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Peppa Pig: Daddy Pig's Fun Run (First Storybook - Board Book) by Ladybird
$12.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Peppa Pig: My First Storybook | Reading Level: Children's - Kindergarten, Age 5-6
Daddy Pig's Fun Run is a delightful storybook based on the award-winning television character Peppa Pig. Huff, puff! Will Peppa Pig's Daddy make it to the finish line of the fun run and raise enough money to fix the school roof? Part of the My First Storybook range, Daddy Pig's Fun Run is a colourful an ...Show more
Pompeii: A Roman Girl's Diary, AD 78-79 (My Story) by Sue Reid
$18.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | Series: My Story | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
It's August AD 78 and Claudia is at the Forum in Pompeii. It's a day of strange encounters and even odder portents. When the ground shakes Claudia is convinced it is a bad omen. What does it all mean? And why is she so disturbed by Vesuvius, the great volcano that looms over the city.
Poor Man's Gold: the Diary of Reuben Radcliffe, Northland 1899-1900 (My NZ Story) by Kath Beattie
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | Series: My NZ Story
In the hard times of the late 1800s Reuben's father goes into debt in order to move the family to the Waipara district where he runs the local store. They stock everything from hardware to food, but the locals are not in a position to pay, and as Reuben's diary begins the family has been "booted out" by ...Show more
Pyramid of Secrets (My Story) by Jim Eldridge
$19.50 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: My Story | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
It's 2554BC, and Pharaoh Khafra is building a great pyramid at Giza to rival those built by his predecessors. He is also making plans for what will become one of the most famous and iconic monuments in history - the Sphinx. But Khafra has enemies and division in his workforce. Among the labourers in his ...Show more
Rainbow Warrior: Auckland, 1985 (My New Zealand Story) by Sharon Holt
$18.50 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: My New Zealand Story
In this My New Zealand Story, 13-year-old Rowan Webb gets herself a French penpal, and unwittingly becomes involved in an event that shocks not only the nation - but the whole world.
Refugee: The Diary of Ali Ismail, Woomera, 2001-2002 by Alan Sunderland
$21.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: My Australian Story
Ali Ismail is a refugee. In Afghanistan, the Taliban have murdered his father, and so Ali's uncle smuggles him out of the country to safety - to Australia. But instead of finding freedom, Ali is taken to a detention centre in the outback. For twelve long months he waits to find out if he will be allowed ...Show more
Sabotage! The Diary of Rowan Webb, Auckland, 1985 (My New Zealand Story) by Sharon Holt
$18.50 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | Series: My New Zealand Story
The Rainbow Warrior was the flag ship of the Greenpeace movement, when it was sunk by agents of the French Foreign Intelligence, while anchored in Auckland harbour, on the 10th of July 1985. In this story thirteen-year-old Rowan Webb gets herself a French penpal and unwittingly becomes involved in an ev ...Show more
Slave Girl (My Story) by Patricia C. McKissack
$19.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: My Story | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
In the slave quarters of Virginia's cruel plantations, Clotee's people pray for freedom. But when will it come? Clotee is a slave in a Virginia plantation. To her, freedom is the greatest word in the world. In the slave quarters, people pray for freedom, or as they call it 'heaven'. But when will it com ...Show more
Sophie's Secret War (My Story) by Jill Atkins
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: My Story | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
In 1939, the start of the Second World War, Sophie becomes a messenger for a Resistance group in Northern France. But as the German invaders overwhelm the British forces on the French coast, Sophie finds herself more deeply involved with the Resistance - in a dangerous plan to save a young Scottish sold ...Show more
Spy Smuggler: Paul Lelaud, France 1942-1944 (My Story) by Jim Eldridge
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: My Story S. | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
Paul Lelaud France 1942-1944: I couldn't see the four fires, but I could smell them, the scent of burning paraffin and wood coming thickly in waves of smoke across the field. My heart started thumping again. Surely if we could smell the fires, others could as well. A German patrol would smell them for s ...Show more
Stories of the First World War by Jim Eldridge
$19.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: My Story | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
The story of the war of 1914-1918 told through the experiences of twelve children and young people. From the efforts on the Home Front in both Britain and Germany, to the young soldiers in the trenches at the Western Front and from the horrors of Gallipoli to the naval battle of Jutland.
Suffragette by Carol Drinkwater
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: My Story S. | Reading Level: From 8 to 12
18th June, 1910 We marched from the Embankment to the Albert Hall. It was a glorious day. The sun shone warmly. Everyone was in good spirits. There were aristocrats, artists, even my mother looked happy. She who has been so opposed to my work with the WSPU. More than 10,000 people had rallied and there ...Show more