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Koala Bare by Jackie French
$19.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books
For too long koalas have been called bears. But this koala is out to prove to the world that he is BARE! And that never, ever, ever can a koala be called a bear From the internationally renowned author of the bestselling Diary of a Wombat comes a hilariously funny picture book that Jackie French has ...Show more
Millie Loves Ants by Jackie French; Sue deGennaro (Illustrator)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
From the award-winning talented duo who created THE HAIRY-NOSED WOMBATS FIND A NEW HOME. Ages 4+ 'My friend Millie just loves ants.' Emily is intrigued to know why Millie the echidna loves ants so much. And so Emily carefully observes Millie until she discovers her secret. Millie is collecting food for ...Show more
Ming and Flo Fight for the Future (#1 The Girls Who Changed the World) (CBCA Notable 2023) by Jackie French
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy, Magic and Science Fiction | Series: The\Girls Who Changed the World Ser.
An empowering and exhilarating look at the girls who went before us, and the way they shaped the world. Twelve-year-old Ming Qong is convinced that girls must have changed the world, even if they are rarely mentioned in history books. So when Ming gets the chance to go back in time she imagines herself ...Show more
Ming and Hilde Lead a Revolution (The Girls Who Changed the World, #3) by Jackie French
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: The\Girls Who Changed the World Ser.
The third book in the best-selling Jackie French historical series that places girls centre stage. Ming Qong is convinced that girls have changed history throughout the world. She's faced danger and adventure when Herstory sent her to the past to witness girls' bravery in the incredible feats left out ...Show more
Ming and Marie Spy for Freedom (The Girls Who Changed the World, #2) by Jackie French
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy, Magic and Science Fiction | Series: The\Girls Who Changed the World Ser.
An empowering and exhilarating look at the girls who went before us, and the way they shaped the world. Ming Qong is convinced that girls have changed the world throughout history. So when Ming is thrust back in time, to Belgium during WW1, only to be rescued from a burning cellar by Marie, an experien ...Show more
My Name Is Not Peaseblossom by Jackie French
$19.99 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction
A FRESH REINTERPRETATION OF A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM BY THE AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN'S LAUREATE Titania rose to her feet. 'What is going on here, Peaseblossom?' she demanded. I bowed to her. 'I apologise, Your Majesty. But I'd rather be known as Pete.' 'Pete?' She frowned. 'That's no name for a fairy.' 'No ...Show more
Night Ride into Danger (PB) by Jackie French
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
From one of Australia's best-loved storytellers comes an exciting mystery adventure story set in 1874 about the Cobb & Co. It's a dark and dangerous journey for the Cobb and Co night mail coach, but when his coach-driver father is injured, young Jem Donovan must take the reins.Surely a boy like Jem ...Show more
No Hearts of Gold by Jackie French
$32.99 NZD
Category: NZ Teen Fiction
SOME GIRLS ARE BORN TO BE LOVED,SOME ARE BORN TO BE USEFUL,AND SOME ARE BORN TO BE BAD ... Indulged and wealthy Kat Fitzhubert is 'sold' in an arranged marriage to a colony across the world. Lady Viola Montefiore is the dark-skinned 'changeling' of a ducal family, kept hidden and then shipped away. Tita ...Show more
Ophelia: Queen of Denmark by Jackie French
$19.98 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction
Following on from I AM JULIET (August 2014), this is the second title in a proposed new series for young people that focuses on the reinterpretation of Shakespeare's classic and enduring plays. Ages: 10+ Who was Ophelia? She only appears twice in the play Hamlet. The rest of the time we only hear about ...Show more
Oracle by Jackie French
$22.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Nikko lives in a small farming village in Greece near the stronghold of Mycenae in 1200 BC. When his sister Thetis is born, Nikko rescues her from the hillside where she has been abandoned, setting off an unforeseen chain of events. Thetis survives the trauma of her birth but is rendered mute until the ...Show more
Pandemic (HB) by Jackie French
$29.99 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
The war carried the Spanish flu across the world. Faces grew masks. Shops and schools wore signs that said, Closed. Families nursing the sick drew their curtains together to say their house was quarantined... From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire, Cyclone and Drought, comes this powerful story ...Show more
Pennies For Hitler by Jackie French
$19.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Matilda
It's 1939, and for Georg, son of an English academic living in Germany, life is full of cream cakes and loving parents. It is also a time when his teacher measures the pupils' heads to see which of them have the most 'Aryan'- shaped heads. But when a university graduation ceremony turns into a pro-Nazi ...Show more