Usborne War Stories by Paul Dowswell
20.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: True Stories
Recounts some of the most famous tales of intrigue, heroism and adventure of the First and Second World Wars, providing young readers with an insight into the human stories behind both conflicts. This title includes stories that range from the dramatic deeds of soldiers, sailors and airmen on the front ...Show more
The Nazi Hunters by Neal Bascomb
21.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
A thrilling spy mission, a moving Holocaust story, and a first-class work of narrative nonfiction. In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view. Sixteen years later, an elite team of ...Show more
Hana's Suitcase Anniversary Edition: A true story by Karen Levine
22.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
In 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan, marked Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, and "Waisenkind"--the German word for orphan. In a suspenseful journey, Fumiko, the center's curator, searches for clues to young Hana and her family. Photos.
The Ghost of the Trenches and Other Stories by Taffy Thomas
16.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
As the Great War raged, and in its aftermath, people created hundreds of legends and stories round it, to speak of the sadness, the heroism, the deaths. Author Helen Watts and storyteller Taffy Thomas bring together this compelling, moving collection of ghost stories and mysteries from both sides of the ...Show more
Judgement Day (#4 The Science of Discworld) by Terry Pratchett; Ian Stewart; Jack Cohen
28.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: The Science of Discworld
The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with The Really Big Questions, Terry Pratchett's brilliant new Discworld story Judgement Day is annotated with very big footnotes (the interleaving chapters) by mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen, to bring y ...Show more
World War I: A Young Boy's Story (Survivors) by Stewart Ross
18.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories | Series: Survivors
It's 1914 and France is at war. Fourteen-year-old Pierre Clouet is desperate to help defeat the Germans, but he's too young to fight. The only way he could sign up is if he has false identity papers. So when the opportunity arises, Pierre seizes it with both hands. But the world of war is a gruesome one ...Show more
Rainbow Warrior: Auckland, 1985 (My New Zealand Story) by Sharon Holt
19.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | 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.
Hotaka (Through My Eyes: Natural Disaster Zones) by John Heffernan
19.00 NZD
Category: Senior Fiction | Series: Natural Disaster Zones (Through My Eyes)
When the tsunami strikes the Japanese seaside town of Omori-wan, the effects are utterly devastating. Three years later, much of what happened on that day is still a mystery. As Hotaka sets about convincing local performers to appear at the town's upcoming Memorial Concert, he finds himself haunted by m ...Show more
Lost in the Pacific, 1942 (HB) by Tod Olson
22.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
World War II, October 21, 1942. A B-17 bomber drones high over the Pacific Ocean, sending a desperate SOS into the air. The crew is carrying America's greatest living war hero on a secret mission deep into the battle zone. But the plane is lost, burning through its final gallons of fuel.At 1:30 p.m., th ...Show more
The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron
24.00 NZD
Category: Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories
DEATH PENALTY FOR ALL WHO GIVE AID TO A JEW.DEATH TO ALL WHO HARBOUR A JEW.DEATH TO ALL WHO FEED A JEW.DEATH TO ALL WHO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION TO A JEW.One knock at the door could be the death of them all...It is 1943, and for four years, sixteen-year-old Stefania Podg rska has been working for the Diam ...Show more
Gone to the Woods 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
Torn Apart - the Partition of India, 1947 by Swapna Haddow
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
A thrilling and moving account of the largest movement of people in history, telling both sides of the story through the voices of children at the heart of Partition. It's October 1947 and two young boysfind themselves thrown together during the dramatic changes of Partition. As the new India and Paki ...Show more