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A Remarkable Ear by Anne Fine
15.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
Beloved and award-winning author Anne Fine returns with a touching, musical story of patience, practice and courage.Everyone's always telling Will to stop making so much noise. That is, until he meets music teacher Mr Brand. He thinks Will's not just noisy but that he has a gift and must learn to play t ...Show more
Back on Weird Street by Anne Fine
19.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: Weird Street
Asim, Laila and Tom like nothing more than spooking each other out with tales of the unexpected. This summer they're back with three more stories to chill you to the bone. Can your dreams really grant you fortunes and riches? What lurks in the shadows of Number 17? And is Grandma's house really haunted, ...Show more
Be Nice to Aunt Emma by Anne Fine
19.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
Kindness is key in this funny new family drama from perennial bestseller and award-winning author Anne Fine.
Flights of Fancy Anthology by Quentin Blake, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo
19.00 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
Quentin Blake – Anne Fine – Michael Morpurgo – Jacqueline Wilson – Michael Rosen – Anthony Browne – Julia Donaldson – Malorie Blackman – Chris Riddell – Lauren ChildThe exceptional talents behind some of the nation's best-loved books – from The Gruffalo to The BFG, We're Going on a Bear Hunt to the Char ...Show more
Flour Babies by Anne Fine
18.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Flour Babies by Anne Fine, won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award in 1992. When the annual school science fair comes round, Mr Cartwright's class don't get to work on the Soap Factory, the Maggot Farm or the Exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babi ...Show more
Gnomes Gnomes Gnomes! by Anne Fine
19.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: 4u2read
Sam loves making gnomes out of clay. Dozens and dozens and dozens of gnomes, living huddled together out in the shed. But when Sam's mum suddenly needs that space, she says the gnomes will have to go. And so Sam plans a send-off for his little clay friends - a send-off that turns into a night the family ...Show more
How Brave is That? by Anne Fine
19.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: 4u2read
Tom wants to join the army, but he has to pass his exams first! When he turns up without proper uniform on exam day, strict Mrs Dell threatens to send him home. There are spare clothes available, but is Tom brave enough to face the exam hall - in a skirt? Touching comedy for low ability readers. Particu ...Show more
Into the Bin (and out again) by Anne Fine
19.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: 4u2read
Mr. Frost's classroom is always in a mess, and now his class are on a mission to send all the things they don't need off to a charity shop, including the rubbish bin that falls over at the slightest touch! From books to old toys, they bring in all sorts of items to send away in the bin, but little do th ...Show more
Jamie and Angus Forever by Anne Fine
15.00 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction
A delightful collection of stories about Jamie and his toy highland bull from the former Children's Laureate, charmingly illustrated by celebrated artist Sam Usher. As best friends should, Jamie and Angus share everything. Join them as they have fun at their birthday party, think up some new ways to cr ...Show more
Madame Doubtfire (Puffin Modern Classics) by Anne Fine
21.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Lydia, Christopher and Natalie are used to domestic turmoil. Their parents' divorce has not made family life any easier in either home. The children bounce to and from their volatile mother, Miranda, and their out-of-work actor father, Daniel. Then Miranda advertises for a cleaning lady who will look mi ...Show more
Next to Alice by Anne Fine
17.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
At first Ben doesn't want to sit next to Alice in the classroom. She's scary and tells him off for his squiggly drawing and poor handwriting. She even points out his bad table manners. But when Ben starts to take Alice's advice, he realises that she might have a point and discovers that sitting next to ...Show more
Out For The Count by Anne Fine
15.00 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction
Hugo wants a gerbil, but his dad says it's cruel to keep an animal in a cage. Hugo doesn't agree, and so Dad challenges him to spend a day cooped up in his room. The countdown has barely begun when Hugo starts to go stir-crazy. Warm, witty and wise to the impatience of childhood, this is Anne Fine on gr ...Show more