The Pavlova Story: A Slice of New Zealand's Culinary History by Helen Leach
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen) | Reading Level: Very Good
While Australians and New Zealanders have long debated which country invented the pavlova (a large meringue dessert cake said to emulate the lightness of the famous ballerina, Anna Pavlova), the real story of the ballerina's visit to the Antipodes and the emergence of three different pavlovas was neglec ...Show more
The Tiger's Apprentice (#1) by Laurence Yep
$16.99 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen) | Series: Tiger's Apprentice
Tom Lee's life changes forever the day he meets a talking tiger named Mr. Hu and discovers that he has magical powers and great responsibilities that he never imagined. Despite his doubts and fears, Tom joins Mr. Hu's ragtag band of creatures in their fight to keep an ancient talisman out of the hands o ...Show more
Hilda and the Nowhere Space (Netflix TI Hilda #3) by Stephen Davies, Luke Pearson
$19.00 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen) | Series: Hilda TV Tie In
Meet Hilda - explorer, adventurer, avid sketchbook-keeper and friend to every creature in the valley! Well ... almost every creature. We rejoin our favourite blue-haired heroine to find her warding off the nightmarish Marra, rescuing weather spirits and searching for the elusive black hound ... and she' ...Show more
Gothic NZ: The Darker Side of Kiwi Culture by Misha Kavka (ed.); Jennifer Lawn (ed.) Mary Paul (ed.)
$39.95 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen) | Reading Level: very good
Contemporary creative writers, intellectuals, photographers, painters and other artists have all contributed to this volume exploring the idea of 'gothic' in New Zealand culture. From Martin Edmond's abandoned houses, to Ian Lochhead's Victorian corrugated iron structures, to Otis Frizzell's tattoos, fr ...Show more
A Fish in the Swim of the World by Ben Brown
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen) | Reading Level: Very Good
‘This is a book of memories. Some of them are my own. Some of them belong to others. They are as true and as fallible as any memories — distorted by time and distance and a writer’s choice of words…’ Ben Brown writes of that quintessentially New Zealand way of living that may not change the world or eve ...Show more
Facing the Music: Charles Baeyertz and The Triad by Joanna Woods
$45.00 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen) | Reading Level: good-very good
The Triad was founded in 1893 and ran into the late 1920s. For its first twenty-two years it was published in New Zealand, but in 1915 publication was transferred to Sydney where it was re-launched as an Australasian magazine. The magazine offered well-informed coverage of cultural activities in New Zea ...Show more
A Different Land by Paul Jennings
$17.00 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen) | Series: Different
A story of new beginnings in a new land, and a surprising, heartwarming companion to A Different Boy and A Different Dog. Christopher is twelve thousand miles from home. The pub has a dirt floor and the owner is as rough as guts. The forest hides snakes, feral pigs and a dark secret. Mysterious, bold an ...Show more
More from Black Beauty's Family by Christine Pullein-Thompson
$16.99 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen)
This volume contains three more stories of Black Beauty's relations: Nightshade, Black Romany and Blossom.
I Am Malala (Teen Edition) by Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen) | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai ref ...Show more
Kiwitown's Port : The Story of Oamaru's Harbour by Gavin McLean
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen) | Reading Level: Near Fine
Colonial New Zealand depended on sea transport, every major or aspiring centre had to have a port, hopefully loading cargo on a 'Home boat. This book traces the history of one such port into the twenty-first century. "Today's heritage object is yesterday's developer's dream."
The Tattooist of Auschwitz - YA Edition by Heather Morris
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen)
I tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on my heart. In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most po ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: Read John Boyne's powerful classic ahead of the sequel ALL THE BROKEN PLACES by John Boyne
$9.99 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen) | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone.' Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-With' ...Show more