Browse by category
Charlotte and the Golden Promise (New Zealand Girl #3) by Sandy McKay
$14.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: New Zealand Girl
Charlotte loves to play marbles with her best friend Harry and read about adventures on the high seas. But Charlotte will have to leave school soon and help her mother with the house and the younger children. Charlotte can't imagine anything worse. When it looks like her mother is going to keep her home ...Show more
Eureka! by Sandy McKay
$15.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
It's science-fair time again and, as usual, Todd and Joey are stuck for ideas. Their teacher keeps imploring them to look for things in their everyday lives that they could make better, but they still don't have a clue. Then Joey decides the thing that needs the most improvement is his frazzled single m ...Show more
I'm Telling on You (Kiwi Bites) by Sandy McKay & Trevor Pye
$11.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
Timothy is a self-proclaimed tell-tale. While it certainly earns him more enemies than fiends, he believes he is 'doing the right thing' by dishing the dirt on his little sister and his classmates when they do naughty things. However, one day Timothy gets himself into big trouble and finds it's not so e ...Show more
Mr Tripp Goes for a Skate by Sandy McKay
$13.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Walker Stories
Mr Tripp is teaching Room Five about the wheel. On Friday, Wheels Day, everyone is allowed to bring something with wheels. Ted rides a bicycle, Tania wears rollerblades, Jingjing brings her scooter and Lily borrows her brother's BMX. When Miss Filipo suggests Mr Tripp give a skateboard demonstration, it ...Show more
Mr Tripp Smells a Rat by Sandy McKay
$16.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Walker Stories | Reading Level: 5-7
Join Mr Tripp and Room Five for three great stories about an escaped rat, a surprise birthday party and an itchy insect invasion. Room Five's teacher, Mr Tripp, is good at telling jokes, loves riddles and is great at using his nose. When a student's pet rat escapes from its cage, it's up to Mr Tripp ...Show more
One Stroppy Jockey: The Christine Lawn Story by Sandy McKay
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'One minute there you are cruising along just fine and the next minute everything's changed forever.' Feisty, strong-willed and plucky: that's how friends describe jockey Christine Lawn. Drawn by her love of horses to first work as a stable-hand and later as an apprentice jockey, Christine rode ninetee ...Show more
Recycled by Sandy McKay
$16.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Reading Level: 8-12
During a year an average family will probably throw away 1.5 tonnes of rubbish - the equivalent of half the weight of an elephant.Colin takes his recycling school project to heart and tries to convert his own family first, with great difficulty, before he tries to save the world. He becomes a self-appoi ...Show more
When Our Jack Went to War by Sandy McKay
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult
A powerful and moving YA story about two brothers, one of whom goes off to fight in World War One. The author ably conveys how war affects everyone u it's a superb meditation on war and the devastating effects it has on soldiers and their families. It's 1917 and Jack enlists. And although Tom is envious ...Show more
Who Wants to be a Millionaire by Sandy McKay
$14.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
A gypsy reads Hannah's palm and says she will come in to a lot of money. But beware. Money has unpredictable powers Fortune-telling, that's all just a bit of fun, isn't it? But then Hannah's family does win the lottery. Six million dollars. Did you hear that? Six Million Dollars!!!!!! Life is going to b ...Show more
0 - 9 of 10