The Death: The Horror of the Plague by Ananda Braxton-Smith
22.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: Drum
It is the fourteenth century. Europe and China are suffering an outbreak of an unpredictable disease. It sweeps through the population like wildfire. The symptoms are horrific. It kills weak and strong, young and old. It is known by many names. The Plague. The Black Death. The Pestilence. Why did it hap ...Show more
True Stories of Pirates by Lucy Lethbridge
16.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: True Stories
A collection of true stories of piracy, from the first pirates of the Ancient World to the Golden Age of Piracy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Contains true life stories of hardship and brutality, bringing to life the flamboyant characters of the most famous captains and the men who set ou ...Show more
The World Within: A Novel of Emily Bronte by Jane Eagland
25.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
The most mysterious Bronte sister steps into the light in this must-read novel for fans of "Wuthering Heights" and "Jane Eyre." Emily Bronte loves her sisters, responsible Charlotte and quiet Anne, and her brother, tempestuous Branwell. She loves the moors that stretch all around the little village of H ...Show more
Little Warrior by Giuseppe Catozzella
35.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
This book is Pre-read / used. Good condition. A heartbreaking novel, inspired by a true story, about a Somali girl who is willing to sacrifice everything to fulfill her dream of becoming a champion runner. Little Warrior is based on the life of Samia Omar, a girl who grows up in war-torn Somalia det ...Show more
From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple
27.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
In the spring of 587 A.D., 2 men set out from the great desert monastery of St Theodosius, near Bethlehem. It was the start of an extraordinary journey across the entire Byzantine world, and William Dalrymple has followed in their footsteps.
I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives by Caitlin Alifirenka; Martin Ganda
36.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
The true story of an all-American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever.It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. Martin was lucky to even receive a pen-pal letter. There were only ten ...Show more
The Mine's Afire! The Journal of Tommy Carter, Brunnerton, 1896 (My New Zealand Story) by Susan Battye
19.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
This fictional diary records the tragedy, heroism and bitter aftermath of the worst industrial disaster in New Zealand's history - the Brunner Mine Disaster of 1896. The son of a coalminer from Lancashire who is working in the Brunner mine, Tommy is a typical boy living in the West Coast mining communit ...Show more
How Angel Peterson Got His Name by Gary Paulsen
22.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
Gary Paulsen's slapstick tales capture the "wonderful madness" of growing up in a small town in northern Minnesota, when high spirits, showing off for girls, and general idiocy led Gary and his pals to attempt some amazing stunts, including: *Shooting a waterfall in a barrel *Breaking the world spee ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
26.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
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The Dogs of Winter by Bobbie Pyron
19.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
When Mishka is abandoned on the streets of Moscow he falls in with a gang of other homeless children, hoping they'll give him a chance of survival. But as winter freezes the city and food becomes scarce, he is left alone, to fend for himself. Help comes in an unexpected form: Mishka is adopted by a pack ...Show more
Cup Magic: Auckland/San Diego 1995 (My New Zealand Story) by Susan Battye
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Fictionalised diary of Mike Lucas whose parents are involved in Team New Zealand’s 1995 America’s Cup challenge in San Diego, where Peter Blake’s Black Magic boat wins the cup. Mike is sent to live with his grandparents in Takapuna, where he learns to sail, and eventually he travels to San Diego to supp ...Show more
Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filipovic
18.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
Zlata Filipovic was given a diary shortly before her tenth birthday and began to write in it regularly. She was an ordinary, if unusually intelligent and articulate little girl, and her preoccupations include whether or not to join the Madonna fan club, the fate of the supermodels, her piano lessons, he ...Show more