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Channel Kindness - Stories of Kindness and Community by Lady Gaga
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social Issues | Reading Level: near fine
Channel Kindness is a collection of fifty-one stories of kindness, bravery, and resilience from young people all over the world collected by the Born This Way Foundation and introduced by Lady Gaga. For Lady Gaga, kindness is the driving force behind everything she says and does. The quiet power of kind ...Show more
Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers by Michelle Obama
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
What's important is our story, our whole story, including those moments when we feel a little vulnerable . . . Michelle Robinson started life sharing a bedroom with her older brother Craig, in their family's upstairs apartment in her great-aunt's house. Her parents, Fraser and Marian, poured their love ...Show more
Captain Tom Moore (Little People Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography | Series: Little People, Big Dreams
From the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Captain Tom Moore, the veteran who raised over £30 million for the UK's National Health Service during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Once there was a humble boy from Yorkshire, England called Tom, who was born with h ...Show more
Searching for Charlie: In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC and Bar by Tom Scott
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham is the only combat soldier ever to win the Victoria Cross twice. His acts of bravery in World War II meant he probably deserved six more. The mystery of how a reserved, modest, slightly built farm valuer from New Zealand, could be so ferocious and fearless in battle has i ...Show more
Shining Land - Looking for Robin Hyde by Paula Morris; Haru Sameshima
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A UNIQUE STORY BOOK FOR GROWN-UPS. Shining Land brings together award-winning novelist Paula Morris and distinguished photographer Haru Sameshima. It is the second in the kōrero series of picture books edited by Lloyd Jones, written and made for grown-ups, and designed to showcase leading New Zealand w ...Show more
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
$17.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
A wickedly witty field guide to bookstore customers from the Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare. It does take all kinds. If you visit bookshops more often than the grocery store, you'll recognize the types. ...Show more
Maya Angelou (Little People, Big Dreams) by Lisbeth Kaiser
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography | Series: Little People, Big Dreams | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 1-2, Age 6-7
In this international bestseller from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Maya Angelou, the powerful speaker, writer, and civil rights activist. Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at age eight, she ...Show more
Frida Kahlo (Little People, Big Dreams) by Isabel Sanchez Vegara
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography | Series: Little People, Big Dreams | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 1-2, Age 6-7
In this international bestseller from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Frida Kahlo, the world-renowned painter. When Frida was a teenager, a terrible road accident changed her life forever. Unable to walk, she began painting from her bed. Her self-portraits ...Show more
Go Girl: A Storybook of Epic NZ Women by Barbara Else
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
GO GIRL is a collection of true stories about New Zealand women who have done extraordinary things. They strove for their goals. They weren't afraid to step up or speak out. They blazed a trail for others to follow. This book was written to show that YOU can join them! Just some of the amazing women who ...Show more
Anne Frank (Little People, Big Dreams) by Isabel Sanchez Vegara
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography | Series: Little People, Big Dreams
New in the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Anne Frank, the writer whose diary captured the hearts of the public. Anne Frank was born in Germany to a loving family. But when World War II broke out, Anne and her family had to hide in a secret annex in Amsterdam ...Show more
Prince (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
$23.00 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books | Series: Little People, Big Dreams
Part of the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Prince tells the inspiring story of this world-renowned singer-songwriter. In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Prince, one of the most iconic performers ...Show more
Pele (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography | Series: Little People, Big Dreams
In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Pelé, Brazil's all-time King of Soccer. With a sock full of rags for a ball, Pelé honed his skills in a poor neighborhood in Brazil. He believed that, one day, he would lead ...Show more