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A House Without Walls by Elizabeth Laird
$19.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
A House Without Walls is a powerful story of family, hope and redemption amidst the refugee crisis in Syria from the award-winning Elizabeth Laird, illustrated by Lucy Eldridge. Thirteen-year-old Safiya and her family have been driven out of Syria by civil war. Safiya knows how lucky she is - lucky not ...Show more
Crusade by Elizabeth Laird
$17.98 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Crusade is a richly detailed historical adventure, from Carnegie shortlisted author, Elizabeth Laird. Two boys. Two faiths. One unholy war ... When Adam's mother dies unconfessed, he pledges to save her soul with dust from the Holy Land. Employed as a dog-boy for the local knight, Adam grabs the chanc ...Show more
Dindy and the Elephant by Elizabeth Laird
$17.98 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Bored with her little brother Pog's childish games, Dindy decides that she's finally grown-up enough for a real adventure. While her mother is sleeping and the servants are busy, she takes Pog deep into the tea gardens, a place they are never supposed to go alone. Terrified by a wild animals and snubbed ...Show more
Gloria's Porridge by Elizabeth Laird
$18.99 NZD
Category: Paperback Picture Books | Series: One Story, Many Voices Ser.
Inspired by an Ethiopian folk tale, Gloria's Porridge shows young children how one act can cause a chain reaction and affect other people's lives.When Cat wanted some of Gloria's porridge, he ignored her saying no and ate it all. Gloria then scares Cat who tickles the donkey, who interrupts the bees who ...Show more
Jake's Tower by Elizabeth Laird
$17.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
'It's good that I've found this secret place ...No one can get to to me up there. It's totally safe.' In real life, Jake is never safe. He lives in constant fear of his mother's violent boyfriend. But in his imaginary tower he can dream up his own father - the stranger who gave him a cuddle and a fluff ...Show more
Jungle School (Reading Ladder Level 1) by Roz Davison; Elizabeth Laird; David Sims (Illustrator)
$7.50 NZD
$14.99 (49% off)
Category: CLEARANCE SALE - Fiction | Series: Reading Ladder Level 1 Ser.
It's Jani's first day at school and she's nervous. Will the other monkeys be friendly? Will they all stare at her? Jani is in a wheelchair, and this makes her different. But, thanks to her sense of cheekiness, she makes friends and has a very nice first day at school indeed.
Kiss the Dust by Elizabeth Laird
$19.98 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Kiss the Dust by Elizabeth Laird is an unforgettable, award-winning novel of conflict, persecution and the hardships faced by refugees. Tara is an ordinary teenager. Although her country, Kurdistan, is caught up in a war, the fighting seems far away. It hasn't really touched her. Until now. The secret p ...Show more
Kiss the Dust by Elizabeth Laird
$17.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Tara is an ordinary teenager. Although her country, Kurdistan, is caught up in a war, the fighting seems far away. It hasn't really touched her. Until now. The secret police are closing in. Tara and her family must flee to the mountains with only the few things they can carry. It is a hard and dangerous ...Show more
Secret Friends by Elizabeth Laird
$19.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
What's the good in keeping secrets? Rafaella doesn't find it easy to make friends. She looks and feels different from the others at school. And Lucy is the first to tease, the first to call her "Earwig," until they get to know one another and Lucy sees that Rafaella is full of hopes and ideas, just like ...Show more
Secrets of The Fearless by Elizabeth Laird
$16.95 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
When twelve-year-old John Barr is forced to join the navy his life takes a dangerous turn. As he trains to become a powder monkey on board the mighty HMS Fearless, he soon learns that the ship hides many secrets. Thrust into a sinister world of spies and covert operations, John must go ashore accompanie ...Show more
Song of the Dolphin Boy by Elizabeth Laird
$19.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Finn has always been different, and in the tiny fishing village of Stromhead he sticks out like a sore thumb. Always told to keep away from the water, he's felt that something was missing until one day he dives in and finds that, swimming with the dolphins, he feels completely at home. But his new frien ...Show more
The Fastest Boy in the World by Elizabeth Laird
$17.98 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Eleven-year-old Solomon loves to run! The great athletes of the Ethiopian national team are his heroes and he dreams that one day he will be a gold-medal-winning athlete like them, in spite of his ragged shorts and bare feet. When his grandfather announces that he's going to take Solomon to Addis Ababa, ...Show more