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Gone to the Woods: A True Story of Growing up in the Wild by Gary Paulsen
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
From the author of the bestselling Hatchet comes a true story of high-stakes wilderness survival! If not for his eight-hundred-mile journey from the busy Chicago city to a captivating Minnesotan farm aged five, there never would have been a Hatchet. Without the encouragement of the librarian who handed ...Show more
War Spy (My Story) by Jim Eldridge
$18.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: My Story | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
Paul Leland is a 13-year-old boy living in rural France. He has been living under Nazi occupation since 1940. Working with the Resistance cell in his village, Paul is a crucial figure in the 'escape route' for allied POWs and agents.
The Death: The Horror of the Plague by Ananda Braxton-Smith
$22.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: Drum
It is the fourteenth century. Europe and China are suffering an outbreak of an unpredictable disease. It sweeps through the population like wildfire. The symptoms are horrific. It kills weak and strong, young and old. It is known by many names. The Plague. The Black Death. The Pestilence. Why did it hap ...Show more
The World Within: A Novel of Emily Bronte by Jane Eagland
$25.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
The most mysterious Bronte sister steps into the light in this must-read novel for fans of "Wuthering Heights" and "Jane Eyre." Emily Bronte loves her sisters, responsible Charlotte and quiet Anne, and her brother, tempestuous Branwell. She loves the moors that stretch all around the little village of H ...Show more
Titanic: April 1912 (Survivors) by Kathleen Duey
$12.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: Survivors
Will two kids escape the "Titanic," the world's most famous sinking ship? Find out in this gripping historical fiction, part of the Survivor series. Gavin Reilly is working in the "Titanic"'s galley to earn his passage from Ireland to America. He knows when he finally joins his brother in New York they' ...Show more
No Ordinary Day (The Best Day of My Life US Edition) by Deborah Ellis
$24.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
Even though Valli spends her days picking coal and fighting with her cousins, life in the coal town of Jharia, India, is the only life she knows. She's filled with terror when she glimpses the monsters living on the other side of the train tracks -- the lepers. When Valli discovers that her "aunt" is a ...Show more
Zulu War (My Story) by Vince Cross
$19.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: My Story | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
The diary of Jabulani is set in Africa during the Zulu wars of the late 19th century.
Plagues and Federation: the Diary of Kitty Barnes, the Rocks, Sydney, 1900 (My Story) by Vashti Farrer
$20.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: My Story
The year 1900 was a momentous one for Kitty Barnes. Bubonic plague, the Black Death, was killing large numbers of people; the country was on the verge of becoming a federation; Kitty's brother was in Africa fighting in the Boer War; and Kitty was finding herself somewhat attracted to Reggie, the boy dow ...Show more
Little Warrior by Giuseppe Catozzella
$35.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
A heartbreaking novel, inspired by a true story, about a Somali girl who is willing to sacrifice everything to fulfill her dream of becoming a champion runner. Little Warrior is based on the life of Samia Omar, a girl who grows up in war-torn Somalia determined to be a world-class sprinter. She sleeps w ...Show more
True Stories of D-Day by Henry Brook
$15.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
This fascinating book tells the stories of the real-life heroes involved of a single day that changed the face of modern history, 6 June 1944 - D-day, the allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Normandy. Millions were caught up in the struggle for the Normandy. This book focuses on the bravery of a few indivi ...Show more
Canterbury Quake: Christchurch, 2010-11 (My New Zealand Story) by Desna Wallace
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Anyone would think Maddy's world had crumbled when she didn't get a cell phone for her eleventh birthday. But Maddy soon has far more important things to worry about. In the dark of night, with a terrifying rumble and a deafening roar, the world turns upside down! Suddenly, words like 'liquefaction', 'a ...Show more
The Mine's Afire! The Journal of Tommy Carter, Brunnerton, 1896 (My New Zealand Story) by Susan Battye
$19.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
This fictional diary records the tragedy, heroism and bitter aftermath of the worst industrial disaster in New Zealand's history - the Brunner Mine Disaster of 1896. The son of a coalminer from Lancashire who is working in the Brunner mine, Tommy is a typical boy living in the West Coast mining communit ...Show more