My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
14.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist G ...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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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