Gone to the Woods by Gary Paulsen
20.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
From the author of the bestselling Hatchet comes a true story of high-stakes wilderness survival! If not for his eight-hundred-mile journey from the busy Chicago city to a captivating Minnesotan farm aged five, there never would have been a Hatchet. Without the encouragement of the librarian who handed ...Show more
The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron
24.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
DEATH PENALTY FOR ALL WHO GIVE AID TO A JEW.DEATH TO ALL WHO HARBOUR A JEW.DEATH TO ALL WHO FEED A JEW.DEATH TO ALL WHO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION TO A JEW.One knock at the door could be the death of them all...It is 1943, and for four years, sixteen-year-old Stefania Podg rska has been working for the Diam ...Show more
Earthquake! Diary of Katie Bourke, Napier 1930-31 (My New Zealand Story) by Janine McVeagh
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
A story of daily life in the Depression years, culminating in the Napier earthquake. Napier in the 1930s was a time of going without. The story starts on the 25th of June, 1930 – a sad day in the Bourke household – the funeral of Katie’s father. This Catholic family must now survive with earnings from t ...Show more
Castaway: Disappointment Island, 1907 (My New Zealand Story) by Bill O'Brien
19.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Samuel, the keeper of this diary, is 13 when he signs on as a cabin boy aboard a vessel bound for Sydney. The barque Dundonald founders and sinks off Disappointment Island (part of the Auckland Islands group) in the ocean south of New Zealand on 6 March 1907. Fifteen survivors endure a harsh winter on t ...Show more
Usborne War Stories by Paul Dowswell
20.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: True Stories
Recounts some of the most famous tales of intrigue, heroism and adventure of the First and Second World Wars, providing young readers with an insight into the human stories behind both conflicts. This title includes stories that range from the dramatic deeds of soldiers, sailors and airmen on the front ...Show more
The Nazi Hunters by Neal Bascomb
21.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
A thrilling spy mission, a moving Holocaust story, and a first-class work of narrative nonfiction. In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view. Sixteen years later, an elite team of ...Show more
World War I: A Young Boy's Story (Survivors) by Stewart Ross
18.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: Survivors
It's 1914 and France is at war. Fourteen-year-old Pierre Clouet is desperate to help defeat the Germans, but he's too young to fight. The only way he could sign up is if he has false identity papers. So when the opportunity arises, Pierre seizes it with both hands. But the world of war is a gruesome one ...Show more
Rainbow Warrior: Auckland, 1985 (My New Zealand Story) by Sharon Holt
19.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
In this My New Zealand Story, 13-year-old Rowan Webb gets herself a French penpal, and unwittingly becomes involved in an event that shocks not only the nation - but the whole world.
Lost in the Pacific, 1942 (HB) by Tod Olson
22.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
World War II, October 21, 1942. A B-17 bomber drones high over the Pacific Ocean, sending a desperate SOS into the air. The crew is carrying America's greatest living war hero on a secret mission deep into the battle zone. But the plane is lost, burning through its final gallons of fuel.At 1:30 p.m., th ...Show more
Judgement Day (#4 The Science of Discworld) by Terry Pratchett; Ian Stewart; Jack Cohen
28.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: The Science of Discworld
The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with The Really Big Questions, Terry Pratchett's brilliant new Discworld story Judgement Day is annotated with very big footnotes (the interleaving chapters) by mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen, to bring y ...Show more
Hana's Suitcase Anniversary Edition: A true story by Karen Levine
22.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
In 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan, marked Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, and "Waisenkind"--the German word for orphan. In a suspenseful journey, Fumiko, the center's curator, searches for clues to young Hana and her family. Photos.
Paddy The Wanderer by Dianne Haworth
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
The true story of a dog who captured the heart of a city during the Great Depression. Today a statue in Wellington celebrates his status as a much-loved local legend. Like Scotland's Greyfriar's Bobby, Paddy mourned the loss of his human, in his case a little mistress who died of pneumonia, but instead ...Show more