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Pennies for Hitler #2 (Audio CD, unabridged 8 CDs) by Jackie French
$29.95 NZD
Category: DVDs, CDs and Books with CDs
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
Rain Stones 25th Anniversary Edition (Short Stories) by Jackie French
$19.98 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Anniversary edition of the first book Jackie French published with A & R. This is where a truly remarkable career began. 'Rain Stones' and the other stories in this collection reveal that the country is a magical place, that there is an extra dimension to be found by those whose minds and hearts are ...Show more
Refuge by Jackie French
$19.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Refuge centres around a 14-year-old Afghan boy who spent much of his life in Pakistani refugee camps before making the voyage from Indonesia to Australia. As the boat crashes against the rocks of Christmas Island he loses consciousness and awakes to find himself in the life he has always dreamed of in A ...Show more
Rocket Your Child into Reading by Jackie French
$25.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Written in Jackie French's inimitable style, one of the aims of this book is to help parents and teachers identify children's reading difficulties and then suggest ways to deal with them.The book is full of useful and practical solutions, rather than long, dense paragraphs dripping with educational theo ...Show more
Secret Sparrow by Jackie French
$19.99 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction
This is the story of women who fought during WW1, but not as nurses or ambulance drivers. In 1917 sixteen-year-old Jean McLain is working as a Post Office assistant in England. But when she wins a national Morse code competition, the British army makes a request Jean cannot refuse – to take a secret pos ...Show more
Shark Attack (Animal Rescue #4) by Jackie French
$13.50 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds | Series: Animal Rescue
Warning: toxic! A grey nurse shark colony is under attack - an old mining dam has collapsed in a savage storm, sending a flood of toxic mud towards the sharks' breeding ground! Leo and Mozz need to rescue them before it's too late! But when the SkyTiger falls into trouble, will Leo and Mozz be the ones ...Show more
The Beach They Called Gallipoli by Jackie French
$11.99 NZD
$19.99 (40% off)
Category: History and Pre-History
An extraordinary exploration of Gallipoli created by the incredible Jackie French and Bruce Whatley Many books have been written about the battles of Gallipoli; the men who went to war and what they faced, the letters, and the tears of those left behind. But this is a book about Gallipoli, the place, an ...Show more
The Beach They Called Gallipoli (HB) by Jackie French; Bruce Whatley
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
An extraordinary exploration of Gallipoli created by the incredible Jackie French and Bruce Whatley Many books have been written about the battles of Gallipoli; the men who went to war and what they faced, the letters, and the tears of those left behind. But this is a book about Gallipoli, the place, an ...Show more
The Book of Horses and Unicorns by Jackie French
$24.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
From Australia's Children's Laureate comes a delightful collection of stories about horses and unicorns. Take a journey through the ages and around the world - from ancient Greece, to the time of Genghis Khan to Arthurian England and then to outback Australia in the 1950s. Each story weaves the fantasti ...Show more
The Donkey Who Carried the Wounded (The Animal Stars #4) by Jackie French
$19.98 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction | Series: The Animal Stars
Jack Simpson's training as a stretcher-bearer hasn't prepared him for the horror of the Anzac landing on Gallipoli Peninsula. But when he finds a donkey who has survived being thrown overboard from a ship, the two form a partnership that will become famous. And when the battle is over there is still wor ...Show more
The Ghost by the Billabong (#5 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$22.99 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction | Series: The Matilda Saga
Hippies wear beads, demonstrators march against the Vietnam War, and the world waits to see the first human steps on the moon's surface. But at Gibbers Creek, Jed Kelly sees ghosts, from the past and future, at the Drinkwater billabong where long ago the swaggie leaped to his defiant death. But is seven ...Show more
The Ghost of Howlers Beach (Butter O'Bryan Mysteries #1) by Jackie French
$19.99 NZD
Category: Mystery and Detective Stories | Series: Butter O'Bryan Mysteries
Butter O'Bryan has been told there are ghosts on Howlers Beach, but are there? Howlers Beach, 1932 Butter O'Bryan lives in a Very Small Castle with his father and three aunts - Aunt Elephant, Aunt Cake and Aunt Peculiar. These aren't their real names, of course, just as Butter's father isn't really call ...Show more