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Our Australian Girl: Pearlie's Pet Rescue (Book 2) by Gabrielle Wang
$17.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Our Australian Girl
It's 1941...and school is almost over - not just for summer, but forever. Darwin could be bombed any day, and everyone Pearlie knows is leaving for a safer place. Animals and pets of all kinds are being left behind, and Pearlie can't bear it. But can she rescue them all? And what will happen when it's h ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: Poppy Comes Home (Book 4) by Gabrielle Wang
$17.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Our Australian Girl
It's 1864 . . . and Poppy, disguised as a lost princess from India, has joined a travelling medicine show. They're about to enter the town of Beechworth, where her brother Gus told her he was heading months before. Poppy is so happy to think that she might find Gus at last! But when she follows the c ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: Poppy and the Thief (Book 3) by Gabrielle Wang
$17.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Our Australian Girl
It's 1864 . . . and Poppy is on the road again, heading to the town of Wahgunyah. On the way she meets a stranger who seems to know something about her past, and her special letter with the red tiger seal. But the more time she spends with this boy, the more difficult he becomes. Should Poppy trust h ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: Poppy at Summerhill (Book 2) by Gabrielle Wang
$17.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1864 Ser.
It's 1864 . . . and Poppy, disguised as a boy, has escaped from Bird Creek Mission to find her brother, Gus. Life on the road is hard, but Poppy is given shelter at the Summerhill Homestead. There she meets a new friend, Noni - but will Noni discover that Poppy is not who she says she is? And will Poppy ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: Rose in Bloom (Book 4) by Sherryl Clark
$17.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Our Australian Girl
It's 1901 . . . and even the death of Queen Victoria can't stop the growing excitement as Melbourne gets ready to celebrate Federation – on Rose's birthday! Meanwhile at school, Rose loves being involved in the cricket team. She's so focused on the game coming up that she almost doesn't notice Abigail ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: Rose on Wheels (Book 2) by Sherryl Clark
$17.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Our Australian Girl
It's 1900 . . . and Rose feels that Aunt Alice is the only one who understands her. But now it looks as if Aunt Alice is going to live in Adelaide, leaving Rose with a dreadful new governess, Miss Higginbottom! Can Rose stop Aunt Alice leaving Melbourne? And has her chance of going to school gone for ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: Rose's Challenge (Book 3) by Sherryl Clark
$17.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Our Australian Girl
It's 1900 . . . and Rose's world is changing. At last she can go to a proper school where she makes a best friend, learns more than just embroidery and even gets to play in a proper cricket match. But at home, Mother is dangerously ill, Father is worried about Federation, and Aunt Alice is getting in ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: The Grace Stories by Sofie Laguna
$30.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1808 Ser.
For the first time, read all four Grace stories in one beautiful hardback edition.It's 1808 . . .and Grace's world is about to change - from her tough life as a mudlark on the River Thames in London, to the adventures and challenges she faces as a servant girl in a new country.Journey with Grace across ...Show more
Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park
$26.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Australian Children's Classics
'Now then,' thought Abigail, 'something very weird has happened to me. I'm in the last century. I don't know why, and that doesn't matter. I've got to get back.' Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving that it cannot be left in the past. Rediscover the magic of our countr ...Show more
Ruby and the Country Cousins (Our Australian Girl - Ruby #2) by Penny Matthews
$17.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Our Australian Girl Ruby #2
It's 1931 . . . and Ruby and her family have lost everything in the Great Depression. Leaving behind her dad, her school friends and everything she knows, Ruby must move to Kettle Farm to stay with her cousins. Life in the country is new and strange, and Ruby has never felt like such an outsider. Thankf ...Show more
Ruby of Kettle Farm (Our Australian Girl - Ruby #4) by Penny Matthews; Lucia Masciullo (Illustrator)
$17.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1930 Ser.
Follow Ruby and join her adventure in the final of four stories about a happy-go-lucky girl in a time of great change.It's 1931, and Kettle Farm is starting to feel like home, but Ruby is still desperately worried about her dad. He hasn't written for weeks, and nobody knows where he is. Will Dad ever co ...Show more
Songs of a War Boy (Young Readers Edition) by Deng Thiak Adut; Ben Mckelvey
$19.99 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction | Series: Australian
Deng Adut was six years old when war came to his village in South Sudan. Taken from his mother, he was conscripted into the Sudan People's Liberation Army. He was taught to use an AK-47 then sent into battle. Shot in the back, dealing with illness and the relentless brutality of war, Deng's future was b ...Show more