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Finch by Penny Matthews
$18.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Audrey is used to not fitting in. She knows she's different - even her little sister calls her "Nerd Girl". When her family moves to the country to live on a vineyard property, Audrey makes a secret friend: a boy, Finch, who seems to understand her as nobody else can. But there's something mysterious ab ...Show more
Meet Ruby (Our Australian Girl - Ruby #1) by Penny Matthews
$17.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Our Australian Girl
Meet Ruby and join her adventure in the first of four stories about a happy-go-lucky girl in a time of great change. It's 1930 and Ruby Quinlan lives in a big house in Adelaide with her parents and her fox terrier, Baxter. As she gets ready for her twelfth birthday party, Ruby has never been happier. Bu ...Show more
One Night by Penny Matthews
$29.00 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
On the first Christmas Eve, so the story goes, the animals were given a very special gift to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Since then, at midnight on Christmas Eve the animals remember. A beautiful retelling of an old Christmas folktale.
Our Australian Girl: Meet Nellie (Book 1) by Penny Matthews
$17.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1849 Ser.
It's 1849 . . . and Nellie O'Neill is arriving in South Australia on a ship bringing orphan girls from Irish workhouses. Nellie and her best friend, Mary, have left the famine in Ireland far behind, and are full of hopes and dreams for the future. Nellie longs to learn to read, to be part of a family on ...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
The Gift by Penny Matthews
$29.00 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
A rather plain bear sits next to a gorgeous plush crocodile in the toyshop. As Christmas shopping becomes frantic, each one hopes to be chosen as a gift, and to find a home with a child to love him. But as hope dwindles, the little bear makes his own gift to the crocodile.
The Gift by Penny Matthews
$21.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books
A rather plain bear sits next to a gorgeous plush crocodile in the toyshop. As Christmas shopping becomes frantic, each one hopes to be chosen as a gift, and to find a home with a child to love him. But as hope dwindles, the little bear makes his own gift to the crocodile.
Zizzy by Penny Matthews
$21.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books
Zizzy is a baby sloth who likes nothing better than to hang upside down in a tree. Occasionally he catches a glimpse of blue through the rainforest trees and wonders what it could be. One day a bird offers to show him, and Zizzy is off on the journey of his life. •• Wry, uplifting story about the power ...Show more
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