Secrets of Carrick: Tantony by Ananda Braxton-Smith
$7.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Secrets of Carrick | Reading Level: very good
Fermion Quirk's twin brother, Boson, is dead. These last few months he'd spent most of his time with the birds; he said they were angels and brought him his visions. Most of Carrick says the boy was a monster, but a few say he was a saint-in-the-making. The townspeople all look at Fermion now, and wait ...Show more
The Prince of Soul and the Lighthouse by Fredrik Brouneus
$8.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
What happens when we die? This has been the third question on mankind's faq list since the dawn of time (numbers one and two being: Is this edible? and Excuse me, would you care to breed? ). I know what happens. Believe me, I'd rather not. But I do. There is a lighthouse, and it guides our souls alon ...Show more
The Jelly Bean Crisis by Jolene Stockman
$8.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A total meltdown. The whole school watching. Now Poppy's an ex-straight-A student with no Plan B. When Poppy Johnson throws away a full scholarship to Columbia, she can only blame the jelly beans. The yucky green ones? Midnight cram sessions and Saturdays spent studying. The delicious red? The family le ...Show more
True Adventures for Boys by Paul Safont
$10.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: very good
Thrilling tales of derring-do from an age when the truth was more dangerous than fiction
The Secret Runners of New York by Matthew Reilly
$8.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 8
THE COMING END When Skye Rogers and her twin brother Red move to Manhattan, rumours of a coming global apocalypse are building. But this does not stop the young elite of New York from partying without a care. CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET? And then suddenly Skye is invited to join an exclusive gang known as the ...Show more
When God was a Rabbit: From the bestselling author of STILL LIFE by Sarah Winman
$7.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sarah Winman's bestselling, critically-acclaimed debut novel WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT continues to captivate and enchant readers. 1968. The year Paris takes to the streets. The year Martin Luther King loses his life for a dream. The year Eleanor Maud Portman is born. Young Elly's world is shaped by those w ...Show more
Z for Zachariah by Robert C O'Brien
$5.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"I am afraid. Someone is coming."Ann Burden, the lone survivor of a nuclear holocaust, is threatened by the arrival in her valley of an unknown intruder. She hides, he watches and they both wait. Might he be a friend and ally, this scientist in a radiation-proof suit, or have the horrors he has witnesse ...Show more
The Horse and His Boy (#3) by C S Lewis
$7.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Chronicles of Narnia 3 | Reading Level: very good
A full-colour paperback edition of The Horse and His Boy, book three in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with full-colour cover and interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. On a desperate journey, two runaways meet and join forces. Though th ...Show more
Kipling's Choice by Geert Spillebeen
$6.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On the verge of World War I, author Rudyard Kipling's son, John, like his father before him, wanted to fight for his country. But when John's military application was threatened, Rudyard took matters into his own hands, applying all his influence to allow his son to fight in the Great War. And the teena ...Show more
Among Others - Walton, Jo by Jo Walton
$8.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Raised by a half-mad mother who dabbled in magic, Morwenna Phelps found refuge in two worlds. As a child growing up in Wales, she played among the spirits who made their homes in industrial ruins. But her mind found freedom and promise in the science fiction novels that were her closest companions. Then ...Show more
Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages by Walter de la Mare; Warren Chappell (Illustrator)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children | Reading Level: very good
'The most compelling of anthologies, the most leisurely, and the most complete.' Observer First published in 1923, the conception of de la Mare's collection of poetry and prose 'for the young of all ages' had been in the poet's mind for some time. He wanted it to transcend the ordinary anthology, to hav ...Show more
Dangerous Spaces by Margaret Mahy
$12.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
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