The Words to Remember it: Memoirs of Child Holocaust Survivors by Caroline Jones
38.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
In this indescribably moving collection, 32 child survivors of the Holocaust share the stories of their unfathomable experiences of loss, and of their ultimate endurance.
Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan by Jeanette Winter
40.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
Young Nasreen has not spoken a word to anyone since her parents disappeared. In despair, her grandmother risks everything to enroll Nasreen in a secret school for girls. Will a devoted teacher, a new friend, and the worlds she discovers in books be enough to draw Nasreen out of her shell of sadness? B ...Show more
A Victorian Mine Disaster: A Young Boy's Story (Survivors) by Neil Tonge
18.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: Survivors
It's the 1840s in a Victorian mining town and disaster is about to strike. For young John Elliot and his family, life in the shadow of the grinding colliery wheel has always been hard, but there is no alternative for them. The risks are huge and the rewards are few. Part of a unique collection of fictio ...Show more
I Survived the Wellington Avalanche, 1910 (I Survived #22) by Lauren Tarshis
17.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: I Survived
The Wellington snow slide of 1910 was--and still is--the deadliest avalanche in America's history. Lauren Tarshis's story of one child surviving the frozen nightmare pounds with page-turning action and heartwarming hope. The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in dr ...Show more
Gumdigger: Northland, 1899-1900 (My New Zealand Story) by Kath Beatie
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Reuben Radcliffe’s father owns the store in the small township of Waipapa. When the bank forecloses on a loan, Reuben and his family are forced to leave their home and move into a tent. With no money and little food, Reuben has to leave school and find work. Heading north with his father, Reuben joins a ...Show more
The Diary of Laura's Twin by Kathy Kacer
22.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
My name is Sara Gittler and I am thirteen and a half years old. I have lived here behind barbed wire and high walls for more than a year. I dream of walking down a busy street and stopping in a cafe for ice cream and cake. I dream of buying a new dress, or maybe ten of them. Most of all, I dream of bein ...Show more
Lighthouse Family: Coastal NZ, 1941-42 (My New Zealand Story) by Philippa Werry
19.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
For Frances and her family, living on a lighthouse, the war is both far away and scarily close. There are rumours of submarines in the Pacific. The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, taken Singapore and bombed Darwin, so what’s to stop them invading New Zealand next? But soon Frances, the only girl on ...Show more
Here Come the Marines: Warkworth, 1943 (My New Zealand Story) by Lorraine Orman
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
In late 1942 Margaret Glenmore realises that daughter Joyce, who is doing a secretarial course, will probably be manpowered into a war job soon, when the age limit is dropped to 18. Her other daughter, Lillian, is coughing a lot and an x-ray has shown a spot on her lung. Lillian needs to live in a healt ...Show more
Hiding Edith by Kathy Kacer
20.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
In 1938, Edith and her family joined the many Jewish people forced to leave their homes to escape the Nazis. In a desperate bid for survival, Edith was entrusted to the care of a children's home in Moissac, France, where other Jewish children were hiding. All the people of the town promised to keep the ...Show more
Stories of World War One by Tony Bradman
20.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
Tales to remember yesterday's fallen - from today's bestselling authors. Compiled by Tony Bradman, this collection of short stories chronicles the events of World War One - imagining the conflicts and emotions of those people caught up in the war and its aftermath. With stories from Malorie Blackman, Ge ...Show more
Torn Apart - the Partition of India, 1947 by Swapna Haddow
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
A thrilling and moving account of the largest movement of people in history, telling both sides of the story through the voices of children at the heart of Partition. It's October 1947 and two young boysfind themselves thrown together during the dramatic changes of Partition. As the new India and Paki ...Show more
Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz
43.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
Survive. At any cost. 10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Eve ...Show more