do to help the earth thrive. Favourite Kiwi eco-fiction writer, Des Hunt, presents the facts about the changes in the world’s climate and the effects of human actions in this no ...Show more
Crown Park by Des Hunt
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Jack Stewart hates his new life in Taupo until he meets Fluoro, Taupo's most visible street person. Fluoro lives in a old explosion crater in Crown Park, which provides a link to the last eruption of Lake Taupo, two thousand years before. With Fluoro's help, Jack learns to take his mind back to that tim ...Show more
Eagle Swamp by Des Hunt
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Geology expert Professor Mike Rackman is studying the Alpine Fault, a 600 km long crack that runs the length of New Zealand's South Island. Every 300 years or so, the fault cracks causing massive earthquakes and tsunami. Mike hopes his studies will help predict the next big one. Unfortunately, he disapp ...Show more
Project Huia by Des Hunt
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
As children, Logan's grandfather and his sister Mavis spotted a beautiful and unusual bird in the kowhai tree outside their house: it was a huia, which was believed to be extinct. In an attempt to photograph it they tracked it deep into the Manawatu Gorge. This was a dangerous journey, made even more s ...Show more
Red Edge by Des Hunt
$9.99 NZD
$19.99 (50% off)
Category: CLEARANCE SALE - Fiction
Twelve-year-old Cassi Whelan and her dad have just moved into a repaired house on the edge of Christchurch's Red Zone. Although Cassi was only four when earthquakes decimated Christchurch, her memories still haunt her. An obsessive runner, she finds the wide-open spaces of the cleared Red Zone suit her ...Show more
Search for a Kiwi Killer by Des Hunt
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Kerikeri is kiwi country. There the flightless birds live in common places like farms, sides of roads, and pine forests. There are signs everywhere saying dogs must be on leads. When dead kiwi are found in nearby Waitangi forest, it becomes clear that someone is ignoring the signs. A kiwi killer is on t ...Show more
Sunken Forest by Des Hunt
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Sent to live with his grandmother in Hastings after his father is jailed, Matt becomes the victim of bad friends and false accusations. Sent off on a military-style school camp to the wilds of Lake Waikaremoana, Matt again gets in trouble for something he didn't do, and is unjustly punished. Not allowed ...Show more
To Trap a Thief by Des Hunt
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
A man who hands out $100 notes like they were peanuts. A small-town loser robbed of a big lottery win. A young woman held against her will. Liars, thieves, scammers, hijackers ... Connor expects little from his campervan holiday with the elderly couple who are soon to be his step-grandparents. 'Mega bor ...Show more
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