Cup Magic: Auckland/San Diego 1995 (My New Zealand Story) by Susan Battye
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Fictionalised diary of Mike Lucas whose parents are involved in Team New Zealand’s 1995 America’s Cup challenge in San Diego, where Peter Blake’s Black Magic boat wins the cup. Mike is sent to live with his grandparents in Takapuna, where he learns to sail, and eventually he travels to San Diego to supp ...Show more
Shaozhen (Through My Eyes: Natural Disaster Zones) by Wai Chim
19.00 NZD
Category: Senior Fiction | Series: Through My Eyes: Natural Disaster Zones
Shaozhen has no intention of staying in his remote Henan village and becoming another poor farmer: he'll finish school, and then, hopefully, work in a factory in one of the major cities, just like his father. But when Shaozhen returns home for the summer holidays, imagining days filled with nothing but ...Show more
Pirates Ate Rats (It's True!) by Heather Catchpole
15.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: It's True!
Did you know that 19 September is Talk Like a Pirate Day? Avast there, me hearties! From the Mediterranean sailors who kidnapped Julius Caesar to Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, this 27th book in the It's True! Series captures the lives of pirates. Often hungry, desperate and brutal, they had their own cod ...Show more
Harbour Bridge: Auckland, 1958-59 (My New Zealand Story) by Philippa Werry
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
The Auckland Harbour Bridge is under construction. Simon likes watching the bridge being built, and talking to his uncle and his mates about what's happening on site. Meanwhile, Simon's best friend Marty is obsessed with the Space Race and his younger sister Jo can't stop worrying about the fate of the ...Show more
The Globe (#2 The Science of Discworld) by Terry Pratchett; Ian Stewart; Jack Cohen
27.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: The Science of Discworld
The sequel to the bestselling Science of Discworld. The acclaimed Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the Wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot which was interleaved with a Cohen & Stewart non- ...Show more
The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure by Martin W Sandler
19.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
The dead of an Arctic winter. Whaling ships full of men, stranded in ice. Follow three rescuers in a race against time -- and all odds -- in this heartpounding true adventure. In 1897, whaling in the Arctic waters off Alaska's coast was as dangerous as it was lucrative. And in that particular year, wint ...Show more
Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery by William Miller
22.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
FREDERICK DOUGLASS: THE LAST DAY OF SLAVERY When a menacing overseer named Covey sees that Frederick is different from the others he sets out to 'break' him. But Frederick's response to Covey's brutality is a surprising act of courage and a timeless reminder that freedom is something not to be taken for ...Show more
I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives by Caitlin Alifirenka
28.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. Martin was lucky to even receive a pen-pal letter. There were only ten, and forty kids in his class. But he was the top student, so he got the first one. That letter was the beginning of a ...Show more
Stories of the First World War by Jim Eldridge
19.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: My Story
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.
The Science of Discworld (#1) by Terry Pratchett; Ian Stewart; Jack Cohen
27.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: The Science of Discworld
Not just another science book and not just another Discworld novella, The Science of Discworld is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard's-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe. Can Unseen University's eccentric wizards and orang ...Show more
Earthquake! Diary of Katie Bourke, Napier 1930-31 (My New Zealand Story) by Janine McVeagh
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
A story of daily life in the Depression years, culminating in the Napier earthquake. Napier in the 1930s was a time of going without. The story starts on the 25th of June, 1930 – a sad day in the Bourke household – the funeral of Katie’s father. This Catholic family must now survive with earnings from t ...Show more
Castaway: Disappointment Island, 1907 (My New Zealand Story) by Bill O'Brien
19.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Samuel, the keeper of this diary, is 13 when he signs on as a cabin boy aboard a vessel bound for Sydney. The barque Dundonald founders and sinks off Disappointment Island (part of the Auckland Islands group) in the ocean south of New Zealand on 6 March 1907. Fifteen survivors endure a harsh winter on t ...Show more