The Pickpocket and the Gargoyle by Lindsay Eagar
$22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A beautifully crafted epic adventure spiced with magic from the acclaimed author of Hour of the Bees. Fished from the river as an infant and raised by a roving band of street urchins who call themselves the Crowns, eight-year-old Duck keeps her head down and her mouth shut. It’s a rollicking life, alway ...Show more
World Champions! (#4 Max Einstein) by James Patterson
$17.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Max finally meets her hero, Albert Einstein, as she dashes across glaciers, visits the Great Barrier Reef, and flies a solar-powered jet in a race to stop global warming - before it's too late for planet earth.So far, Max and her team of genius friends have solved problems that no one else could, includ ...Show more
The Little Match Girl Strikes Back by Emma Carroll
$22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
It only takes one strike: A powerful feminist reworking of the Hans Christian Andersen classic, from bestselling and award-winning creators Emma Carroll and Lauren Child. Bridie works hard to feed her family, selling matches on the streets of Victorian London. After an incident leaves her with only thre ...Show more
My Friend the Octopus by Lindsay Galvin
$20.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
From the bestselling author of Darwin's Dragonscomes a high-stakes aquatic adventure, perfect for fans of The Murderer's Ape! England, 1877, and aquarium fever is at its height. Twelve-year-old Vinnie Fyfe works in the tea-shop at Brighton aquarium, and waits for her milliner mother to return from Par ...Show more
Berani by Michelle Kadarusman
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Malia, Ari and Ginger's three distinct voices are interwoven to tell the story of Ginger Juice, an orangutan kept captive in a cage in this powerful and uplifting novel suitable for readers of The One and Only Ivan. Malia has had a privileged upbringing in Indonesia, but since her Indonesian father die ...Show more
Always, Clementine by Carlie Sorosiak
$16.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A funny, wise and heartwarming story, with a truly one-of-a-kind hero, from the author of the highly-acclaimed I, Cosmo and My Life as a Cat. Clementine is a genius. She can calculate pi to 69,689 places, dreams in Latin, and is a chess prodigy. Clementine is also a mouse. But when she escapes from th ...Show more
You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl From Ukraine by Yeva Skalietska
$22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Everyone knows the word "war". But very few understand what it truly means - when you find you have to face it, you feel totally lost, walled in by fright and despair. All of your plans are suddenly interrupted - Until you've been there, you don't know what war is. This is the gripping, urgent and movi ...Show more
The Misunderstandings of Charity Brown by Elizabeth Laird
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Inspired by award-winning author's Elizabeth Laird's own childhood growing up in post-war London, The Misunderstandings of Charity Brown is a classic coming-of-age story, perfect for fans of The Skylarks' War and I Capture the Castle. Charity Brown's life is about to change - her family have been left ...Show more
The Reindeer and the Submarine by Beverley McWilliams
$18.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
'Sometimes things have to change even though we might not want them to.' An orphaned reindeer with no antlers, Pollyanna is raised by Igor, a Saimi herder, and is more at home in the company of people than other reindeer. When she discovers Igor is leaving for war, Pollyanna decides to follow, but en ro ...Show more
Into the Bin (and out again) by Anne Fine
$18.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: 4u2read
Mr. Frost's classroom is always in a mess, and now his class are on a mission to send all the things they don't need off to a charity shop, including the rubbish bin that falls over at the slightest touch! From books to old toys, they bring in all sorts of items to send away in the bin, but little do th ...Show more
The Mystery Series Collection 2 (#4-6) by Enid Blyton
$29.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Whenever there's a mystery, the Find-Outers are on the case! A brilliant bumper collection, from bestselling author Enid Blyton. The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters Someone is sending spiteful letters to the people of Peterswood - but who? Fatty, Larry, Pip, Daisy, Bets and Buster the dog have to find t ...Show more
The Mystery Series Collection 3 (#7-9) by Enid Blyton
$29.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Mystery! Ser.
Whenever there's a mystery, the Find-Outers are on the case! A brilliant bumper collection, from bestselling author Enid Blyton. The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat Mr Goon is on holiday and there's a new policeman in town. While the Find-Outers are up to their usual games, he stumbles upon a puzzling myst ...Show more